We all know that what happens in pregnancy and early childhood impacts on physical and emotional health through into adulthood. It is important, however, that we don’t only focus on the youngest children. Between the ages of 5 and 24 …
The i-HOP research team recently visited the University of Manchester to talk to a group of nursing students. We felt our subject matter was particularly suited to their conference, ‘Caring for Children on the Margins’, because offenders’ children are often …
Female genital mutilation affects around 200 million women across the world and almost all of these women will have been cut as children, many of them at school age. But FGM isn’t just an international issue, many young girls here …
Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of death amongst children and young people age 5-19. In fact they are the leading cause of death amongst females age 5-19 and the second leading cause of death amongst males of this …
Every day when I finish work I take a moment to reflect on the day and its event’s. I always end on the same note feeling privileged to be a part of a school nursing team. School Nursing (SN) is …
The Association for Young People's Health (AYPH) is pleased to launch a toolkit for school nurses, as part of Public Health England's school nurse team week of action. The toolkit, produced with support from Public Health England, has been designed …
Poor oral health can affect a child’s emotional, physical and educational development. By the time children in England start school a quarter of them have tooth decay and those who have it, have on average 3-4 decayed teeth. Tooth decay …
Whenever you hear a statistic quoted about the high levels of obesity in our primary school children, it is almost certainly a figure that has been reported through the National Child Measurement Programme. On 3rd November, NHS Digital (hyper link: …
Thanks to the huge efforts of councils, their health partners and frontline practitioners to equip young people with good information and early advice, the under-18 conception rate has fallen by 51% since 1998. However, rates young people remain at highest …
Nurses play an important role in raising awareness about the benefits of immunisation. Despite current high immunisation uptake rates in infants and children, we are still seeing cases of and clusters of measles in teenagers and young adults. This is …
