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Around a fifth of former patients of Belfast-based neurologist Dr Michael Watt received an “insecure diagnosis”, a review has found. Health Minister Robin Swann expressed his concern and issued an unreserved public apology to the patients for the distress caused. Speaking in the Stormont Assembly, Mr Swann outlined the findings of a review of a second cohort of Dr Watt’s former patients. Health Minister Robin Swann (Liam McBurney/PA) A third recall involving 209 former patients was announced by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday. Mr Swann said of the second cohort involving 927 patient...

Further 209 neurology patients of Dr Michael Watt recalled Consultant neurologist Dr Michael Watt 20 April, 2021 11:22 Belfast health trust has recalled a further 209 patients who were under the care of consultant neurologist Dr Michael Watt. The action was taken as part of a review following "safety concerns" about the work of Dr Watt, who was a consultant neurologist for the Belfast trust for more than 20 years and had extensive private clinics. He retired on medical grounds last year. The people recalled today are former patients of Dr Watt who were seen an...

JCVI has said the vaccine should then be offered to all aged 75 and over, before moving on to everyone aged 70 and over. At the same time the vaccine should be offered to clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients, as evidence suggests they are as at much risk of serious illness as people in their 70s. However, it has now emerged that the chief executives of the Belfast, South Eastern, Southern, Northern and Western trusts — Cathy Jack, Seamus McGoran, Shane Devlin, Jennifer Welsh, and Anne Kilgallen respectively — are among those who have received their first Pfizer jab. The trusts s...

BBC News By Louise Cullen image captionMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed in NI Military personnel are now on hospital wards in Northern Ireland to help alleviate the staffing pressures of the pandemic. The paramedic-grade equivalent staff have been drawn from different units across the UK, from all three services - the RAF, Royal Navy and Army. The medics arrived in NI on a military transport flight from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire earlier this week. They will take up nursing assistant roles in local hospitals. Eventually, more than 100 medically-trai...

Cancer patients will be offered surgery at any hospital in Northern Ireland in a bid to save lives, it has emerged.