Departments

Dr Anne-Marie Telford

Director of Public Health
annemate@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk
Hazel Babes, Personal Assistant
hazelba@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk
Tel 028 3741 4562

• Leads a multi-professional Department of Public Health
• Executive Director of SHSSB
• Corporate member of Board’s senior management team
• Lead Director for Investing for Health and Health Action Zone teams
• Accountable for governance issues relating to local public health, dental, pharmacy and optometry services
• Regional lead roles currently in relation to...

• Planning and prioritising investments in local and regional acute hospital services.
• Public Health Member of the Southern Local Commissioning Group (LCG)
• Planning of local acute hospital services
• Special interests in renal services, cancer services and clinical audit

• Surveillance of communicable diseases
• Co-ordination of immunisation programmes
• Emergency Planning
• Environmental Health advice
• Co-ordination of the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy
  
  

• Planning of Mental Health services, including Child and Adolescent Mental Health services
• Planning of Learning disability services
• Planning of Physical and sensory disability services

• Planning of Maternal and Child Health services
• Planning of services for the Elderly
• Special interest in Stroke, Diabetes, Disability in childhood
• Chair of Wraparound Project Team
  
  

• Planning, co-ordination and quality assurance of screening programmes, including diabetic retinopathy, antenatal infections, neonatal hearing and cervical cancer
• Supports the development of clinical and social care governance arrangements for public health and healthcare
• Leads on the implementation of the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood Strategy
  
  

• Planning, co-ordination and analysis of dental surveys to assess need
• Development, management and evaluation of interventions designed to improve oral health
• Evaluation and review of dental service provision
• Assessment of alternative models of dental service delivery

Annette O'Hara
Health Protection Nurse
annettoh@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk
Tel 028 3741 4406

• Provides infection control nursing advice, education and consultation to primary care medical and dental services and private nursing and residential homes in the SHSSB area.

Josephine Matthews
Health Protection Nurse
josephma@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk
Tel 028 37414406

• Provides infection control nursing advice, education and consultation to primary care medical and dental services and private nursing and residential homes in the SHSSB area.

Mrs Deirdre Quinn
Director of Pharmaceutical Services
Deirdre.Quinn@hscni.net
Angela Neilly, Administrative Assistant
Angela.Neilly@hscni.net
Tel 028 3741 4623

• Planning of service developments in community pharmacy
• Planning of pharmaceutical services in hospitals and in residential care.
• Developing prescribing support arrangements for Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacists

• To provide pharmaceutical advice to GP practices.
• Input into the setting, implementation and monitoring of prescribing policies for designated practices for the purposes of safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing.

Mrs Michelle McCourt
Nurse Prescribing Advisor
michelmc@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk
Tel: 028 3741 4624

• To promote and support all developments in nurse prescribing
• Working with Boards, Trusts, GPs, Local Medical Committee, Area Prescribing Forum and others to agree common procedures in the development of nurse prescribing.
• To support and assist nurse prescribers and the practices to which they are aligned in ensuring safe, cost-effective and rational prescribing.

• Supports the Southern Investing for Health Partnership (SIHP)
• Co-ordinates the development of an annual Health Improvement Plan on behalf of the SIHP
• Contributes to a range of inter-sector, inter-agency partnerships to tackle the determinants of health and wellbeing, e.g. Community Safety Partnerships, Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships and CAWT (Co-operation and Working Together) Cross Border Sub-groups

Responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes which deliver on key tobacco targets in the Southern Health and Social Services Board area in line with:

• The Tobacco Action Plan for Northern Ireland.
• DHSSPS Smoking Cessation Services Monitoring Guidance 2000/2001.
• Regulations on smoking in public places.

Responsible for the specialist area of Tobacco Control across the SHSSB area in delivering on priorities in relation to:

• Tobacco Control Policies across all sectors and settings.
• Smoking Cessation Services throughout the Southern Area.
• Smoking Cessation Training.
• Smoking Prevention Initiatives.

• Leads on the Health Promotion function within the SHSSB
• Co-ordinates assessment of need and the development of health promotion strategies
• Supports a range of partnership programmes at local, regional and cross-border level eg NOF Cancer Prevention, Sexual Health, Physical Activity, Mental Health Promotion

• Advises on the commissioning of AHP services
• Ensures effective AHP contribution in the planning and development of AHP services
• Provides support to the AHPs in professional services
• Supports and facilitates clinical governance arrangements in respect of AHP services.

• Coordinates the development and delivery of the Southern Area Drug and Alcohol Action Plan
• Develop and maintain liaison with the diverse range of statutory, community and voluntary groupings in the Southern area who contribute to the delivery of drug and alcohol awareness, education, training and counseling.

• To review and update the SHSSB Emergency Plan and work with Trusts towards further development of their emergency plans.
• To facilitate a co-ordinated approach to Emergency Planning preparedness across the HPSS sector within the SHSSB area.
• To better integrate the HPSS sector with other key stakeholders.

• To ensure probity in all aspects of payment made to Pharmaceutical Family Health Services Practitioners
• To implement all pharmaceutical aspects of the Board's Probity Assurance Systems.
• To develop processes to monitor the appropriateness of payments and probity of services provided by pharmaceutical contractors.

• Provide advice to the SHSSB on all aspects of optometry.
• Provide a liaison between the optometrists, the SHSSB, the ophthalmologists, orthoptists, GPs and others involved in the provision of eye care. 
• Monitor General Ophthalmic services provided both for clinical standards and probity.
• Promote the importance of eye care to the population of the SHSSB.