How the lack of government is affecting healthcare in Northern Ireland

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Health, Northern Ireland, Writing

Two years since the devolved administration collapsed, Niamh Griffin finds “a huge hiatus in health,” including ballooning waiting lists, growing staff shortages, and stalled hospital reform

Northern Ireland has been without a government since the collapse of a coalition in January 2017; one doctor says wryly that, in the two years since, the profession has learnt that the only thing worse than having politicians is not having politicians.

This story ran in The BMJ in January 2019