Day Three – Helping Families, Children and Young People to Look After Their Health

Welcome to day three our week on helping families and giving children and young people the best start to life.

This short blog is to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book for later in the week but as this is a week of ‘action’ we would also like to encourage you to use the week as an opportunity to post details on what you are doing, to share successes or make a pledge to do something that ensures children and young people are at the heart of what we do.

Our Twitter hashtag for this week is #PHPCYPWeek (Population Health Practice/Practitioners Children and Young People Week), so please try to use it and get us trending.

Today’s theme is ‘Helping Families, Children and Young People to Look After Their Health’

Among the number of partners supporting our week we are grateful to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents http://www.rospa.com/ who have offered 20 free places for a training day on child safety in the home to health visitors. Please do not contact us for a place as we are not accepting applications but will trawl via NHS Area Teams when a date is fixed.

RoSPA has also produced a free e-book full of life-saving tips designed specifically for home safety professionals to help educate others on accident risks in the home. The e-book, titled ‘Bringing Safety Home,’ is available to those who sign up to SafetyMatters - RoSPA’s free fornightly e-bulletin. Details at www.rospa.com/safetymatters/safetymatters.html

You are also encouraged to read this moving personal account by Joy Edwards following the tragic death of her daughter, Leah, in a blind cord accident http://bit.ly/1xeBCwV. Joy now campaigns to raise awareness of home safety.

Blogs coming to this site today:

Safe as Necessary – Sheila Merrill, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Improving Lives through supporting looked after children, Sharon White, SAPHNA
Child Injury: Burns – Dr Toity Deave (Hosted by www.rospa.com)
Managing minor illness and reducing accidents, Wendy Nicholson & Pauline Watts, Department of Health
Promoting Cycle Helmets and Road Safety – Angela Lee
Playing Out: A Public Health Perspective, Claire Lowman Public Health Service Lead for Bristol City Council
The Importance of Immunisation for Children, Jill Beswick and Sharon White, SAPHNA
Immunisation: Keeping the Focus, Helen Donovan, Royal College of Nursing
Increasing awareness and understanding of children’s bladder and bowel health is vital to effective management- Brenda Cheer, ERIC
Healthy Homerton - Linda Hindle, Public Health England

Audio/Video

Each day this week we will be posting a podcast interview with Viv Bennett, Director of Nursing, Department of Health and Public Health England, as she tells the story of the service transformation that has taken place across health visiting services since 2010.listen to ‘Part 3 Viv Bennett discussing the health visitor service transformation’ on audioBoom

Archive:

Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for School and Community Nursing at the Department of Health has recorded a podcast on the school nursing service and challenges for young people. Listen at http://bit.ly/1yLNcg8
Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive at Public Health England, has recorded a video message. Watch it at http://bit.ly/1oQJpOP
Listen to the first in the series of daily podcasts by Viv Bennett on the health visitor service transformation http://bit.ly/1ybp86y
Listen to the second in the series of daily podcasts by Viv Bennett on the health visitor service transformation http://bit.ly/1zyICmw
To listen to Mervyn Townley's Webinar on Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing and the MindEd programme click on this link: https://ukdoh.webex.com/ukdoh/ldr.php?RCID=64446df8a5991bf378300f218c094d60
To listen to Mary Malone and Lynn Sayer onThe Education initiative - New Elements of Learning webinar click on this link: https://ukdoh.webex.com/ukdoh/ldr.php?RCID=72787d80d95599d43c85355b0aba3c58
Linda Hindle, Allied Health Professional Lead Adviser at Public Health England, talks about the significant and diverse contribution AHPs make to the health and wellbeing of children and young people.listen to ‘Linda Hindle talks on the significant contribution of Allied Health Professionals make to the health and wellbeing of children and young people’ on audioBoom

Today's Webchats/Twitter Chats

Wednesday, 19^th Nov

11.00sm-12noon Sheila Merrill, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents' (RoSPA) public health adviser, will be answering home safety questions on the @RoSPA Twitter account. #AskRoSPA (no need to book a place, just join on the day)
3.00-4.00pm Promoting Child Cyclist Safety and Helmet Use – Simple Yet So Hard - Angela Lee, Paediatric Nurse Consultant, Royal Berkshire Foundation NHS Trust

(To book a place please e-mail ian.packman@dh.gsi.gov.uk quoting WED1)

POSTPONED Reducing Hospital/GP Visits and managing minor illness webinar – Maggie Fisher, Fellow of the Institute if Health Visiting, and Wendy Nicholson, School and Community Nursing Professional Lead, Department of Health (unfortunately we have to postpone this webinar but will make arrangements to run it in a few weeks)

PHE Facebook Page

During the week we will be posting some infographics on this page. https://www.facebook.com/PublicHealthEngland

Twitter

We'll be drip-feeding throughout the day a range of facts relating to the importance of physical activity and the impact of inactivity on population health @VivJBennett

Professional Journals

Keep your eyes open for related articles appearing in professional journals during the week or on their websites (some journals will be subscription/membership access only). Articles appearing on today’s theme include Maternal Mental Health – Postnatal Depression, the importance of breastfeeding for emotional well-being, health visitors and school nurses supporting asylum seekers, the impact of specialist health visitors for homeless and vulnerable families.

Nursing & Midwifery

Nursing Standard http://www.nursing-standard-journal.co.uk
Nursing Times http://www.nursingtimes.net
Independent Nurse http://www.independentnurse.co.uk
British Journal of School Nursing http://www.school-nursing.co.uk
Journal of Health Visiting http://www.journalofhealthvisiting.com

AHP

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy - Frontline
College of Occupational Therapists - OT News
The British Dietetics Association - Dietetics Today
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist - Bulletin

Things to plan for the rest of the week:

Thursday, 20^th Nov

8.00-9.00pm Getting it right for our children and young people - @WeNurses Twitterchat

(Join on the night. Details will appear at http://www.wecommunities.org/tweet-chats/chat-details/352)

Friday, 21^st Nov

12.00-1.00pm Special Educational Needs Reforms webinar – hosted by Lynne Watson, Fellow of Institute of Health Visiting, and Wendy Nicholson, School and Community Nursing Professional Lead, Department of Health

(To book a place please e-mail ian.packman@dh.gsi.gov.uk quoting FRI1)

Other useful information, links and resources

Reducing unintentional injuries among children and young people

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-unintentional-injuries-among-children-and-young-people

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents RoSPA:

http://www.rospa.com/homesafety/

http://www.familysafetyweek.org.uk/

http://www.rospa.com/bigbook/index.html

http://www.rospa.com/about/currentcampaigns/publichealth/info/delivering-accident-prevention-context.pdf

Child Accident Prevention Trust CAPT:

http://www.capt.org.uk/?gclid=CMb-rMSMhMICFcrKtAod2WkA-Q

School and Public Health Nurses Association SAPHNA