Stroke victims are to be diverted away from Daisy Hill hospital thanks to escalating pressures blamed on staff shortages, it has been announced.
The Southern Health Trust says it has taken the decision “on patient safety grounds” amid ongoing recruitment issues at the Newry hospital.
A number of senior medics have left the hospital, the Trust says. The news the day after Dr Tom Black told The Commons Northern Ireland Committee “we have simply do not have a enough doctors for patient need”.
