This book provides information on caring for children up to five years old and contact details for useful organisations. It is available to new parents resident in Northern Ireland through primary care services (antenatal clinics, GPs or health visitors).

PHA Annual Business Plan

The PHA's Business Plan sets out the key priorities and actions that will be progressed by the Public Health Agency (PHA) in each given financial year. The PHA believes that these actions will have the biggest impact on improving levels of health and social wellbeing, protecting the health of the community, and ensuring patients continue to receive high quality and safe treatment and care services. The last four business plans are available via the links below.

This factsheet encourages non-English speaking parents to talk to their children in their own language.

This factsheet highlights simple ideas to encourage speech in children around 4 to 5 years old.

This factsheet describes voice disorders such as 'hoarseness' in children and what parents can do to help their child with a voice problem.

This factsheet gives advice to parents on the use of dummies and their effect on a child's speech.

This factsheet outlines how parents can help their child speak more fluently, without stammering.

This factsheet describes how parents can help their child speak more clearly.

The Alcohol MOT is designed to support those working in primary care to carry out alcohol brief interventions. There is extensive evidence to show that primary care-based brief interventions are very effective at reducing drinking at both hazardous and harmful levels. The MOT enables patients to work out if they are drinking at hazardous or harmful levels, and is designed so that a practitioner can work through it with a patient, or a patient can work through them alone.

This factsheet describes the symptoms of tuberculosis, how it is caught, who is affected and how it is treated.