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The importance of the contribution of nursing, midwifery and the Allied Health Professions to population health by Kevin Fenton

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Nurses and midwives are the largest group of health professionals at work in the UK. Together with allied health professionals (AHPs), they number over 800,000. I think it’s fair to say that public health simply isn’t going to happen, at …

Personalised Care and Population Health in a Care Home Setting - Kate Hall and Laura Simpson

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In this blog we discuss the importance of health improvement and supporting health and wellbeing in a care home setting and how as care home managers we support our staff to make this happen. We do this through telling the …

Making Every Contact Count: Taking a System Wide Approach - Sophie Taysom

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We know Making Every Contact Count (MECC), including behaviour change interventions, can lead to improvements in people’s health and well-being, reduce avoidable premature mortality linked to poor lifestyle choices, reduce health inequalities and help people better manage long term conditions. …

AHPs - Are you a health promoting practitioner? - Linda Hindle and Alison Raw

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 Are you a health promoting practitioner? This question was asked at several conferences recently and the initial response revealed that only 20% of AHPs in the audience viewed themselves as such. This low response wasn’t because AHPs are not acting …

We're All Health Promoting Practitioners - Viv Bennett

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Welcome to our third week of action about ‘Personalised Care and Population Health,’ our national programme about the nursing, midwifery, health visiting and AHP contribution to public health. This week focuses on health improvement and the importance of being ‘health …

Welcome to Day One of our Week of Action on Health Improvement and Health Promoting Practitioners- #PHPWeek

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Welcome to the start of our week on health improvement and health promoting practitioners. 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 …

Health Improvement and Health Promoting Practitioners - Date for your Diaries

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In the week of 23rd June we will be undertaking our third 'week of action' for personalised care and population health, focusing on the nursing, midwifery, health visitor and allied health profession contribution to health improvement and on being ‘health …

Nurses: A Force for Change - A Vital Resource for Health. International Nurses' Day - blog and joint message from UK and Republic of Ireland Chief Nurses

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May 12th is International Nurses' Day (IND) and this year has at its centre the responsibility and opportunity nurses have to improve the health of population and the need worldwide for enough highly skilled nurses to ensure quality of care …