The Royal College of Nursing's Dolores McCormick said the health service had "fallen off the cliff edge"The state of Northern Ireland's health service is "beyond crisis", a Westminster Committee has heard.
The Royal College of Nursing's Dolores McCormick said the health service had "fallen off the cliff edge".She added that nurses striving to deliver care which they felt was not at the level they wanted was adding to "moral distress". He explained to the MPs that orthopaedic surgeons in Northern Ireland were seeing patients who they knew they would "never be able to give them the treatment that they are designed to give them".
He said that the GMC Report of October 2022 showed that the number one destination for doctors was Australia, with the Republic of Ireland in second place.Meanwhile, it has emerged that patients who fail to turn up for surgical day case procedures across Northern Ireland's five health trusts are costing the health service thousands of pounds.
The South Eastern Trust review showed that between April 2022 and January 2023, 7,755 people did not attend or cancelled new outpatient appointments on the day.On Monday, the Department of Health's Permanent Secretary, Peter May, outlined the financial pressures for the year ahead.
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