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Closing the word gap – The leadership role of health visitors by Wendy Nicholson

  Health visitors play a crucial role in helping families ensure that their children can thrive throughout the early years and beyond. Here we set out PHE’s work to support health visitors to make an even greater difference to the …

WeLearn #AllOurHealth 2019 – Registration is NOW open! By Teresa Chinn MBE & Prof Jamie Waterall

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    WeLearn #AllOurHealth 2019 – Registration is open! All Our Health is a framework of evidence to guide health care professionals in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing, a really useful resource for health care professionals from all walks …

Sally Batley poses a question - Health visitors… ‘our fourth emergency service’ ?

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‘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 …

Pauline Watts on Strengthening Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Health Visitor Training

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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 …

Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for Nursing, reports on a new vision and model for district nursing

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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 …