Almost half of patients are waiting more than a year for appointments


WAITING times for health appointments and procedures have grown since the start of the pandemic, but the Health Minister has warned patients should expect to wait even longer as the crisis drags on. The stark reality of the impact Covid-19 has been having on our health service has been officially laid bare in the Department […]


Patients demand more from South West Acute Hospital


RISING numbers of patients in Fermanagh are being forced to make four hour round trips to Derry’s Altnagelvin Hospital for often routine appointments with hospital consultants – and many frustrated that they are not being seen at the new South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen.