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  • Public health policy and advice

    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

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    Health promotion

    • Food Hygiene Rating Scheme
    • Health Development Policy Branch and Health Improvement Policy Branch Steering Groups - Privacy Notice
    • Making Life Better - Strategic Framework for Public Health

    Health protection information

    • Infected Blood Payment Scheme for NI
    • Animal Sscientific Procedures - Advice Documents
    • Community resuscitation

    Emergency preparedness

    • Health and Social Care Mass Casualties Incidents: A Framework for Planning
    • Pandemic influenza
    • Emergency planning and response

    Making Life Better

    'Making Life Better' is the strategic framework for public health. It is designed to provide direction for policies and actions to improve the health and well being of people in Northern Ireland and to reduce health inequalities.

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    Most recent publications

    • Healthy Start-Apply Online Poster Northern Ireland

      Published 15 April 2025
    • Healthy Start Vitamins Poster Northern Ireland

      Published 15 April 2025
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    Most recent consultations

    • NICE Public Health Guideline NG212 - Mental wellbeing at work

      Published 17 August 2022 Consultation closed
    • NICE Public Health Guideline NG209 - Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence

      Published 10 August 2022 Consultation closed
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    Most recent news items

    • Public health bill consultation extended

      Published 19 September 2024
    • Consultation on a new Public Health Bill for Northern Ireland

      Published 5 July 2024
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    How to request information from the Department of Health including Freedom of Information, information about yourself and the type of information we commit to publish on a regular basis.

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