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Smart Commissioning in Shropshire - Ensuring School Nurses can Deliver by Jo France

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Building strong partnerships across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Dudley has helped our school nurses to take a lead, along with our Health Visiting colleagues, in delivering the Healthy Child Programme addressing key public health issues such as sexual health, …

Childhood Immunisation: MMR Vaccine by David Green

Nurses play an important role in raising awareness about the benefits of immunisation.  Despite current high immunisation uptake rates in infants and children, we are still seeing cases of and clusters of measles in teenagers and young adults. This is …

Why resilience matters to children and young people by Eustace de Sousa

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We hear a lot about resilience – described by some as ‘grit’, ‘determination’, ‘self-control’ and ‘character’. Most agree that it is the ability to resist adversity, and to bounce back from adversity when you feel you can’t avoid it – …

Mental Health First Aid For All - Supporting Adolescents with their Wellbeing by Poppy Jaman

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The 2016 focus for World Mental Health Day was ‘psychological and mental health first aid for all’ – a theme which lent itself really well to engaging lots of different communities with an important public health message.  As the CEO …

Making a difference for children and young people (5-19) – the 4-5-6 model and high impact areas by Wendy Nicholson

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During this week of week of action (#health5-19), we will be focussing on the key issues relating to the health and wellbeing of children and young people aged 5 to 19. This stage of the life course poses many challenges …

Welcome to #Health5to19 - The future and present…… Viv Bennett

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Children and young people are our future; we want to give them the best start in life. This starts in pregnancy and the early years and continues through supporting children and young people throughout their journey to adulthood.  This week we …

NEWS: Join us for 2 'Weeks of Action' Coming Soon!

I'm delighted to announce that in the coming month we will be putting on not one but two 'weeks of action.' Those of you who have followed or participated in our previous 'weeks' will know the format but for those …

Living Well with Dementia and Down’s syndrome by Julian Hallett , Down's Syndrome Association

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For those working in the field of health and social care there has rightly been a shift in focus towards ‘living well’ with dementia, not just about confirming a diagnosis. Although dementia is progressive, much can be done to improve …