The Public Health Agency (PHA) Annual Business Plan sets out in more detail what the PHA will do to help achieve the outcomes identified in the PHA Corporate Plan. The Annual Business Plan 2017/18 is therefore the action plan for the first year of the PHA Corporate Plan 2017 –2021. As such it incorporates actions that the PHA will take in line with the draft Programme for Government, Making Life Better andCommunity Planning.

In 2012, the Public Health Agency and the Health and Social Care Board surveyed people across Northern Ireland to assess their experience of Mental Health services.  The ‘Your Experience Matters’ survey was based upon nine questions developed by service users and carers from each Trust area.  In addition, through providing additional ‘free text’, individual respondents could tell their story and describe their personal experience of using mental health services.

This regional pathway has been developed to ensure the care clinicians deliver to patients with alcohol use disorders is standardised and informed by evidence based best practice. These guidelines are designed to be available for regional use.

PHA Beyond 2016 – Public Health Agency Corporate Plan 2017-2021

Following public consultation and approval from the Department of Health, the Public Health Agency Corporate Plan 2017-2021 is now finalised and available below.

The Plan sets out the strategic direction for the Public Health Agency for the next four years.

These posters promote activities parents and children can do together to help development and encourage learning.

The eighth Director of Public Health (DPH) Annual Report focuses on health inequalities in Northern Ireland.

The health of people in Northern Ireland is improving. However, the improvements are not distributed equally across all areas of our population. Individuals living in the most deprived areas of the region are at higher risk of many health conditions and have shorter life expectancies than those in the least deprived areas. These inequalities in health are unfair, and are avoidable.

S.aureus surveillance report quarter January-March 2017

C.difficle surveillance report quarter January-March 2017

This factsheet provides information for health professionals on the Humanpapillomavirus(HPV) immunisation programme for young people aged 12-13 years.