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By Niall McCracken
Red flag cases can describe urgent and often live-saving procedures.
The figures include cancelled surgeries as well as procedures such as endoscopies.
The Department of Health (DoH) said it was deeply regrettable that any patient experiences postponed operations . The department is assured that every attempt will continue to be made to protect the most urgent surgery, and that postponed operations will be rescheduled as quickly as possible, said a DoH spokesperson. Trusts are keeping the position under daily review.
The department s latest figures show that between 18 March 2020 and 21 January 2021 there were 4,280 red flag cancer procedure cancellations across Northern Ireland s health trusts.
Dr Michael Watt probe converted to a public inquiry The Independent Neurological Inquiry into the activities of neurologist Dr Michael Watt has been converted to a public inquiry 15 December, 2020 01:00
Robin Swann said the inquiry s terms of reference had not substantively changed. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Presseye/PA Wire
THE inquiry centering on potential misdiagnoses by neurologist Dr Michael Watt has been converted to a public inquiry , Health Minister Robin Swann has said.
The Independent Neurological Inquiry (INI) had been established in 2018. However the minister informed the assembly of the change yesterday, saying that the inquiry s terms of reference have not substantively changed .
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1,000 children from Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, known as ‘COVID Warriors’ have had their levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies measured during the first wave of the pandemic and repeated again two months after initial recruitment.
The study is led by Dr Tom Waterfield from the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, in partnership with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Northern Ireland.
The aim of the study, which began in May and is ongoing, is to assess the number of children who have had COVID-19, the symptomatology of infection and the kinetics of the antibody response in children.