Top Tips for Parents - Your Guide to Positive Parenting Cantonese (PDF 2.3MB)

Cantonese Translation

Guide to Flexible Working Options - June 2009 (PDF 578 KB)

This guide aims to outline the Department's position on flexible working.

5 Standards pocket guide (PDF 3763 KB)

Improving the Patient and Client experience (Print only)

Family Friendly Guide - May 2007 (PDF 550 KB)

Provides Details of Family Friendly Policies for Staff With Caring Responsibilities

Improving Patients' Access to Medicines: A Guide to Implementing Nurse and Pharmacist Independent Prescribing within the HPSS in Northern Ireland (PDF 704 KB)

A Guide to Implementing Nurse and Pharmacist Independent Prescribing within the HPSS in Northern Ireland

Nursing Needs Assessment Tool User Guide 2006 (PDF 207 KB)

The user guide describes how to undertake an assessment using the nursing needs assessment tool.

Racial Equality In Health and Social Care Good Practice Guide

Racial Equality In Health and Social Care Good Practice Guide

Charges for Residential Accommodation Guide 01/2005 (PDF 48 KB)

Charges for Residential Accommodation

NI Child Care Law - The Rough Guide (PDF 328 KB)

This document provides a practical guide to Northern Ireland child care law.

Nursing Needs Assessment Tool - Users Guide 2002 (PDF 32 KB)

This assessment tool is designed to assess the registered nursing needs of a person needing long-term care. The tool is designed to encapsulate a systematic approach to assessment whilst at the same time embracing professional decision-making that takes place in the relationship between a nurse and another person. For this reason, the tool takes the assessment through a staged approach, moving from a general ‘narrative’ based assessment of ‘domains’ of care need, to a focused assessment of risk and complexity. åÊ

Racial Equality in Health - Good Practice Guide - Consultation Document (PDF 261KB)

This good practice guide has been produced by the Equity Commission for Northern Ireland in partnership with the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPSNI).