Campaigners hit the streets to take the sting out of waiting

Issued on behalf of NHS Blood & Transplant Belfast residents were kept entertained during yesterday’s morning commute and throughout the day as part of activity for National Transplant Week 2011. This was to highlight that over 2001 people in Northern Ireland are waiting for an organ transplant2. NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) and Health & Social Care NI (HSCNI) teams hit the streets with entertainers including Joby Fox, singer & songwriter, and pupils from Newtownards-based Pauline Walker Dance & Stage School.

Conference on minority ethnic health and wellbeing issues in Northern Ireland

Conference on minority ethnic health and wellbeing issues in Northern Ireland
Wednesday 12 October 2011
King’s Hall, Balmoral, Belfast

All day event of presentations and workshops highlighting local good practice as well as learning from elsewhere across the UK.
Topics: Health improvement and protection; welcome and one stop services; mental health; children’s issues; access to services.

PHA research funding – helps develop a new ‘celtic gene’ drug for cystic fibrosis

The international research co-led by Queen’s University, Belfast, that has developed a radical new treatment for cystic fibrosis was enabled by significant research infrastructure investment from Health and Social Care Research and Development (HSC R&D), a division of the Public Health Agency (PHA). The new drug, a landmark achievement, will benefit people who have the ‘celtic gene’, a genetic mutation which is particularly common in Ireland.

Putting a health inequalities focus on the Northern Ireland cardiovascular service framework

The PHA, supported by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) and other agencies and individuals, has completed a health impact assessment (HIA) on the Cardiovascular Service Framework (CVSFW) for Northern Ireland.

The CVSFW is the first in a series of service frameworks developed in Northern Ireland to guide HSC provision from prevention and health improvement over early intervention in communities and general practice into hospital and other institutional settings towards rehabilitation, palliative care and end of life.

What are you waiting for? Sign up this Transplant Awareness Week

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is supporting this year’s National Transplant Awareness Week, which runs from 4-10 July with the theme ‘What are you waiting for?’ Everyday people complain about waiting for buses or waiting in a queue for lunch, but what if you were waiting for something that your life depended on… like an organ? This Transplant Awareness Week aims to increase the understanding of organ donation and the issues that surround it by focusing on how long people are currently waiting to receive a transplant.
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