Living with a long term health condition such as chest, heart or stroke illness, affects you not just physically, but also emotionally and socially. Whilst timely and effective medical intervention is essential, people with long term health conditions also need support and guidance to manage their conditions, and lives, on a daily and ongoing basis.

NICHS run a number of services across Northern Ireland to help people and their families to meet the challenges of living with chest, heart or stroke conditions.

All our services are underpinned by the following principles.

• Focused on Empowering people
• Focused on creating independence
• Aim to improve self confidence, self efficacy, self management & self care
• Caring for those who need it
• Providing effective peer support opportunities
• Focus on Health, physical activity, education, secondary prevention & signposting
• Delivered by skilled and competent staff and volunteers delivering services
• Evidenced based services, focssed on measurable outcomes for people and their families
• Collaboration and partnership with families, statutory and other voluntary service providers