• 09/03/2010
    Robinson backs No Smoking Day

    East Antrim MLA Ken Robinson has backed the theme of ';Break Free'; which offers a positive message to those smokers striving to break the habit of nicotine.

  • 04/03/2010
    Health visitors and school nurses at the heart of public health

    UUP Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has launched a five year plan to modernise health visiting and school nursing.

  • 03/03/2010
    New dental surgeries help fill the gap in Tyrone

    People throughout Tyrone will now have greater access to health service dentistry as three new practices open their doors.

  • 24/02/2010
    New £9million mental health facility

    Ulster Unionist Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has said that a new £9million adolescent mental health facility will make a real difference to young people.

  • 17/02/2010
    Grim truth of drug use cycle

    Ulster Unionist Youth Development officer Kenny Donaldson has reacted to the news that children as young as 11 are selling drugs on Northern Ireland's streets according to grim figures revealed recently in the press.

  • 02/02/2010
    Failed DUP motion nothing more than attack on the Health Service

    John McCallister MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Health Social Services and Public Safety has accused Simon Hamilton and the DUP of yet again attacking the Health Service by proposing a Motion on efficiency savings which was resoundedly rejected by all other Parties in the Assembly.

  • 28/01/2010
    Health must be exempt from cuts or we will all suffer

    Ulster Unionist health committee member John McCallister has said that the Health Minister's plea to the committee to help him protect vital services ';must be heard by the Executive and the Assembly';.

  • 27/01/2010
    Blood donation - the need is too great to ignore

    Ulster Unionist health spokesperson, John McCallister MLA, has joined UUP MLA for South Antrim, Danny Kinahan, in calling for a cultural shift around blood donation - ';the need is too great, and too close to home, to ignore';.

  • 22/01/2010
    Firework statistics show welcome decline

    Ulster Unionist member of the Assembly Health Committee, Sam Gardiner MLA has welcomed a 'significant' fall in the number of firework injuries in recent years.

  • 21/01/2010
    McGimpsey opens award-winning Health Centre

    Ulster Unionist Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, officially opened the award-winning £10million Knockbreda Health & Care Centre, today.