Publications

Presents information on waiting times for patients accessing cancer services at hospitals in Northern Ireland during each quarter.

Advice from the Chief Medical Officer to HSC professionals for 2026

The Department receives and answers an array of FOI requests each year. In this section you will find examples of the type of requests received and answers given for 2026.

Freedom of Information Statistics for end of year 2025

Infected Blood Pament Scheme - Newsletter - November 2025

This notice is to advise the region that additional vigilance and surveillance of device operation should be implemented when using Airvo 2.

Provisional monthly management information derived from HSC Trust systems in regards to children's social care services in Northern Ireland. These figures are provisional and subject to change. The information used to populate the monthly children’s...

The Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians? Order 2025

Acute episode-based activity statistics present information on acute, episode-based activity at health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland across four volumes. This set of publications details key information on all activity and provides breakdowns...

This page provides information to be used alongside the acute episode-based activity statistics.

This information has been produced from the health survey Northern Ireland and issued on 16th December 2025

The Department’s Equality Scheme includes a commitment to the development of an Equality Action Plan (EAP) which relates to the Department’s specific functions and aims to promote equality of opportunity and good relations by taking...

Under Section 49A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), amended by Article 5 of the Disability Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, public authorities are required, when carrying out their functions, to have due regard...

This report presents findings on people presenting to services with problem drug and/ alcohol misuse for the first time, or the first time in six months. The statistics in this report are Official statistics in...

Safe Access Zones - Annual Report - December 2025

This information has been produced from the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Inequalities Monitoring System and issued on 10th December 2025.

This annual publication presents the latest estimates of life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy. The report explores the extent to which mortality within certain age groups and causes of death contribute to...

This calendar shows the due dates of hospital information branch returns for quarter ending December 2025.

Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 - Guidance and Regulations Volume Five - Children with a Disability

Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 - Guidance and Regulations Volume One - Court Orders and Other Legal Issues