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Keeping children safe from button batteries during the festive season and beyond Keeping children safe from harm is everyone’s business and we are urging all healthcare professionals and those working with children and young families to work with us …
All Our Health - Protecting People from Infections This week, we are celebrating World Antibiotic Awareness Week (#WAAW) and the theme for this year is ‘Change can’t wait: our time with antibiotics is running …
‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together’ (African Proverb) Making a difference It is an exciting time to be an infant feeding coordinator, turned midwifery lecturer, working in the University of …
We all want to keep children safe wherever they are and we know that accidents are most likely to happen to children in the home and on the roads. Healthcare and other professionals have an important role to play in …
PHE is always keen to collaborate and ensure the public have a voice in our decision making, particularly for the work we do that impacts them directly – we have always been keen to ensure this extends to young people. …
Breast screening started in the UK in 1988 and has had an enormous impact on the lives of women, providing them with the choice to seek reassurance on their health and pick up any signs of cancer at an early …
School nurses are busy. Busy and innovative, using their creativity to tackle local issues in novel ways. They see a problem, decide on a local strategy to tackle it, and have a go. Perhaps the intervention works, or perhaps it …
Our forthcoming health visitor and school nurse networking events are crammed packed with speakers who are leading lights in safeguarding and experts in service improvements through service user engagement. We also have interactive workshops addressing a plethora of public health …
Today I've been at a Young People's Champion Event held in Richmond House and met a range of wonderful and inspiring young people who have contributed to the school nurse work programme over the last year . The champions consist …