This afternoon, the Cancer Focus Northern Ireland Health Improvement Manager, Naomi Thompson, addressed physical education and sport students at Stranmillis University College. She was joined by Health Minister Robin Swann, who spoke to students about the role of health promotion and risk factors su...
No Smoking Month is fast approaching, and the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Cancer Focus Northern Ireland are encouraging smokers to ‘Make March Your Month to Quit’. With smoking being the single most entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death, in Northern Ireland it is responsi...
Cancer Focus NI has unveiled details of its new Go Pink fundraising campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. The charity has also announced dairy co-operative Dale Farm as the official sponsor of the Go Pink campaign. The campaign is being launched as projections from the Northern Ir...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is lending a helping hand to raise awareness of cancer prevention at Michaela Foundation’s Summer Camps for girls. The charities will work together at 19 camps across Northern Ireland, each attended by 80 girls (aged 11-13). The Summer Camp partnership was officially la...
From Saturday 20 May 2017, all tobacco sold in Northern Ireland must be in new-style ‘plain’ packaging. Cigarettes and tobacco will no longer be sold in bright, glitzy packs but will be in drab green packages with larger picture warnings about the dangers of smoking. This follows a year’s grace peri...
