If only the cab driver had been a district nurse he would have known the way from Mottingham station to the Leg Club. It shouldn’t have been so difficult to find. Even with the post code in the sat nav …
What has #stopthepressure, a campaign to prevent pressure ulcers, and public health nursing got in common? You may wonder? You may think I've lost the plot but hopefully, in the next five minutes, I can convince you that public health …
At Brook we like and trust young people and are committed to upholding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – a foundation that underpins everything we do as the UK’s leading sexual health charity for young people. …
Welcome to the 3rd day in our week of action 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 …
Visit to Liz Alderton, district nurse North East London NHS Foundation Trust She’s as fit as a whippet. I’m not. She can run a marathon. I can run a bath. She’s a district nurse, a Queen’s Nurse and an extraordinary …
This week of action with a focus on health improvement and health promotion provides a great opportunity to highlight the importance of Healthy Start vitamins. If you have a role in providing services for families, as a commissioner or practitioner, …
Over 40 years ago the use of evidence to guide nursing and midwifery practice was no more than an aspiration proposed by those who sought to reduce the gap between theory and practice. Fast forward 40 years and we now …
The NHS is going through difficult times, with financial pressures increasing and increasing ageing and complexity of populations. It is becoming clearer to all of us that the only solutions to the problems we all face are going to have …
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 …
Welcome to the 2nd day in our week of action 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 …
