Pressure on Stormont budgets has made preventing ill-health in Northern Ireland more difficult, the Director of Public Health (DPH) has said.

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In the DPH report, Dr Carolyn Harper said more should be invested but services were being affected by the pressure on spending.

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On Monday, the board authorized DPH staff to seek the permanent surrender of the licenses of the NECC principals, who are prohibited from practicing pharmacy throughout any appeals.

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Investigators for the state's DPH, working with their counterparts at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, "identified serious deficiencies and significant violations of pharmacy law and regulations that clearly placed the public's health at risk, " it said.

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