Western Health and Social Care Trust

A PORTION of the former Fort George British army barracks site in Derry has been sold to the Western Health Trust for development as a health and care centre.

HEALTH trusts in the north have experienced a weekend of emergency department pressures, with appeals made for people not to attend unless seriously ill.

Not surprisingly there has been anger, dismay, fear and confusion since it was announced by the Western Health and Social Care Trust that emergency general surgery was to be removed from South-West Acute Hospital (SWAH).

STAFF at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen have faced a weekend of pressure due to high demand at its emergency department, prompting a plea for people not to attend without serious conditions.

Health chiefs in the north west have suspended all visiting at hospitals and care facilities in the Western trust due to rising Covid-19 rates.

THE Belfast trust last night called for all available nursing staff to help out due to facing "extreme pressure".

POLICE cordoned off a car in the grounds of Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry yesterday evening.

IRELAND’S only life-saving breast milk bank has put out a crisis call for volunteers as if faces what it calls an 'exceptional shortage'.

TWO health trusts applied to claim for biomass boilers installed under the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.

AN MLA has called for a dedicated medical school in the north west after it emerged £13m was spent on locum doctors in the area last year.