Linda Hindle, Lead Allied Health professional for Public Health England, writes about her visit to the Children’s Occupational Therapy Service in Birmingham City Council as part of the week of action. Speaking to Allied Health Professionals (AHPS) over the last …
It is exciting to have this third week of action on public health nursing and the opportunity to promote and showcase the work nurses and midwives can do to improve health and advocate in health promotion. Nurses and Midwives have …
A year after the Secretary of State published Living Well for Longer: A Call to Action on Reducing Premature Avoidable Mortality, we published the follow-up. Our document – Living Well for Longer: National Support for Local Action to Reduce Premature …
As another Carer’s Week (9th to 15th June) passes, I reflect that England’s 5.4 million carers (expected to rise to 9 million by 2037) are the true pioneers (and partners) in ensuring that our relatives do indeed live well, live …
When I first started school I learnt to write on a slate with a piece of chalk and was later allowed to progress to a pen (a stick with a metal nib on the end) and ink – with real …
If only the cab driver had been a district nurse he would have known the way from Mottingham station to the Leg Club. It shouldn’t have been so difficult to find. Even with the post code in the sat nav …
What has #stopthepressure, a campaign to prevent pressure ulcers, and public health nursing got in common? You may wonder? You may think I've lost the plot but hopefully, in the next five minutes, I can convince you that public health …
Visit to Liz Alderton, district nurse North East London NHS Foundation Trust She’s as fit as a whippet. I’m not. She can run a marathon. I can run a bath. She’s a district nurse, a Queen’s Nurse and an extraordinary …
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 …
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 …
