Health Minister Edwin Poots tells the assembly there was no cover-up into allegations of abuse at Lissue House and Forster Green Hospital.

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No abuse claims cover-up – Poots

The overhaul of the NHS in England presents “huge opportunities” to the private sector, a health minister says.

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Row over minister’s NHS comments

Health Minister Edwin Poots is to set out controversial proposals for the future of Northern Ireland’s hospitals.

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Shake-up plans for NI hospitals

Germany’s health minister says the number of new E. coli infections from a deadly outbreak is dropping significantly.

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Worst of German E. coli ‘is over’

Vulnerable adults in care in England are to be given more protection from abuse, a health minister says.

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New adult care safeguards pledged

Health Minister Anne Milton has said that some residential streets should be closed to vehicles for periods of time, to allow children to play in them.

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VIDEO: Should traffic-free ‘play streets’ return?

Public health minister Anne Milton says people should wait until they are over 45 before getting into politics, making David Cameron too young to govern.

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Minister backs older politicians

British health officials announced on Sunday that homosexual men will soon be allowed to give blood, with one caveat: Only men who have not had sexual intercourse within the past 10 years are allowed to donate. England’s health minister Anne Milton…

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Britain Allows Gay Men to Donate Blood

The Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, has postponed plans for a new radiotherapy unit at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.

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Derry radiotherapy unit shelved

NI Employment Minister Danny Kennedy refuses to rule out a joint resignation with Health Minister Michael McGimpsey when the final budget is put to a formal vote in the Assembly.

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UUP ponders ministerial futures

The Health Minister will face questioning in the Assembly on Monday following the removal of a dental senior consultant from his job at Belfast’s Royal School of Dentistry.

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Assembly to discuss dentist move

Plans for a new radiotherapy unit in Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry are in jeopardy after the Health Minister announces there will be no money to staff it.

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‘No cash’ to run city cancer unit

The government is treating plans to establish a statutory register for practitioners of herbal medicine as a “priority”, health minister Earl Howe has said.

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Tighter regulation of herbal medicine ‘a priority’

The health minister defends an opt-out system for organ donation in Wales as she reveals the attorney general has fundemantal concerns.

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Hart defends organ donor opt-out

The health minister warns that even more families seeking care for elderly relatives will face disappointment, unless the Executive protects the social services budget.

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McGimpsey in warning over budget