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An image showing Omagh New Hospital

Transforming Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland: A Recent History

An image showing Omagh New Hospital
Urgent care wing, Omagh New Hospital (image by Kenneth Allen and used under Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0)

Across the developed world, governments are striving to transform how they deliver and manage health and social care in a way which is fit for a modern context. That context includes the increasing demands placed on these services by ageing populations (often living with multi-morbidities), constrained resources, technological advances and rising patient expectations.

Northern Ireland has not been immune to these increased demands and to the realisation of the need for real strategic change in delivery and suitable governance of its health and social care services.

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