Transmit: Health protection service bulletin. 2011: Issue 2

The second edition of Transmit for 2011 leads with an update from the blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections team. This includes information on the move to add hepatitis B to the Northern Ireland Hepatitis C Managed Clinical Network (MCN). There is an update on migrant health, as well as advice on hepatitis B antigens and what to do in the events of sharps injuries.

This edition also provides a graphical summary of hepatitis C reports in Northern Ireland during 2010, and the most recent statistics on food borne and gastrointestinal tract infections.

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

Investing for Health is the cross-departmental public health strategy, published in 2002. It focuses on tackling the wide range of complex and inter-related factors that can impact on the health of the population. The strategy is based upon the recognition that the inequalities, which exist in health between rich and poor are widening and argues that the wider determinants of health can be addressed by integrated interventions and a coordinated approach between all sectors.

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

Summary of research to be presented -

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