Take simple steps to ‘Stay Well This Winter’

The Public Health Agency (PHA) and Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) are working together this winter to ensure that people prepare for the colder period. Their joint campaign, ‘Stay Well This Winter’, is urging people to look after themselves and take actions that will help them stay well during winter. Dr Carolyn Harper, Director of Public Health at the PHA, said: “Winter can affect people’s health, particularly those over 65 and people who have a long-term health condition.

Dopey Dick sparks a celebration of the river Foyle

The Our Future Foyle project ran a series of spellbinding events during the Halloween festival in Derry/Londonderry recently to promote the River Foyle as a site for recreation and healthy activities. Our Future Foyle is a partnership between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the Public Health Agency (PHA). The project aims to revitalise the river area with the local residents to create an uplifting and positive place for people to socialise and spend time in.

World Diabetes Day – knows the signs, reduce your risk

It is estimated that there are 10,000 people in Northern Ireland who have diabetes but don’t know it, in addition to the 88,000 adults living here with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, so the Public Health Agency (PHA) is using World Diabetes Day on 14 November to remind everyone of the importance of ensuring early detection of diabetes and getting treatment to reduce risk of serious complications.

Annual Quality Report 2015/2016

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.

Gastrointestinal Infections Annual Surveillance Report 2015

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. 

Decrease in new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections in Northern Ireland

The latest figures released by the Public Health Agency (PHA) show a 13% overall decrease in new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections. However, within that there was a small increase in new diagnoses of gonorrhoea and infectious syphilis during 2015. The ‘Sexually Transmitted Infection surveillance in Northern Ireland 2016: An analysis of data for the calendar year 2015’ report shows that in Northern Ireland Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinics in 2015: • 5,477 new STI diagnoses were made, a decrease of 13% compared with 2014 (6,292);

Sexually Transmitted Infection surveillance in Northern Ireland 2016 An analysis of data for the calendar year 2015

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 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

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