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Vitamins for a Healthy Start by Tricia Morris
This week of action with a focus on health improvement and health promotion provides a great opportunity to highlight the importance of Healthy Start vitamins. If you have a role in providing services for families, as a commissioner or practitioner, …
Evidence for Practice – knowing WHAT to do, HOW and WHY to do it - Rita Newland
Over 40 years ago the use of evidence to guide nursing and midwifery practice was no more than an aspiration proposed by those who sought to reduce the gap between theory and practice. Fast forward 40 years and we now …
Personalised Care - the Challenge for the 21st Century - Dr Charles Alessi
The NHS is going through difficult times, with financial pressures increasing and increasing ageing and complexity of populations. It is becoming clearer to all of us that the only solutions to the problems we all face are going to have …
The importance of the contribution of nursing, midwifery and the Allied Health Professions to population health by Kevin Fenton
Nurses and midwives are the largest group of health professionals at work in the UK. Together with allied health professionals (AHPs), they number over 800,000. I think it’s fair to say that public health simply isn’t going to happen, at …
Day Two Activity - Health Improvement and Health Promoting Practitioners
Welcome to the 2nd day in our week of action on health improvement and health promoting practitioners This short blog is to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book …
Experiences from the Frontline - Barchester Care Homes - David Foster
Personalised care at Barchester Care Homes Despite the drizzle the Range Rovers were as sparkling and new as though they were still in a showroom. This was clearly an affluent street in Wimbledon, lined, beyond the cars, by well-appointed Victorian …
Personalised Care and Population Health in a Care Home Setting - Kate Hall and Laura Simpson
In this blog we discuss the importance of health improvement and supporting health and wellbeing in a care home setting and how as care home managers we support our staff to make this happen. We do this through telling the …
Making Every Contact Count: Taking a System Wide Approach - Sophie Taysom
We know Making Every Contact Count (MECC), including behaviour change interventions, can lead to improvements in people’s health and well-being, reduce avoidable premature mortality linked to poor lifestyle choices, reduce health inequalities and help people better manage long term conditions. …
AHPs - Are you a health promoting practitioner? - Linda Hindle and Alison Raw
Are you a health promoting practitioner? This question was asked at several conferences recently and the initial response revealed that only 20% of AHPs in the audience viewed themselves as such. This low response wasn’t because AHPs are not acting …
We're All Health Promoting Practitioners - Viv Bennett
Welcome to our third week of action about ‘Personalised Care and Population Health,’ our national programme about the nursing, midwifery, health visiting and AHP contribution to public health. This week focuses on health improvement and the importance of being ‘health …
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