Publications

The overarching purpose of these guidelines is to promote the safety and protection of service users and others in the event of a service user going missing or Absent Without Leave (AWOL). The guidelines provide a framework for all staff when it is determined that a service user is absent without leave.

This supplement  explores the recommended next care of hospital-treated self-harm in the Western Health and Social Care Trust area.

The sixth Director of Public Health Annual Report, detailing the main public health challenges in Northern Ireland, is being launched this morning. It also provides information on the wide variety of work undertaken by the PHA and its partners during 2014 to improve the health and social wellbeing of the population.

Each year, the report focuses on an overarching area, which this year is ‘Adults aged 18–64 years’. There are also two supplementary documents of key data and core tables being launched alongside the report and which help to put into context many of the figures being reported.