Viv Bennett

Organisations:	Public Health England

School nurses key role in addressing LGBT issues - Dr Justin Varney

Viv Bennett, 14 July 2017 — Blogs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, Reducing health inequalities, School Nursing

School nurses have a unique position of trust with young people and can be one of the professionals that young people turn to when they are working through their sexual orientation or gender identity and finding their identity. Stonewall’s School …

Early adolescence - an incredible journey? Wendy Nicholson

Viv Bennett, 13 July 2017 — All Our Health, Blogs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, School Nursing

Childhood can be an incredible journey when children and young people are exposed to many new situations and challenges. For some this journey will be relatively unproblematic while for others the journey will be complex. Children and young people are …

Leadership – impact, outcomes and child focussed - Wendy Nicholson

Viv Bennett, 12 July 2017 — All Our Health, Blogs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, population health, School Nursing

School nurses are passionate about the health and wellbeing of children and young people, always striving to ensure services meet local needs and finding creative or innovative ways to improve delivery. The 4-5-6 model provided an opportunity to focus on …

Healthy Lifestyles and Childhood Obesity - Penny Greenwood

Viv Bennett, 11 July 2017 — All Our Health, Blogs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, population health, School Nursing

Childhood obesity is a key public health priority and a significant contemporary health concern; it is one of the leading preventable causes of death and associated long term health risks. Today, nearly a third of children aged two to 15 …

HEALTHY START - Supporting Families to give their children the best start in life - Penny Greenwood

Viv Bennett, 6 July 2017 — All Our Health, Blogs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, Health Improvement, Health Visiting

Promoting a healthy, balanced and sustainable diet is a key public health priority across the UK as well as other health strategies such as promoting healthy lifestyles, physical activity and healthy weight. Promoting healthy diets and nutrition are important for …

WeLearn – embracing social learning! - Teresa Chinn and Wendy Nicholson

Viv Bennett, 28 June 2017 — All Our Health

Those eagle eyed tweeters amongst you may have noticed the #WeLearnSoMe hashtag on Twitter throughout March. WeLearn was a pilot project, a WeCommunities and PHE Chief Nurse Directorate collaboration. This was all about introducing a small group of school nurses to social …

Migrant Health Guide Relaunch - Lauren Rellis

Viv Bennett, 26 June 2017 — Blogs, population health

When people migrate to the United Kingdom, it’s important they are able to access evidence-based information on how to meet their health needs. When healthcare professionals see recently migrated individuals for the first time, there will undoubtedly be a lot …

Making the Vital Visible: Every Day Interactions - Linda Hindle

Viv Bennett, 21 June 2017 — AHPs, All Our Health, Blogs, population health, Protecting Health

We have talked about making the vital visible: that is making explicit and celebrating the input and impact of health and care practitioners (HCPs) on the public’s health through preventing avoidable illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing and resilience. Today …

Breastfeeding – How can we help mothers do it more?

Viv Bennett, 7 April 2017 — Getting it Right for Children and Young People, Health Visiting

This month we launched our Start4Life campaign to highlight the importance of supporting new mums to start and continue breastfeeding for longer and this included the launch of a new app, the Breastfeeding Friend (BFF) ChatBot, to offer that little …

Behaviour Change Interventions School Nurse Toolkit by Sean Mackay

Viv Bennett, 10 March 2017 — School Nursing, Uncategorized

School nurses are busy. Busy and innovative, using their creativity to tackle local issues in novel ways. They see a problem, decide on a local strategy to tackle it, and have a go. Perhaps the intervention works, or perhaps it …

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A supported and up-skilled maternity workforce is vital to reduce smoking in pregnancy - Viv Bennett and Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent