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Behaviour Change Interventions School Nurse Toolkit by Sean Mackay
School nurses are busy. Busy and innovative, using their creativity to tackle local issues in novel ways. They see a problem, decide on a local strategy to tackle it, and have a go. Perhaps the intervention works, or perhaps it …
Mandation to continue for universal service five health visiting contacts: supporting the best start in life
We know that what happens in pregnancy and early childhood impacts on physical and emotional health throughout childhood and into adult life. PHE evidence into action sets out the importance of children being ready to learn at 2 and ready …
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation – join the conversation - by Wendy Nicholson
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Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM, lead organisations including PHE, DH and NHS England have joined forces to support the day – however, it’s more than one single day. FGM isn’t just an international issue; FGM affected …
Learning, reflections and social media - a journey not to be missed? by Wendy Nicholson
We are embarking on a new journey! PHE and #Wecommunities are exploring new ways of learning and professionally developing using social media. So please welcome…… 'WeLearn - Lifelong learning into practice’. So what’s new? Well this is not a traditional …
Networking – an Art or Science?: health visiting and school nurse networking events
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Blogs, Getting it Right for Children and Young People, Health Visiting, School Nursing, Uncategorized
Our forthcoming health visitor and school nurse networking events are crammed packed with speakers who are leading lights in safeguarding and experts in service improvements through service user engagement. We also have interactive workshops addressing a plethora of public health …
The Twelve Days of an All Our Health Christmas
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All Our Health, Blogs, population health, Protecting Health, Reducing health inequalities
What do we mean when we say Happy Christmas and Happy New Year? For many people this includes good wishes for good health in the year ahead and gratitude for good health enjoyed and/or care received in the year just …
Asthma, Prevention and Preparing for Winter by Jo Massey
Like many others in the NHS, autumn and winter are undoubtedly the busiest seasons for us in the Children’s Asthma Service at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. Our service was commissioned to reduce the number of asthma-related A&E attendances and …
Winter Preparedness by Helen Kirk
There's a definite chill in the air now. It's dark when I head to work and nearly dark when I get back home. "Winter is coming" as they say in Game of Thrones (a hit TV series for those still …
Staying well this winter. It's more tricky than I thought...... for my dad that is - by Joanne Bosanquet
Two years ago in early December, my 80 year old dad, who by the way believes he is not yet 80 and flies around the place like a much younger version of himself, fell ill. He has a chronic respiratory …
Infection Control and Communicable Disease Prevention in the Special School Nurseries and Childcare settings by Helen Friend
Following a summer outbreak of viral gastroenteritis in a special school setting in West Yorkshire, which was particularly long running in nature, a request was received from a school cluster of 8 special schools within the West Yorkshire area as …
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