Rural Impact Assessments 2024-2025
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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 Needs Annual Report 24/25
Rural Impact Assessments completed from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 are below.
Documents
- SPPG RNIA Advocacy Service for Deaf Adults April 2024
- Budget 2024-25 - Rural Needs Assessment
- Procurement of Hearing Aid User Support Service (HAUSS) to empower Service Users in the use of hearing aids
- Valuing Medicines Strategy – RNIA (249KB)
- Three Year HSC Plan December 2024 – RNIA (240KB)
- The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes Amendment No. 2 – RNIA (248KB)
- Sexual Health Action Plan (SHAP) – RNIA (294KB)
- NICE NG 245 Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (BTS, NICE, SIGN) – RNIA (299KB)
- NICE NG 243 Adrenal insufficiency: identification and management– RNIA (663KB)
- NICE NG 242 Diabetic retinopathy: management and monitoring – RNIA (664KB)
- NICE NG 221 Reducing sexually transmitted infections – RNIA (666KB)
- HSC Pension Scheme Yield member contribution and amendments – RNIA (252KB)
- Firefighters Pension Scheme Amendments Remediable Service ERF Medical Appeal papers and others – RNIA (245KB)
- Aghadowey Branch Surgery Closure – RNIA (307KB)
- The Period Products (Free Provision) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (PDF 607KB)
- Selection process for local Government representatives for shadow Area Integrated Partnership Boards (AIPBs) (PDF 726KB)
- NICE Clinical Guideline NG237 - Suspected acute respiratory infection in over 16s: assessment at first presentation and initial management (partially updates and replaces CG191 (PDF 666KB)
- NICE Clinical Guideline NG239 - Vitamin B12 deficiency in over 16s: diagnosis and management (PDF 666KB)
- NICE Clinical Guideline NG140 - Abortion care (PDF 665KB)
- NICE Clinical Guideline NG241 - Ovarian cancer: identifying and managing familial and genetic risk (PDF 665KB)
- ‘Bereaved NI’ - Northern Ireland Bereavement Network website (PDF 658KB)
- NICE Public Health Guideline NG212 - Mental wellbeing at work (PDF 667KB)
- Safe and Effective Staffing (PDF 743KB)
- Commencement of provisions relating to ‘Acts of Restraint’ within the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (MCA) (PDF 621KB)
- Pathology Blueprint-Rural Needs IA-05.12.2024- should have been reported 24 25
- Rural Needs Assessment- Children's EHWB Framework - SPPG