Publications

This card highlights the fact that smokers are four times more likely to quit successfully if they have support and signposts the public to the website www.stopsmokingni.info where they can find over 550 free stop smoking services available in Northern Ireland.

This booklet takes smokers through the stages of stopping smoking - preparing to stop, stopping, and staying stopped.

Surveillance quarterly reports for C.difficile and S.aureus track the incidence, prevelence, and trends of these infections overtime within Northern Ireland.

This leaflet outlines the vaccinations available to pregnant women in Northern Ireland; specifically, whooping cough (pertussis), flu, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and COVID-19.

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 PHA's annual reports on antimicrobial use and resistance in Northern Ireland.