Key objectives

• Provide direct nursing care to children at home, thus minimising hospitalisation where appropriate;
• Provide child specific advice within educational or residential facilities;
• Teach parents, teachers and other carers to provide care and treatment to specific children through a comprehensive competency framework;
• Monitor a child’s progress and liaise with medical and other allied heal

The PHA Nursing and Allied Health Professions Directorate is responsible for:

• professional, service and public health issues relating to nursing, midwifery, health visiting and the Allied Health Professions (AHPs);
• the Health and Social Care Safety Forum;
• the Centre for Connected Health and Social Care.

Through the Directorate, the PHA provides: