Thank you, Allied Health Professions!
Michelle Tennyson, PHA Assistant Director, Allied Health Professions and Public Involvement
Health initiative to help people Work Well and Live Well
A Public Health Agency (PHA) workplace health and wellbeing service, which has been supporting workers throughout the coronavirus pandemic, has been officially launched by the Health Minister Robin Swann. ‘Work Well Live Well’ initially began on 1 March 2020 in order to support businesses to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of employees within the workplace. However, with the beginning of lockdown and most businesses requiring employees to work from home, the service adapted to meet the new and diverse needs of these organisations. Supporting the initiative Health Minister Robin Swann
Contact Tracing Service goes ‘digital first’
The Contact Tracing Service (CTS) is today taking a major step forward, moving to a ‘digital first’ model which will provide online self-service contact tracing for the majority of people who test positive. This innovative system will contact people with a positive test result by text message and provide them with a personal code which they can use at a dedicated website to input details of people with whom they were in recent close proximity. The identity of people using this service will be protected and will not be shared with those whose contact details they have provided. The information
Understanding COVID-19 and ethnicity
Dr Claire Neil and Maurice Meehan - Public Health Agency
New contact tracing text service goes live
The Public Health Agency (PHA) has introduced a new text alert model for close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases. This will strengthen the speed of the Contact Tracing Service (CTS) as case numbers, and the number of subsequent contacts, increases. Dr Gerry Waldron, Head of Health Protection at the PHA, said: “Contact tracing is an essential part of the Test, Trace and Protect programme. The model is kept under constant review and we have been working on developing an SMS text option to alert close contacts of confirmed cases as soon as their details are entered into our system, which means
Understanding case definitions and COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, we have been able to develop a greater understanding of the infection as a result of having more data generated by the rapid introduction of disease specific surveillance programmes.
Joint Public Health Annual Conference - call for abstracts
The Joint Public Health Annual Conference brings together a host of speakers working in public health and will take place over half a day. There will be a number of keynote speakers and various breakout sessions. Participate in the Joint Public Health Annual Conference by sharing your work on public health and COVID-19. The theme this year is COVID-19 - picking up the pieces. The focus will be on inequalities, such as ethnicity, deprivation, etc. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 16 October 2020. Please submit abstracts here.