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Advice on dental services and oral health for all dental practitioners and dental care professionals and guidance on workforce planning and contractual arrangements

Guidance to ALBs on accountability, financial management, procurement and other financial matters. Information about planned and ongoing procurements

Advice and guidance on records management including a retention and disposal schedule covering all records created by the department and HSC organisations, as well as those working under contract to HSC

Medical employment terms and conditions (except GPs), workforce development including education, careers and skills, policy reports and guidance

Nursing and midwifery policies, strategies and guidance and professional guidance for allied health professions

Guidance on how organisations should manage their businesses, determine strategy and achieve objectives

An overview of the Autism strategy and action plan; Bamford review of mental health and learning disability and mental health and learning disability statistics

Policy and Guidance for Improving the Safety and Quality of Health and Social Care Services including best practice guidance, service frameworks, regulation and Q2020

The Strategic Framework for Public Health, health promotion, health protection and emergency preparedness, highlighting obesity prevention, sexual health, skin cancer prevention, suicide prevention and tobacco control

Environmental health and climate change, health and social care research and development, professional good practice guidelines and HSC communications and letters from the CMO

The Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Cathy Harrison and her team are responsible for providing specialist advice on medicines and pharmaceutical issues, for the development of policy relating to medicines

All professional aspects on how social care is delivered in Northern Ireland including social work strategy, child protection, NSMC, early authoritative interventions

Making Life Better, Donaldson report

Information & analysis directorate (IAD) provides statistical information relating to many aspects of health and social care services in Northern Ireland.Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)Link to the Calendar document:IAD Statistics Calendar

Information on the Departments Implementation Programme for the Inquiry into Hyponatraemia Related Deaths (IHRD)

In October 2016, a 10 year approach to transforming health and social care was launched, “Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together”.

Chief Nursing Officer Professor Charlotte McArdle launches the implementation of the 2018 NMC Future Nurse education standards here in Northern Ireland.

Strategy

Overview and guidance for Neurology Recall patients seeking compensation

This year is the 75th anniversary of the NHS

This page contains information on the INI Implementation Programme