School Nurses play an important role in promoting healthy lifestyles and are well placed to influence and support positive behaviour change but we know as a small workforce for any enduring improvement a collaborative partnership approach has sustainability. We work …
We have talked about making the vital visible: that is making explicit and celebrating the input and impact of health and care practitioners (HCPs) on the public’s health through preventing avoidable illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing and resilience. Today …
Every day we hear messages about the importance of exercise and being active - it helps us to stay well for longer, can reduce the likelihood of heart disease, stroke, lower cholesterol and blood pressure and even reduce the likelihood …
It has well been established that physical activity in childhood has a strong positive relationship with reducing the onset of obesity and other chronic diseases in adulthood. However, until recently, little has been understood about the importance of physical activity …
For the person diagnosed with dementia, the word dementia is not a word it is a life sentence. The word itself strikes fear, helplessness, and hopelessness. Dementia not only takes away precious memories and functioning, but it eats at the …
