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Sally Batley poses a question - Health visitors… ‘our fourth emergency service’ ?

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‘My health visitor was my fourth emergency service’, Rebecca, a mum, told a packed auditorium in the final session of our recent sharing and mobilising conference on 27th February in London. As Head of Implementation of the national Health Visitor …

Read my guest blog for the The King’s Fund - Breaking down the boundaries in health and social care

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For increasing numbers of people, health and wellbeing is no longer a sub-conscious state requiring episodic contact with health services to fix something that is broken. Instead, it is a matter of active and ongoing – often lifelong – intervention …

Ben Thomas reports on progress - 'Strengthening the Commitment: implementing the recommendations from the UK Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing Review

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To ensure that the health and social care systems are prepared for the changing health needs of people with learning disabilities the four home countries’ government lead nurses initiated a review into learning disabilities nursing. ‘Strengthening the commitment: the report …

Anne Cooper’s guest blog connects patient experience, Compassion in Practice and ‘Intelligent Kindness’

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Last year I read a couple of great books that really made me think and focussed my mind on new ways of looking at the world.  One of those books was ‘Intelligent Kindness’ by John Ballant and Penelope Campling. It …

Pauline Watts on Strengthening Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Health Visitor Training

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In her guest blog Pauline Watts, Professional Officer for Health Visiting, sets out some of the recent improvements to training. Welcome to my guest blog where I intend to provide regular updates on the Health Visiting Programme, particularly around Professional …

Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for Nursing, reports on a new vision and model for district nursing

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Care is our business, and providing care in community settings - closer to home for our vulnerable and frail elderly population is clearly a priority for us all, but one particularly for district nursing services. We also need to remember …