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Public Health Nursing and Protecting Health: an Historical look back by Helen Donovan
Historically, public health was primarily concerned with the management of sanitation and disease. Over the twentieth century, the focus of public health shifted towards how individuals respond to health concerns. This includes how we as individuals manage and look after …
Antimicrobial stewardship: The critical role of nurses and midwives by Karen Shaw
Global threat of AMR We all face extremely challenging times as the serious threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) increases. The leaders of the G20 group of countries met in September 2016 and acknowledged the gravity of the threat of AMR …
Welcome to #ProtectAoH - Protecting All Our Health - Joanne Bosanquet
This week is a call to action. It is a call for all nurses, midwives, care staff and our colleagues across the system to pause and think about your role in promoting health and wellbeing, preventing ill health and protecting …
Launch of new guidance - Educating Occupational Health Nurses
To ensure occupational health nurses have their education aligned to a service vision, we are proud to launch today, following work with a number of partners and stakeholders, a new guidance document called: Educating Occupational Health Nurses. As well as setting out the …
Thank you to all who contributed to #Health5to19
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So it’s Friday and we come to the end of our week of action focussing on children and young people 5-19. During #health5to19 it has been great to have so many of you join us, to hear from so many …
Making a difference together - #health5to19
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It has been a busy week as usual but this week has been quite special; we have had a real focus on children and young people and how together we can make a difference. Whilst the focus was on 5-19, …
Blackpool young carers #YCMHWellbeing by Tara Bragg
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The Public Health England week of action #health5to19 is a great opportunity for us to share our young carers work from Blackpool. In case you don’t know a Young Carer is a child that cares for someone in their family …
Engaging and Listen to the Young by Iqra Ali
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Health care services play an important role in each and every individual’s life, including young people’s. This is why the young should be involved in making decisions regarding their care - they are not an add-on to the service but …
‘Cracking it’ by Harley Young
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Forrest Gump once said that life is like a box of chocolates, but if life is like a box of chocolates, then growing up must be like eating those chocolates upside down and immersed head first in a vat of …
A journey with Type 1 Diabetes by Anne Cooper
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I was 16 years old. Being 16 is a busy time and it certainly was for me; I was a school leaver and from recently separated parents. I had a new and very scary job in a bank. I started …
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