Oral health is part of general health and families can really help to give children’s teeth a great start and protect them from tooth decay. Start brushing your baby's teeth with fluoride toothpaste as soon as the first milk tooth …
Welcome to day two our week on helping families and giving children and young people the best start to life. This short blog is to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may …
Following our week of action, Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges, and to coincide with NHS Change Day (3rd March 2014), I am please to be able to post this supportive RCN statement on antimicrobial Resistance. This is …
The fifth and final day of our week of action on health protection! We set out to make this vital function visible and especially to set out some of the successes and challenges for the nursing and midwifery professions. We …
On the final day of our week of action, Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges, we have a blog from Wendy Nicholson, DH Professional Officer for School and Community Nursing, on building resilience in children, young people and …
Today, as part of our week of action, Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges, we have the opportunity to consider mental health. In this blog Dr Ben Thomas, Professional Officer for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Dementia at …
Day Five of our Week of Action – 28th February, Friday This short ‘blog’ is just to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book for later in the week …
Our second blog of the day on tuberculosis is by a new member of our team, Jean Christensen, Professional Officer for Nursing and Midwifery Care, and reflects on both a personal connection to this disease and the particular elements …
To commence our themed day on tuberculosis as part of ‘Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges,’ I am delighted to introduce a blog by Dr Paul Cosford, Director for Health Protection and Medical Director at Public Health England: …
Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges David Foster, Deputy Director of Nursing at DH, offers his experiences and views on what health protection means for midwives. It all came rushing back: the sticky carpet, the tatty curtains, the smoke, …
