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World No Tobacco Day - Free pharmacy services at the heart of stop smoking support

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The Public Health Agency (PHA) is urging smokers to think about making use of the tailored, free, one-to-one support that community pharmacies can offer to help them stop smoking. The call comes on World No Tobacco Day as the agency highlights over 600 PHA-funded stop smoking services that are available free to current smokers across Northern Ireland.

Annual Vaccine Preventable Diseases Report for Northern Ireland 2018

The Annual Vaccine Preventable Diseases report for Northern Ireland. 2017 Data.

PHA helps celebrate ‘I Am Research’

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Each year the HSC R&D Division of the Public Health Agency, along with Health and Social Care (HSC) partners, celebrates the ‘I Am Research’ campaign to mark International Clinical Trials Day. This year the national campaign on 25 May is running in collaboration with additional celebrations around the NHS’s 70th birthday.

PHA promotes Take 5 steps to wellbeing in local council areas

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The Public Health Agency (PHA) has hosted an event to promote good emotional health and wellbeing amongst the residents in the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council and Mid and East Antrim Borough Council areas. The community planning event held in the Valley Leisure Centre recently encouraged residents to build the Take 5 steps to wellbeing into their everyday lives.

Safety Forum Awards

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Call for Applications to the 4th Northern Ireland HSC Safety Forum Awards 2018

Please see below for

(a) Poster that you can display in your organisation

(b) Submission guidance template

Applications close on Friday, 14 September 2018

Award Poster 2018 final.pptx

Building capacity and awareness

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Events

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Notifications of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs) 2018

Notification of Infectious Diseases (NOIDS) (Current weekly total of notifications of infectious diseases in the past four weeks along with the cumulative total for the current year compared with corresponding periods).

A-Level students urged to add MenACWY vaccine to the checklist ahead of university

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With exam season in full swing, the Public Health Agency (PHA) is urging everyone currently doing A-Levels to think next about getting the meningococcal ACWY vaccine ahead of starting university in September.

Expansion of community development approaches

In October 2016, a 10-year approach to transforming health and social care was launched by the Department of Health, in a document entitled Health and wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together. This ambitious plan, the Health and Social Care Transformation Programme, was the response to a report produced by an expert panel, led by Professor Rafael Bengoa. The panel had been tasked with considering the best configuration of health and social care services in Northern Ireland.

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