This leaflet and poster provide information on the risks of sudden infant death.  The leaflet has also been updated to highlight the risk of co-sleeping.

Finding support: a guide to crisis and suicide prevention services offering help, hope and support across Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan and Monaghan areas.

The Northern Ireland Bowel Cancer Screening Programme is introducing quantitative faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) as the primary bowel cancer screening test in January 2021. Quantitative FIT is more sensitive than the existing test, simpler to carry out and requires only one sample rather than three. In other parts of the UK introducing FIT has resulted in an increase in screening uptake.

The Northern Ireland Bowel Cancer Screening Programme introduced quantitative faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) as the primary bowel cancer screening test in January 2021. Quantitative FIT is more sensitive than the existing test.

This leaflet provides information on further investigations participants may require, including colonoscopy.

This report summarises data that is collected on the operation of the Northern Ireland Needle and Syringe Exchange Service (NSES). Each report relates to a twelve-month period. 

This guidance document has been developed to help Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals understand their role and responsibilities around the issue of Non-Therapeutic Male Circumcision (NTMC) for male children up to the age of 18

This leaflet provides information on harm reduction services in Northern Ireland. Harm reduction services aim to help and support people who use drugs, their families and the wider community. 

This factsheet discusses Legionnaires’ disease, an infection that can cause pneumonia. You can get this infection by inhaling droplets from contaminated water sources like air conditioning or hot tubs.

This leaflet highlights the importance of looking after your mental health and encourages people to take the five steps to wellbeing.

Read the latest issue of the PHA Update. The PHA Update serves as a regular communication channel, sharing news, progress reports, upcoming campaigns and initiatives, and developments across public health programmes.

This leaflet for pregnant women provides updated information on rubella and how to get vaccinated so it is not passed on during pregnancy.

Rubella, otherwise known as German measles, can be very serious for the unborn baby in the first thre

This leaflet is for pregnant women who have been diagnosed with syphilis. It provides information on the care pathway for these women, including referral to GUM, treatment and long-term protection for the baby.

This leaflet gives information on the blood tests that are normally offered and recommended at the first antenatal visit. These tests look for possible health problems that could affect the mother’s health and the health of the baby. Only o

In the first week after birth, all babies in Northern Ireland are now offered screening for six inherited metabolic disorders, congenital hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disorders. Most babies who are tested will not have an