Rural Impact Assessments 2023-2024
Date published:
In fulfilling its obligations under The Rural Needs Act (NI) 2016 the Department is required to have due regard to rural needs when developing, adopting, implementing or revising a policy, strategy or plan or when designing or delivering a public service. Rural Impact Assessments completed from 1 January 2023 can be found below.
Documents
- Development of Children's and Older Person's Oral Health Improvement Plans Consultation
- Review of the Consent for Hospital Post-Mortem Examination HSC Regional Policy
- Delivery of Continuing Professional Development training programmes for registered Childminders, Early Years Practitioners and Managers
- Consideration of the Department of Health Resource Budget 2023-24
- Development of Regional Parenting Support Helpline
- Implementation of New Strategy for General Practice Pharmacy in Northern Ireland.
- Implementation of Health and Social Care staff pension scheme proposed amendments to scheme regulations regarding member contributions phase 2 and miscellaneous amendments.
- Implementation of The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023.
- Implementation of Infected Blood Payment Scheme (NI) – consultation on enhanced financial support for hepatitis C stage 1
- Implementation of Health and Social Care staff pension scheme McCloud remedy: part two - Proposed changes to Scheme Regulations.
- Development of New Decade New Approach IVF commitment to increase provision from one partial cycle to three full cycles.
- Implementation of NI Firefighters’ Pension Scheme – NFPS Special Members (Retained Firefighters Modified Scheme) – 2nd Options Exercise
- Implementation of the reform of the Northern Ireland Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme.
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care Excellence NG183 - Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care Excellence NG223 - Social, emotional and mental wellbeing in primary and secondary education
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care Excellence NG231 - Barrett's oesophagus and stage 1 oesophageal adenocarcinoma: monitoring and management (updates and replaces CG106)
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care Excellence NG232 - Head injury: assessment and early management (updates and replaces CG176)
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care Excellence NG233 - Otitis media with effusion in under 12s (updates and replaces CG60)
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care NG234 - Spinal metastases and metastatic spinal cord compression (updates and replaces CG75)
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care NG235 - Intrapartum care (updates and replaces CG190)
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care NG236 - Stroke rehabilitation in adults (updates and replaces CG162)
- National Institute for Clinical Health and Care NG238 - Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification (updates and replaces CG181)
- Implementation of The Provision of Health Services to Persons Not Ordinarily Resident (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022
- Development of Strategic Framework to Prevent the Harm caused by Obesity, and Improve Diets and Levels of Physical Activity
- Consultation on a prototype Regional Obesity Management Service for Northern Ireland
- Consultation on the Report Recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care Services.
- Development of Review of General Surgery
- Implementation of The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Powers to Act for the Protection of Public Health) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023
- Implementation of NI Firefighters’ Pension Scheme – Transitional Protection Remedy – Phase Two – Retrospective Remedy
- Development of Violence and Aggression in the Workplace HSC Framework