Ulster confusion in food dye alert Health boards not informed on growing...

Belfast Telegraph;  February 25, 2005 ;     389 words ......handling of the crisis in Northern Ireland.The growing number of...over the issue.Half of Northern Ireland's health boards have not even been officially...around 60 schools in Northern Ireland have removed bottles...Michael Bell, of the Northern Ireland ...

A model for the mainland. (Northern Ireland's health spending)

The Economist (US);  March 26, 1988 ;     559 words ......already lavishly endowed with health care, by mainland standards. Northern Ireland spends nearly 10% of its...stopped inviting them. Health boards in Northern Ireland justify this apparent overprovision...inefficiencies, the structure of the Northern Irish NHS looks ...

Health: Boards and trusts to be slimmed down to seven

Belfast Telegraph;  November 22, 2005 ;     221 words ...Northern Ireland's four health boards and 18 trusts are expected...favour of seven sub-regional health agencies- one for each...make savings within the health service of up to [Pound...the Ambulance Trust - the Northern Ireland Ambulance Brigade - will...arrangement with ...

Slimming down our bureaucracy GOOD GOVERNANCE:Northern Ireland's...

Belfast Telegraph;  February 23, 2002 ;     365 words ......size of Yorkshire, Northern Ireland is vastly over...do we have the Northern Ireland Office, a local...boards and four health boards. Add to that the...bureaucrats. Of course, Northern Ireland is a very different...importantly, can Northern Ireland afford ...

Hospitals facing dramatic surgery ; Report recommends health boards be...

Belfast Telegraph;  June 20, 2001 ;     419 words ...NORTHERN Ireland's four health boards will be axed and the number of key hospitals slashed by almost...health boards would be replaced by a single body called the Northern Ireland Strategic Health and Social Services Authority. Trusts would...

Report reveals health boards on brink of collapse

Sunday Star-Times;  March 31, 2002 ;     621 words ......were told half the country's district health boards were so broke they would breach their...process. At the time four district health boards were in danger of breaching loans...Crown Financing Agency show the 21 health boards have taken out or inherited loans of...

Health boards unveil pounds 6m foster care plan.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  August 12, 2005 ;     360 words ...NORTHERN Ireland&s four health boards have devised a five-year...foster care services in Northern Ireland are currently under-funded...that so many children in Northern Ireland are not getting a stable...provided for foster care in Northern Ireland in ...

Move to make health boards elected fails

Evening Times;  February 1, 2007 ;     374 words ...GLASGOW MSP Bill Butler's attempt to make health boards more accountable has failed. The Executive...voted down plans for directlyelected health boards. MSPs voted by 64 votes to 55 to defeat...majority of members of Scotland's area health boards would be elected by the public. ...

MSP anger at health boards' elections veto

Evening Times;  October 25, 2006 ;     202 words ......heads of two of the country's NHS area health boards told MSPs they were opposed to plans...Clyde, who said councillors who sit on health boards already provided "democratic input...Mother's maternity hospital. He said: "Health boards have to be more accountable. I'm sorry...

(pounds) 6bn funding boost for Scots health boards; Record cash injection...

Evening Times;  January 10, 2004 ;     299 words ...Scotland's health boards are to receive a record (pounds...waiting times, the minister pledged. Health boards will receive (pounds) 5.966bn...be shared out between Scotland's health boards in line with a formula which takes...

NORTHWEST: Health boards aim to improve limb service

Belfast Telegraph;  January 26, 2001 ;     173 words ......survey aimed at improving the service they receive. The survey is a joint initiative between the four health boards in Northern Ireland and Musgrave Park Hospital which is the only hospital in the province which provides artificial limbs...

Call for health boards to sue cigarette firms Campaigner wants new legal...

Evening Times;  June 1, 2005 ;     382 words ......anti-smoking campaigner has called on health boards to sue tobacco companies in an attempt...cigarette manufacturers. She insisted health boards could bring money back into the NHS...case could win and Ms Moore called on health boards to make that challenge. She said...

Butler's bill for elected health boards backed

Evening Times;  October 10, 2005 ;     172 words ......Members' Bill that will ensure members of health boards are elected by the public. Mr Butler...the perception the public have that health boards don't listen to their views - and I...hopefully regain confidence in the way health boards carry out consultations." The bill...

Formula boost for health boards

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  September 28, 2007 ;     244 words ......distribute government funds between health boards. Arbuthnott, which takes into account...undetermined number of years so that health boards would not be deprived of funds. The...asked Holyrood's health committee and health boards for their views. Under Arbuthnott...

Health boards

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  June 3, 2006 ;     75 words ......Proposal to change the face of health boards in Scotland is to be scrutinised...Butler's bill for directly elected health boards. The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill is aimed at making health boards publicly accountable. It follows...