‘My health visitor was my fourth emergency service’, Rebecca, a mum, told a packed auditorium in the final session of our recent sharing and mobilising conference on 27th February in London. As Head of Implementation of the national Health Visitor …
Career choice is one of the most important decisions in anyone’s life; we know career choices amongst young people can be influenced by so many factors including life experiences, family and peers. Within nursing we know that we need the …
To ensure that the health and social care systems are prepared for the changing health needs of people with learning disabilities the four home countries’ government lead nurses initiated a review into learning disabilities nursing. ‘Strengthening the commitment: the report …
In her guest blog Pauline Watts, Professional Officer for Health Visiting, sets out some of the recent improvements to training. Welcome to my guest blog where I intend to provide regular updates on the Health Visiting Programme, particularly around Professional …
Care is our business, and providing care in community settings - closer to home for our vulnerable and frail elderly population is clearly a priority for us all, but one particularly for district nursing services. We also need to remember …
Drawing on contributions and input from around 9,000 nurses, midwives care staff and patients, we are delighted to launch Compassion in Practice, the new three-year plan. Our enduring values for high quality care and good health and wellbeing are set …
Thank you for all the helpful comments on the Nursing & Midwifery Vision and Strategy and to those who participated in WeNurses Tweetchat last week. Those taking part felt that more information to inform tomorrow's Tweetchat in respect of 'action …
I know that many of you, especially midwives, health visitors, practice nurses and others working with pregnant women, will already be informed about this programme. However, we know that people often ask us questions about current health issues because we …
This guest blog, from my colleague Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for Nursing focuses on developments in District Nursing This week I attended a celebration of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) 125th Anniversary. As soon as I arrived I felt a …
I have been heartened and inspired by the commitment of a wide range of external partners to support and contribute to the health visiting agenda. The shared hearts and minds, working together to improve outcomes for children, families and communities …
