Muckamore Abbey Hospital
2024 in review: Health
Industrial action, racist attacks on health workers and the ‘omnishambles’ of a new maternity hospital in Belfast all made the headlines in 2024.
Health minister backs plans for statutory duty of candour
The Alliance motion said the legislation was not about criminalising mistakes, but preventing cover ups in the health service.
Concerns raised over failure to call former health ministers to Muckamore Abbey inquiry
Launched in 2021, the inquiry is now reaching its final stages
Muckamore Abbey Hospital closure postponed
Facility at centre of public inquiry and UK’s largest police probe into vulnerable patient abuse had been due to close this month
Muckamore treatment concerns 'ignored', public inquiry hears
The sister of a Muckamore Abbey patient has told a public inquiry how she was ignored when she raised concerns about his treatment.
Former Muckamore patient felt treatment was complete 'a long time before I left', inquiry told
A former patient at Muckamore Abbey has told the inquiry into abuse at the Antrim mental health facility that his treatment was complete "a long time before" he was discharged after 11 years.
Man (59) becomes 37th person to be arrested over Muckamore Abbey Hospital probe
The investigation started in 2017 over complaints about the treatment of patient with learning difficulties