SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said the decision to transfer vasectomy services to primary care, allowing GPs to conduct the…
Health Minister Robin Swann
Health unions to ballot members on new pay offer
Health unions are to ballot members in the North of Ireland on a fresh pay offer. The proposed deal would…
Durkan: Vital review into travel support for parents of sick children put on hold
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan has expressed his disappointment that efforts to expand travel support for parents of sick children…
Durkan: Suicides rising yet no funding for prevention strategy
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan has expressed serious concern following reports that deaths from suicide in the North of Ireland…
Durkan: Over 2,000 used cross border reimbursement scheme in a year
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan has expressed his disappointment that the Republic of Ireland Reimbursement healthcare scheme (ROIRS) has exhausted…
McLaughlin: DUP abandoning parents of young children in Derry
SDLP Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin has said that through their ongoing boycott of government, the DUP is abandoning the parents…
McLaughlin questions Minister on support for social work students
THE SDLP’s Derry Assembly representative Sinéad McLaughlin has written to the Health Minister Robin Swann to raise concerns about the…
Durkan: Direct payment uplift will help but more is needed
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said an increase in the rates of Self-Directed Support (SDS) rates for individuals in need…
Durkan: Loss of cross border scheme another blow to patients here
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan has expressed his concern after learning that all available funding for the cross border healthcare…
Durkan slams lack of funding to deliver crucial suicide prevention strategy
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has expressed his dismay that the roll out of a strategy to prevent suicides,…