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Nurses from Altnagelvin Hospital are among the frontline healthcare staff joining picket lines as industrial action enters a third week.

Politicians from NI’s five main parties have gone head-to-head on issues like the crisis facing the health service in UTV’s election debate.

Trade unions rejected the Department of Health's 'final offer for this year' after talks on Thursday night.

A Newtownabbey woman is pleading with health chiefs to allow her immediate access to a specialist drug which could extend her life.

Union meetings with the Secretary of State amid the current health care crisis have been described as "positive".

Secretary of State Julian Smith says the current crisis in health care here is 'unacceptable'.

A nurses’ union has hit out over a warning from Trust chiefs about patient safety ahead of their industrial action on Tuesday.

There is a 'significant risk' to patient safety if industrial action in the health service continues at the current rate.

Thousands of patients are to be affected this week as appointments have been cancelled across the Belfast Trust & South Eastern Health Trust

The first wave of planned industrial action by health and social care workers is set to start on Monday.