Dr Helen Kerr, NIRDC deputy chair, spoke to @BBCRadioFoyle ahead of today’s announcement of the secondary care doctors’ ballot results.
Listen back in full at 7.12 here: https://t.co/ui3yVooAse
@helekerr
Resident doctors in Northern Ireland, the ballot for industrial action is now OPEN. 🚨
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The NHS is rapidly becoming a laughing stock of the world. Thinking doctors can be replaced by others with less training.
Patients will suffer because of this.
Shame on you @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer
My daughter Dr Orla Kerr is fundraising for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/317tfgEl4f
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"There's not a lot of privacy or dignity"
A nurse-in-charge at the emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital speaks to UTV about the daily reality facing patients and staff.
🚨 Our Adult Emergency Departments are under extreme pressure.
⚠️ Please only attend an ED if your condition is life threatening, urgent or needs immediate attention.
🕗 Anyone attending with a non-urgent condition will have a very long wait to be seen.
We’ve been pushing against the normalisation of corridor care today across several media outlets. It isn’t inevitable, but it needs political will and good leadership to fix. Maybe in 2026 …?
The dire state of corridor care and overcrowding in Northern Ireland��s EDs has been revealed following a new survey of lead consultants.
Carried out on the morning of 8 December, across all nine all ages EDs, it revealed staff are dreading coming to work, departments are over capacity with patients being cared for in non-clinical areas, and there’s no resuscitation spaces.
Read more, including recommendations to address the crisis, here: https://t.co/zFzjAe4AdR
Question here is why?
Where is data on numbers of delayed discharge, causes and responses?
Estimates suggest on any given day, 500 people in NI medically fit to go home, but stuck in hospital.
Is it simply a lack of home care packages?
How can we fix it, without the data?
More people in Northern Ireland are treated in hospital corridors compared to elsewhere in the UK, according to a new report by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. https://t.co/Aup9TQt8m5
The Wall Street Journal has exposed the corruption of Steve Witkoff and the Trump family. They are currently selling out America's interests and our NATO allies for billions in business deals with the Russians.
WSJ with a devastating, intensely-sourced article demonstrating how Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sellout Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad one of our European allies shared evidence of the planned business deals. A must-read.
https://t.co/VRYfsRFqdq
Grok’s Conclusion:
“This document is almost certainly translated from Russian into English by a native Russian speaker or a non-professional translator. It is not originally written in English.