Obesity remains a public health concern, and this complex chronic disease comes with risks of developing Type-2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers.
Tackling obesity requires a multi-faceted approach including Public Health Awareness, healthcare interventions and individual lifestyle changes.
In 2025, the Western, Belfast and Southern health trusts remained in the headlines over the future of the Southwest Acute Hospital, cultural and behavioural issues among staff in the Belfast Trust, also the cost of fixing unopened buildings namely the Maternity Hospital and existing ones chiefly the Acute mental health facility and there is the ongoing cervical smear scandal in the southern area.
Patients, staff, and the community in each area will demand that their respective complaints are resolved, in the Southern Trust the Ladies with Letters persist with their calls for a public inquiry into the cervical screening scandal.