Belfast Transplant Games celebrate the ‘Gift of life’

**Press release produced by 1visionpr on behalf of TSUK** Dr Eddie Rooney, Chief Executive of the Public Health Agency and Chair of the local organising committee for the games welcomed the celebration and launch of the Westfield Health British Transplant Games at Stormont Buildings, Tuesday 24 May. The British Transplant Games will take place in Belfast from 4–7 August 2011. The games are a great way to celebrate the ‘Gift of life’ and provide an excellent opportunity to promote the NHS Organ Donation Register and encourage everyone in Northern Ireland to sign up.

Western Investing for Health Annual Report 2010-2011

Health effects of volcano ash cloud

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is advising that the plume of volcanic ash over the north Atlantic is not currently a risk to public health in Northern Ireland. The previous eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull Icelandic volcano in April 2010 had no impact on public health in the UK and a study of respiratory and related symptoms reported to GPs in the UK in 2010 showed no unusual increases during the period in which the volcanic dust from Iceland was present in the atmosphere.

NILS Antibiotic Research Seminar

17 June 2011, 10.30am to 12pm
Using the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study and Enhanced Prescribing Database to analyse socio-economic and demographic determinants of antibiotic prescribing patterns: lessons for antibiotic stewardship.
Conference Room 2, 3 and 4, 1st Floor, 12-22 Linenhall Street, Belfast

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Alcohol Seminar

Alcohol Seminar - Is it time to set a minimum unit price for alcohol?
Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey
June 14 2011
9am-12.45pm

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is holding this event to raise awareness of the impact of alcohol related harm and to encourage people to respond to the joint departmental consultation (DHSSPS and DSD) on the intorduction of a number of measures including minimum unit pricing to tackle problems associated with the availability of cheap alcohol in Northern Ireland.

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