Blog post 04/06/2021Mark DayanProf. Deirdre Heenan
The waiting list for planned admission to hospital or a first outpatient appointment in Northern Ireland has reached almost 450,000, equivalent to almost a quarter of the population. Deirdre Heenan and Mark Dayan set out seven points of action for tackling the growing waiting list. This blog was ori...
Blog post 04/09/2020Prof. Deirdre HeenanMark Dayan
Rebuilding any health system after Covid-19 will be difficult, but it could be an even tougher task in Northern Ireland. Deirdre Heenan and Mark Dayan assess the impact of the pandemic on an already beleaguered health system, and argue that support and goodwill for the NHS over the past months must...
Blog post 30/01/2020Prof. Deirdre HeenanMark Dayan
While waiting times have struggled across the UK in recent times, the situation is much worse in Northern Ireland. Is there a way to turn things around? Deirdre Heenan and Mark Dayan give the expert view.
Report 10/07/2019Mark DayanProf. Deirdre Heenan
Three years after Rafael Bengoa’s blueprint for improving the Northern Irish health service, this report uses interviews with health service leaders in Northern Ireland as well as outside experts and clinicians to assess which factors are helping or hindering Northern Ireland's efforts to change i...
Press release 10/07/2019
A new report from the Nuffield Trust looks at which factors are helping or hindering change in Northern Ireland.
Blog post 06/02/2018Mark Dayan
With the implications of Brexit on the NHS unclear, nowhere is it felt more than in Northern Ireland, which shares a border with an EU member state. Mark Dayan explores what harder forms of Brexit might mean for staff, patients and funding in the Northern Irish health service, while also looking at...
Blog post 21/12/2017Nuffield Trust
With 2017 drawing to a close and the new year nearly upon us, for festive reading we asked 12 Nuffield Trust experts to each give a brief insight into what might happen in health and social care in 2018. So we’ve been making a list (and checking it twice) of what they told us. See you in the new y...
Blog post 17/10/2017Prof. Deirdre HeenanJohn Appleby
Deirdre Heenan and John Appleby look back at reviews of the health and care system in Northern Ireland, the need for reform and what it means for patients, and where we are now.
Press release 25/10/2016
Nigel Edwards comments on the Bengoa report into healthcare reform in Northern Ireland.
Blog post 23/06/2015Nuffield Trust
Hugh McCaughey, Chief Executive of the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland blogs about the great health challenges facing the country, and examines the options.