Nursing

Nursing (AHP) is part of the Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Directorate, led by Emily Roberts.

Areas of responsibility

• Public health, community nursing, primary care, child protection.
• Acute and children’s services, cancer and palliative care, quality and standards.
• Mental health, elderly care, learning disability and physical disability.
• Professional regulation, education, workforce planning and development, research and development activities.
• Providing advice on all matters relating to children's services; professional input into the development, monitoring and review of policy with regards to children's services; promoting the agenda for children across Northern Ireland in relation to policy, practice and education, and liaising closely with colleagues in developing children's services.
• Provision of health facility planning/nursing advice on all major capital/Priorities for Action (PfA) schemes in Northern Ireland.
• Business case analysis.
• Decontamination.
• Healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) in relation to the estate, clinical waste management and management of medical devices.
• Monitoring and investigation of adverse incidents reported to the Northern Ireland Adverse Incident Centre (NIAIC).
• Chair of GAIN Medical Devices Committee.
• Emergency planning.
• Providing leadership in digital health which includes the general use of information and communication technologies for managing data and information to enable the transformation of health and care services - improving patient care outcomes and experience, improving clinical safety, and increasing sustainability. 

Nursing leads