Celebrating International Nurses Day 2019
International Nurses Day is always very important in my calendar - a day to take time to reflect, celebrate and to be grateful for all the amazing work nurses do every day to care for the public’s health.
Viv Bennett
Professor Viv Bennett is Director of Nursing at the Department of Health (DH) and Public Health England (PHE).
Achieving a smokefree pregnancy: can e-cigarettes help? - Jo Locker
Use of electronic cigarettes continues to rise and midwives and health visitors are being increasingly asked for advice in relation to their use during pregnancy. This blog provides some top line messages from a new briefing with further helpful information. …
“Ready to learn, ready for life”: The central role of health visitors, by Alison Morton
Health visitors were delighted to receive a resounding endorsement from Sir Michael Wilshaw for their central role in ensuring all children are “Ready to learn at two and Ready for school at five”. In a speech to launch the recently …
Improving the health of school-aged children and young people supporting best practice and effective commissioning
The health of our children and young people and their ability to get the best from their education is vital for individual life chances and our future society. Young people face many challenges in their developing years and have been …
Honours - Recognising the achievements of ordinary people who do extraordinary things
It may come as a surprise to you but finding a good, representative number of nurses, midwives and AHPs to receive the nation’s gratitude and recognition through an honour can prove a difficult job. This is not because there aren’t …
RCN Statement on Antimicrobial Resistance
Following our week of action, Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges, and to coincide with NHS Change Day (3rd March 2014), I am please to be able to post this supportive RCN statement on antimicrobial Resistance. This is …
Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges - End of Week Message and Thank You from Viv Bennett
The fifth and final day of our week of action on health protection! We set out to make this vital function visible and especially to set out some of the successes and challenges for the nursing and midwifery professions. We …
Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges - Day Five - Friday, 28th Feb
Day Five of our Week of Action – 28th February, Friday This short ‘blog’ is just to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book for later in the week …
Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges - Day Four - 27th February 2014
Day Four of our Week of Action – 27th February, Thursday This short ‘blog’ is just to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book for later in the week …
Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges - Day Three - 26th Feb 2014
Day Three of our Week of Action – 26th February, Wednesday This short ‘blog’ is just to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book for later in the week …
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