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Health in NI: Have there been nearly 100,000 attacks on healthcare staff in a decade?
19 June 2025
In a press release published on 28 May, SDLP MLA Colin McGrath said: “We are nearing 100,000 attacks on healthcare staff … there have been

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Health in NI: Are local MS rates some of the highest in the world?
21 May 2025
As part of its promotion for a new multiple sclerosis (MS) Research Hub, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) stated that: “Northern Ireland has one of the

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Health in NI: Are over 100,000 people here living with diabetes?
9 May 2025
In a debate in the Assembly on 29 April, DUP MLA Cheryl Brownlee claimed: “Almost 115,000 people here live with diabetes, and that number continues

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Health waiting lists in Northern Ireland: have consultant backlogs grown by almost 10% in a year?
9 October 2024
A Private Members’ Motion debated in the Assembly on 17 September stated: “That this Assembly acknowledges the deepening crisis engulfing the health service; believes current

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Are a significant number of health workers in Northern Ireland not originally from here?
5 September 2024
On 12 August, the Alliance Party published an “evidence paper” around immigration into Northern Ireland, which claimed: “…nearly 12,000 [immigrants] work in the Health and

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Did almost 1,500 people die in NI in one year because of long waits in A&E?
27 March 2024
In an interview published on 21 January in the Irish Times, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) Vice Chair in Northern Ireland Dr Russell

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Are over one in four people in NI on a hospital waiting list?
18 January 2024
On 30 November, in a party press release, Sinn Féin claimed that “more than 1 in 4 people here are waiting for an inpatient or