Consultant Terms and Conditions of Service (Northern Ireland) 2004 (PDF 267 KB)

Consultant Terms and Conditions of Service (Northern Ireland) 2004

Agenda For Change - Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 293 KB)

Agenda For Change - Frequently Asked Questions

Home Accident Prevention Strategy

A Healthier Future: A Twenty Year Vision for Health and Wellbeing in Northern Ireland 2005-2025

Regional Advisory Committee on Cancer Third Report - November 2004 (PDF 166 KB)

The Regional Advisory Committee on Cancer (RACC) was established in 1997 to carry forward the recommendations of the 1996 Campbell Report and to provide advice to the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on the future development of cancer services. (Appendix 1) The 27 members of RACC come from the Health and Social Services Councils (which represent the interests of the public), Trusts, Boards, primary care and the Department. Members are listed in Appendix 2 RACC held its first meeting in June 1997 and has continued to meet twice a year since then. The Northern Ireland Cancer Forum was established in 1999 and is a subgroup of RACC. It was recommended that a Forum should be developed to provide meeting point for all voluntary and statutory bodies dealing with cancer in Northern Ireland. The Forum has now met on seven occasions and continues to work well with a unity of purpose. åÊ åÊ

Regional Advisory Committee on Cancer - Report on Endocrine Cancer (September 2004) (PDF 144 KB)

There is already a good infrastructure for the management of endocrine cancer in Northern Ireland but to develop and strengthen it we recommend the following: • Increasing the already close cooperation between the individual parts of the service for endocrine cancer by use of shared protocols for assessment and follow up: • The main hub of management should remain at the RGH focussed on The Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes and the Endocrine Surgery department where there has been a long-term interest in the management of these patients. This includes a close working relationship between the endocrinologists and surgeon at the Belfast City Hospital. • This does not suggest that current developments of shared follow-up should not be encouraged. They should but with the provision of adequately resourced registers to allow adequate audit and to ensure adequate assessment of follow-up attendance. The issues regarding informed consent for such registers are currently being discussed for all forms of cancer. In the rarer conditions follow-up should remain central to allow adequate numbers and experience to maintain internationally recognisable outcomes and to allow training of future specialists to continue åÊ

Dental Branch Annual Report 2003/2004 (PDF 269 KB)

The second Annual Report of Dental Branch

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

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

Investing for Health Update 2004

Investing for Health Update 2004

Dietetic Managers (PDF 87 KB)

NI Strategy Document 2002 - 2005

Primary Care - A position paper for the Professions Allied to Medicine (PDF 839 KB)

A Position Paper for the Professions Allied to Medicine

PAM Strategy (PDF 310 KB)

A Regional Strategic Framework for the Professions Allied to Medicine in NI

AHP Position Statement (PDF 46 KB)

Research and Development in the Professions Allied to Medicine within NI