NICE guidance is designed and developed for the NHS in England and is therefore not automatically applicable to Northern Ireland. Guidance is locally reviewed for applicability to Northern Ireland and, where appropriate, is endorsed for...
The Department of Health is undertaking a public consultation on the final report of the Regional Review of Neurology Services. The Department welcomes your views on the report’s analysis, findings and proposed recommendations which are...
The current Department of Health’s (DoH) Equality Scheme was published in 2022. One of the key commitments in our Equality Scheme 2022 is to carry out an Audit of Inequalities and develop a Section 75...
The purpose of this consultation is to seek feedback on Departmental proposals to implement changes in two key areas of childcare regulation, which is carried out by HSC Trust Early Years Teams under the Children...
The Department of Health is undertaking a consultation on the introduction of a new Regional Framework for Learning and Improvement from Patient Safety Incidents and supporting documentation to replace the current Serious Adverse Incident (SAI)...
The Department of Health would welcome your views on proposals set out in the consultation document and draft regulations below in relation to the HSC Pension Scheme Regulations.
The purpose of this consultation is to seek feedback on the Review of the Northern Ireland General Practice Prescribing Formula. This consultation will be open for 8 weeks and seeks feedback on the recommendations of...
The purpose of this consultation is to outline the potential changes to the eligibility criteria for automatic support being provided under the Help with Health Costs scheme for Universal Credit recipients.
The Department of Health is undertaking a consultation to seek views on policy proposals for legislative changes in the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme with regard to the second options exercise for retained firefighters.
The 2025-26 Draft Budget was announced by the Finance Minister on the 19th December 2024. This provides the Draft Resource and Capital investment funding allocations to departments for the 2025-26 budget period. The Department of...
The Department is consulting on the equality impact assessment of proposals for a new regional management structure for pathology services within Northern Ireland (NI) in the form of a new HSC agency, being taken forward...
The Department of Health is undertaking a consultation on the introduction of a Being Open Framework in Northern Ireland. The consultation opened on 10 December 2024. The closing date is 28 March 2025 at 5.00pm.
The purpose of this consultation is to seek feedback on the draft Valuing Medicines Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Medicines in Northern Ireland. This will inform further development and finalisation of the strategy ahead...
The Department of Health is undertaking a consultation to seek views on policy proposals for legislative changes in the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme.
The Department of Health would welcome your views on proposals set out in the consultation document and draft regulations below in relation to HSC Pension Scheme Regulations.
The Department is seeking views on the proposals within this framework document with a view to creating a hospital network to achieve better outcomes for all.