Michael McBride

Ambulance handover delays and vaccinations key elements of winter health plan

NI chief medical officer rejects claim of ‘air of unreality’ at pandemic’s start

Health Minister and professional bodies give support to international colleagues

I wish we could have done more to support staff in pandemic, NI CMO says

Shielding should be kept in reserve, NI’s chief medical officer says

Initial messaging on shielding ‘could have been more nuanced’ – Covid inquiry

Covid inquiry chairwoman concerned at lack of health ethnic minority data in NI

Foster denies sectarianising Stormont’s response to Covid-19

Baroness Foster: Suggestion NI was ‘sleepwalking’ into pandemic is ‘offensive’

Ex-first minister Baroness Foster defends leadership during Covid-19 pandemic

Row over school closures reflected very badly on Executive, Foster tells inquiry

I felt like an observer – NI health minister on pandemic Cobra meeting

CMO said ministers should ‘hang their heads in shame’ during pandemic

Poots approach on Peter Corry drive-in concert was ‘unusual’, says CMO

CMO denies overreaching into department headed by Stormont leaders

NI less prepared for pandemic in 2020 than it was a decade earlier, inquiry told

Visit of Wuhan tourists to Larne ‘dispelled notion Covid could be contained’
A senior civil servant also said that Northern Ireland entered the pandemic with a ‘very tired’ health workforce.
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