Prevention Services

Working to prevent chest, heart and stroke illnesses
Our Health Promotion Team works hard to inspire and inform people across Northern Ireland about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and help to prevent avoidable chest, heart and stroke conditions.
6,886
people benefitted from our targeted health promotion programmes in 2020/21
At NICHS, we:
- Inform, educate, and inspire local people to choose a healthier lifestyle via health promotion information, online health checks, resource videos and webinars.
- Support local businesses to invest in workplace health and wellbeing to keep employees and staff well, through our Work Well, Live Well and Well NI programmes.
- Identify often undiagnosed high blood pressure, cholesterol, Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and other personal risk factors