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#BestStart0to19 - Welcome to our Week of Action - Viv Bennett
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Welcome to our week of action on getting it right for all our children and young people (#BestStart0to19). This week marks a watershed with the formal, final stage of the transfer of commissioning of 0-5yr public health services to local …
#BestStart0to19 - Join our Week of Action on Getting it Right for All Our Children and Young People: 28th Sept to 2nd Oct
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Viv Bennett, Posted on:
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0-5 transfer to LAs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People
Join us next week, 28th Sept to 2nd Oct, for our ‘Week of Action’ #BestStart0to19 on getting it right for all our children and young people. #Beststart0to19 is about giving all our children and young people the best start in …
Roll on October! Completion of the Public Health Transfer to Local Authorities - Mark Rogers, Birmingham City Council
October sees the completion of the public health transfer to local authorities, with the responsibilities for 0-5 year olds at last coming our way. It feels like it's been a long journey to this point, from half a dozen or …
Making the Vital Visible - Guest blog by Dr Cheryll Adams, Institute of Health Visiting
I believe that health visiting is at its best when it’s building strong communities and community assets, as this provides important health benefits for many people at once. For example, consider the public health benefit from health visitor initiatives such …
“Ready to learn, ready for life”: The central role of health visitors, by Alison Morton
Health visitors were delighted to receive a resounding endorsement from Sir Michael Wilshaw for their central role in ensuring all children are “Ready to learn at two and Ready for school at five”. In a speech to launch the recently …
Introducing the new ‘My Heart Age’ tool - by Jamie Waterall
I wanted to share with you a very exciting new digital tool, which Public Health England has developed in partnership with the Joint British Society, British Heart Foundation and NHS Choices. My Heart Age uses the JBS3 guidelines to allow …
TRANSFORMING HEALTH VISITING: THANK YOU TO THE PROFESSION, PARTNERS AND PARENTS
The health visiting service has been transformed in recent years to improve access, experience, outcomes and contribute to reducing health inequalities. This is the story of what's been achieved through more health visitors and renewed vision. Follow @VivJBennett or https://vivbennett.blog.gov.uk/
We’re ‘Here for Health’ – Improving population health at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Providers of acute NHS health care services have the potential to play a much broader role than is often recognised in improving and maintaining the health of populations. At Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, we have committed to not just …
Health visitor and 0-5 transfer programme: case studies
During our recent 'weeks' under the hashtag #healthvisiting we've been show-casing some of the excellent work being done by health visitors across the country as part professional practice and leadership to transform services. I'm delighted to say that we have now also published …
Conferment of 150 Health Visitors as Fellows of the Institute of Health Visiting
Last night we celebrated the conferment of 150 health visitors as Fellows of the Institute of Health Visiting. The very successful national programme for Health Visiting completes its work in June. Local leadership and expertise is vital for successful, sustainable services. I …
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