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Health Visiting: You said - We Did - We Will
Parent feedback is invaluable to create a health visiting service that is right for our families. Local services use various ways to make sure parents' views are collected and acted on and the Department of Health has been collating feedback …
Personal observations of A Call to Action from the Taskforce perspective by Dame Liz Fradd
The Health Visiting Taskforce which was created in 2011 to support delivery of the Governments Health Visitor Plan – “A call to Action” by acting as an independent champion for the programme. I have had the privilege of acting as …
Helping school nurses to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE) - Wendy Nicholson
Child sexual exploitation is a highly sensitive issue and often a taboo subject. Many professionals find it difficult to talk about the subject and others feel they just don’t have the expertise to tackle such an complex issue. Child sexual …
Four levels of health visiting service: Dealing with deprivation and domestic abuse, Stockport
The new health visiting service model offers both universal support and more targeted support, depending on the needs of the family. In cases of domestic abuse, health visitors often help give targeted services to families, and can be a key …
A new project: health visitors supporting A & E in times of need by Julia Neall
The December 2013 Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) report on A&E highlighted that the highest percentages of visits to A&E are for the very young and elderly. A large percentage of these visits are for children aged 0-5 years …
Child Health Inequalities by Alison Burton
The UK is 16th out of 29 in the UNICEF league table of child well-being in the world’s rich countries. This is an improvement since the data was first compiled in 2007 when UK was the lowest ranking country, but …
Opportunities for the future: FNP – an integral piece of the prevention pathway by Ailsa Swarbrick
In 2013, the Government committed to increasing the number of Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) places available at any one time to 16,000 by March 2015. We're on track to hit that target this month and reach between 25 – 30% …
A multi-agency approach to speech and language therapy – Health visitors and children’s centres working together by Diane Leith
The six high impact areas articulate the contribution of health visitors to the 0-5 agenda and describe areas where health visitors have a significant impact on health and wellbeing and improving outcomes for children, families and communities. One of these …
Ages and stages questionnaire – making it even more family friendly by Claire Walker
The six high impact areas articulate the contribution of health visitors to the 0-5 agenda and describe areas where health visitors have a significant impact on health and wellbeing and improving outcomes for children, families and communities. One of these …
The 4-5-6 Model of the Transformed Health Visiting Service by Viv Bennett
Health visiting services have undergone rapid growth and transformation. We have found that knowledge and understanding of the service has not always kept up and health visitors and partners wanted a simple way of encompassing the reach and impact of …
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