The Southern Health and Social Care Trust (

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: ) provides health and social care services in

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. It runs

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Daisy Hill Hospital Daisy Hill Hospital is an acute teaching hospital located in Newry, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated on the Hospital Road and backs onto the A25 Camlough Road. It is managed by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust The S ...

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, Lurgan Hospital and

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as well as

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and St Luke's Hospital in

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. St Luke's provides mental health services.

emergency department is under threat because of difficulty in retaining staff. The trust serves an estimated population of 380,312 (June 2017 estimates).

History

The trust was established on 1 April 2007 when the Health and Social Services Trusts in the five local Government Districts of Newry & Mourne, Banbridge, Armagh, Craigavon and Dungannon were dissolved under the Dissolution Orders 2007. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th
Open Government Licence v3.0
© Crown copyright. The Trusts in the Southern Health and Social Services Board Area that were abolished were: * Craigavon Area (Lurgan/Portadown) Hospitals Trust * Craigavon and Banbridge Health and Social Services Trust * Armagh and Dungannon Health and Social Services Trust * Newry & Mourne Health and Social Services Trust The trust was allocated funds from the Waiting List Initiative in 2015-6 which was supposed to help them meet

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for surgery. They paid their surgical consultants almost £247,000 to do extra work, but it had no effect on the waiting lists.

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