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Hepatitis B - factsheet for patients (English and 11 translations)
No full textFactsheet for patients who have tested positive for the hepatitis B virusThe factsheet is only available by contacting the Duty Room on 028 9032 1313
Sexually Transmitted Infection surveillance in Northern Ireland 2014
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In Northern Ireland Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinics in 2013
• New diagnoses of uncomplicated chlamydia increased by 1% ; 1,699 diagnoses in 2013 compared with 1,676 in 2012.
• New diagnoses of uncomplicated gonorrhoea increased by 19%; 537 in 2013 compared with 451in 2012.
• New diagnoses of genital herpes simplex (first episode) increased by 8%; 385 in 2013 compared with 357 in 2012.
• New diagnoses of genital warts (first episode) decreased by 9%; 1, 989 in 2013 compared with 2190 in 2012.
• New diagnoses of infectious syphilis increased by 3%; 72 in 2013 compared with �70 in 2012.
10,000 Voices annual report
No full textI am pleased to present the first annual report of the\u2710,000 Voices\u27 initiative. This initiative has been commissioned and funded by the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) and the Public Health Agency (PHA), to introduce a more patient focused approach to shaping the way services are delivered and commissioned. It provides a mechanism for patients not only to share their experience of the health services, both positive and negative, but also to affect and inform change
Belfast Active Travel Action Plan 2014-2020
No full textThe Belfast Strategic Partnership, which is led by the Public Health Agency, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and Belfast City Council, is launching the�Belfast Active Travel Action Plan 2014-2020 which aims to build a healthier city by encouraging people to incorporate walking and/or cycling into their daily travel.The travel plan aims to try to make Belfast a more vibrant city where people are healthy, fit, well-connected with one another, and use physical activity as part of their everyday lives
Assisted reproductive technology – IVF treatment in Ireland: A study of couples with successful outcomes
No full textHuman Fertility 17(3):165-9
This article describes the experiences of twelve Irish couples who had successful IVF treatment in Ireland. Irish Medical guidelines specify that IVF may only be used when no other treatment is likely to be effective. This article is based on data drawn from a longitudinal research study by Cotter (2009) which tells the stories of 34 couples who sought fertility treatment. Initially, the women assumed that they would become pregnant when they stopped using contraception. As a couple, it was the ‘right time’ for them to have a child - they were ready, socially and financially. For several months they were patient, hoping it would happen naturally. With envy and some despair they watched as their friends had babies. Infertility came as a shock to most of them. They were reluctant to talk about it to anyone, and over time their anxieties were accompanied by feelings of regret, stigma and social exclusion.
They finally sought medical treatment. The latter involved a series of diagnostic treatments, which eventually culminated in IVF which offered them a final chance of having a ‘child of their own’. While IVF can be clinically assessed in terms of cycle success rates, their stories showed treatment as a series of discoveries, as an extensive range of diagnostic tests and procedures helped to reveal to them where their problems might lie.
They described their treatments as a series of sequential ‘hurdles’ that they had to overcome, which further strengthened their resolve to try IVF. Much more knowledgeable at that stage, they embraced IVF as a final challenge with single minded dedication while drawing on all their psychological and biological resources to promote a successful outcome.
Of the 34 couples who took part in the study, twelve got pregnant. Unfortunately, two children died shortly after birth but eighteen babies survived (see Table I). The findings suggest that health policy should raise awareness of infertility, and advise women to become aware of it just as in the past, when health policy addressed contraception. Increased public knowledge would reduce the stigma attached to the inability to have a baby. In the Irish case, infertility diagnosis should be reviewed with a view to giving eligible couples earlier access to IVF.
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Hospital admission counts and rates for injuries in Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales
No full textNumber of hospital discharges and age-standardised discharge rates for emergency hospital admissions for injury by sex and type of injury for the following regions and year:Republic of Ireland 2006Northern Ireland 2006England 2006/07Scotland 2006/07Wales 2006 Numbers and rates are based on official hospital statistics from each region. All regions use International Classification of Disease (ICD) version 10 for hospital discharges in these years. Only emergency inpatient hospital spells with an ICD 10 code in the range S000-T739, T750-T759, T780-T789 (in any diagnostic position) and an ICD10 external cause code in the range V01-Y36 (in any diagnostic position) were included. A hospital spell is an unbroken period of time that a person spends as an inpatient in a hospital. The person may change consultant and/or specialty during a spell but is counted only once. See http://www.injuryobservatory.net/analysis-of-inpatient-admissions-data-f... for more details
Northern Ireland Firecode (PDF 2.4MB)
No full textNorthern Ireland Health Technical Memorandum 86 Part 2 Fire Risk Assessment in Healthcare Premise
Northern Ireland Firecode (PDF 126KB)
No full textNIHTM 85: Fire precautions in existing healthcare premise
The Northern Ireland Action Plan for Learning Disability Nursing
No full textThe Northern Ireland Action Plan for Learning Disability Nursin
