Global threat of AMR We all face extremely challenging times as the serious threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) increases. The leaders of the G20 group of countries met in September 2016 and acknowledged the gravity of the threat of AMR …
This week is a call to action. It is a call for all nurses, midwives, care staff and our colleagues across the system to pause and think about your role in promoting health and wellbeing, preventing ill health and protecting …
To ensure occupational health nurses have their education aligned to a service vision, we are proud to launch today, following work with a number of partners and stakeholders, a new guidance document called: Educating Occupational Health Nurses. As well as setting out the …
So it’s Friday and we come to the end of our week of action focussing on children and young people 5-19. During #health5to19 it has been great to have so many of you join us, to hear from so many …
It has been a busy week as usual but this week has been quite special; we have had a real focus on children and young people and how together we can make a difference. Whilst the focus was on 5-19, …
The Public Health England week of action #health5to19 is a great opportunity for us to share our young carers work from Blackpool. In case you don’t know a Young Carer is a child that cares for someone in their family …
Health care services play an important role in each and every individual’s life, including young people’s. This is why the young should be involved in making decisions regarding their care - they are not an add-on to the service but …
Forrest Gump once said that life is like a box of chocolates, but if life is like a box of chocolates, then growing up must be like eating those chocolates upside down and immersed head first in a vat of …
I was 16 years old. Being 16 is a busy time and it certainly was for me; I was a school leaver and from recently separated parents. I had a new and very scary job in a bank. I started …
Half of all mental health problems are established by the age of 14 and 75% by early adulthood. 1 in 10 children and young people have a diagnosable mental health problem and yet accessing support is still a challenge. (Mental …
