Cancer and heart patients were told they were likely to have treatment delayed or cancelled due to the shortage.

If all had gone to plan, the first babies born in the new maternity hospital would be about to celebrate their ninth ...

A new issue with medical gas pipework at Belfast's long-delayed new maternity hospital has emerged, the Health Minister has ...

Food producers in Northern Ireland will have to add folic acid to non-wholemeal flour by law from 2026. The Department of ...

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said he has been made aware of a further “totally shocking” problem with Belfast’s new maternity hospital. Mr Nesbitt faced calls to share the information ...

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said he has been made aware of a further “totally shocking” problem with Belfast’s new ...

Mike Nesbitt has refused to support Stormont’s latest spending allocations, saying he “could not look health service workers in the eye” if it meant they were paid less than their ...

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Mike Nesbitt is to become the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) after party leader nominations closed on Friday. He was the only candidate who declared an interest in taking the role.

Once again, it’s an Ulster Unionist Health Minister taking a lone stand in the Executive. Mike Nesbitt says the budget reallocation this week has left him £100m short of what he needs for our ...

Mr Nesbitt became leader in 2012, but stepped down in 2017 Mike Nesbitt is to run to become Ulster Unionist leader, seven years after he first stood down from the position. Mr Nesbitt won a ...

Mike Nesbitt is an Ulster Unionist Party assembly member for Strangford It's a "fair deduction" that Strangford MLA Mike Nesbitt will be Northern Ireland's next health minister, the Ulster ...