Over 70 – what now? Looking after your breasts

This leaflet provide breast screening and breast awareness information to women over 70. Although women over 70 are not routinely invited for breast screening, they are encouraged to call the local unit to request breast screening every three years.

This leaflet provide breast screening and breast awareness information to women over 70. Although women over 70 are not routinely invited for breast screening, they are encouraged to call the local unit to request breast screening every three years.

New suicide prevention resource for clergy

A new handbook which gives advice on speaking about the issues of mental health and suicide during a religious service is being sent to clergy throughout Northern Ireland. The new booklet has been developed by partnership group ‘Flourish!’. The group includes Lighthouse Ireland, clergy from across the Christian churches in Northern Ireland, the Churches Community Work Alliance NI and the Public Health Agency (PHA).

Childhood flu vaccination now available

The Public Health Agency (PHA) has launched this year’s childhood flu vaccination programme, reminding parents how important it is that their child receives the vaccine, which will help protect against the disease and reduce its spread.​ The vaccine changes each year to cover the strains which are likely to be prevalent over the course of the flu season, so it’s important that children get immunised annually. All pre-school children aged two years and over on 1 September 2015, and those in primaries one to seven, will be offered the flu vaccine as part of the programme.

S. aureus surveillance quarterly report: April-June 2015

S. aureus surveillance quarterly report: April-June 2015

C. difficile surveillance quarterly report: April-June 2015

C. difficile surveillance quarterly report: April-June 2015

 

Advice on giving infant paracetamol after MenB vaccination

This factsheet offers advice on giving infant paracetamol after the meningitis B vaccination that is offered to infants aged 8 to 16 weeks.

This factsheet offers advice on giving infant paracetamol after  the meningitis B vaccination that is offered to infants aged two months and four months.

Evaluation of a Public Information Campaign on Organ Donation

In June 2013, the PHA surveyed the Northern Ireland public about their attitudes towards organ donation. At the same time, a process of stakeholder engagement took place with organ donation charities, those on the transplant waiting list, recipients, donor families, and Health and Social Care staff, to inform the direction of a public information campaign that would encourage organ donation in Northern Ireland.

Meningitis B vaccination programme gets under way

A new vaccine which helps prevent meningitis B is being offered to babies from today [1 September] as part of the routine childhood vaccination programme. The vaccine is available to babies born on or after 1 July 2015 and doses are given at two months old, four months old and a booster when the child is one year old. The Men B vaccine will help protect your baby against infection by meningococcal group B bacteria, which can cause meningitis and septicaemia (blood poisoning).
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