This leaflet contains information on what you can say and do to help someone who may be thinking of suicide.

It highlights the warning signs, explains the feelings a suicidal person can have and provides a step-by-step guide to having a conversation and helping someone you’re worried about.

It also lists a number of support services for people having suicidal thoughts. 

The third Annual Quality Report of the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) and Public Health Agency (PHA), launched on 10 November 2016, highlights the HSCB and PHA commitment to ensuring safe, high quality services and putting patients, clients and their carers at the centre of everything we do. We continually look to adopt best practice, drive innovation and most importantly learn and improve when we do not meet the high standards that we have set for ourselves.

The Public Health Agency (PHA) has a lead role in protecting the population from infection and environmental hazards through a range of core functions including communicable disease surveillance and monitoring, operational support & advice, and education, training and research. 

This report aims to provide an overview of STI epidemiology in Northern Ireland by collating and analysing information from a number of sources. Although it reflects epidemiological trends over time, its main focus will be on data collected in 2015

This report focuses on the role of nurses in the care and support of older people and has been developed in partnership with Age NI. The work has seen the development of a co-design model of participation that can be used when working with key stakeholders including service users to review services.

The recommendations from this report include improvements in workforce, education and enhancing a vision for older people’s nursing including career pathways in a range of care settings.

'Now and the Future' is a consensus view of the framework required to develop and sustain the general practice nursing workforce in Northern Ireland.

The framework aims to provide guidance to support systems and processes that are required for the development of general practice nurses.

It's a reference tool for general practices to highlight key nursing issues, roles, competencies, teamwork and professional governance arrangements required to support nursing registration and practice in primary care.