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.

HSCB/PHA Draft Commissioning Plan 2011/2012

The draft Commissioning Plan was approved by the boards of the HSCB and PHA on Thursday 30 June 2011 for onward transmission to the DHSSPS for Ministerial consideration.

Further refinement of the draft plan will take place in July and early August with a view to bringing a final draft plan to the August board meetings of the HSCB and PHA.

A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research

The Academy's review, 'A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research' was published in January 2011. The report was prepared by a working group, chaired by Professor Sir Michael Rawlins FMedSci, convened in response to an invitation from Government to review the regulation and governance of UK health research involving human participants, their tissue or their data.

Northern Ireland Cervical Screening programme - Annual report and statistical bulletin 2009-2010

This report refers to the period 2009/2010.

During the reporting period, eligible women in Northern Ireland, aged 20-64, were invited for cervical screening every five years. The aim of the programme is to detect abnormalities in cervical cells that could, if left untreated, develop into cancer.

The screening programme consists of three main operational elements:

  • Call and recall
  • Cervical cytology
  • Colposcopy
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