The Public Health Agency (PHA) are reminding parents about the importance of supervising hand washing among their children after visiting an open farm and handling farm animals, over the summer holidays.

*** FINALISED STRATEGY NOW AVAILABLE HERE *** The Public Health Agency (PHA) has developed a draft Corporate Strategy for the period 2011/2015, taking account of engagement and discussion with a range of stakeholders. The draft strategy has been approved by the PHA board to go out for a further period of engagement before it is finalised.

The Public Health Agency (PHA) and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust (SHSCT), along with Banbridge community midwives and local breastfeeding peer support mothers, hosted a celebration event on Wednesday 22 June to mark National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (NBAW) 2011.

Do you want to have a say in your health and social services? Your views on how that should happen are important, so take this chance to reply to the new consultation on how the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) can improve the way they work with local people and groups to improve services. Health and Social Care (HSC) organisations deliver services to people and communities that make a real difference to quality of life. People’s experiences and interactions with HSC are instrumental in shaping their health and social wellbeing.