Mental health strategy
Find out how the PHA is working with partners to promote positive mental health and wellbeing, prevent mental ill health and reduce mental health inequalities across Northern Ireland.
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Active surveillance
Health Protection Situational Awareness bulletinPublished weekly — the latest data on respiratory illness, antimicrobial resistance and vaccination coverage.
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Report a notifiable disease
Notify the PHA Duty Room of suspected or confirmed cases. Urgent out-of-hours enquiries use the on-call rota.
Nursing and midwifery
Professional leadership, practice guidance and workforce planning across every care setting.
- Nursing by setting
- Community care nursing
District nursing · specialist community teams - Primary care nursing
General practice nursing - Public health nursing
Health visiting · school nursing - Mental health and learning disability services
Nursing across MH and LD services
- Community care nursing
- Practice and workforce
- Nurse prescribing
Non-medical prescribing guidance - Delivering Care
Nursing and midwifery staffing framework - Training and professional development
CPD · e-learning
- Nurse prescribing
- Midwifery and maternity
- Continuity of Midwifery Carer
Model of care and implementation - Online antenatal and postnatal education classes
Share with parents-to-be - Maternal and child health
Antenatal · health visiting
- Continuity of Midwifery Carer
Browse by area
Guidance, data and tools for all professionals and partners.
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Guidance and protocols
Care pathways, prevention and service guidance- Vaccination and immunisation
Schedules · cold chain · VMS - Infectious disease guidance
Case management · IPC - COVID-19
Guidance · testing · vaccination - Screening programmes
NIPE · CCH · bloodspot · AAA - Eye health and safety
Eye care services · eye safety - Sexual health
STI · PrEP · contraception - Harm reduction services for people who use drugs
Needle and syringe exchange · naloxone - Environmental health
Water · air quality · CO
- Vaccination and immunisation
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Data, research and intelligence
Statistics, surveillance and access to public health data- Health surveillance
HPSA · AMR · NOIDs · NI population health statistics - Health registries
Registers held or supported by PHA - Data access and requests
Data requests · FOI
- Health surveillance
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Campaign planning and implementation
Co-deliver behaviour change campaigns with PHA- Campaign toolkits
Smoking in Private Vehicles · Making healthier choices - Request campaign support (Missing)
Partner briefing form
- Campaign toolkits
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Quality, standards and governance
Professional standards, improvement and statutory reporting- Professional medical issues
Appraisal · revalidation · medical leadership - Service development and improvement
Quality improvement · service redesign
- Professional medical issues
Useful links
- Regulators and professional bodies
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- General Medical Council
- Royal College of Nursing NI
- Royal College of Midwives
- Northern Ireland health and social care
- Department of Health NI
- NIPEC
- HSC Clinical Education Centre
- RQIA
- UK Public Health
- UK Health Security Agency
- NICE
- Green Book (immunisation)
Working with PHA
Partnership, commissioning and updates for partners
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Our professional services
Health Protection, Service Development and Screening, Nursing and Allied Health Professions
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How to work with us
Partnership, commissioning, grants and procurement routes
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Professional news and updates
PHA Update newsletter, briefings and alerts for partners
Need support not listed here?
The PHA professional helpdesk is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For urgent health protection enquiries outside office hours, use the on-call rota.