An Armagh couple are under police investigation after the regulator found significant financial abuse of six vulnerable adults in care.

Stormont’s Health Minister Edwin Poots is taking legal advice on how to regulate Ireland’s first private abortion clinic.

An independent investigation is to take place into hospital outbreaks of a deadly infection that killed four babies in the North.

A health watchdog in the North today demanded improvements in hospital hygiene after inspections raised concerns over standards in five hospitals.

A drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre on the border has been forced to close its doors because it could not address health and fire safety concerns, it emerged tonight.