As the Chief Public Health Nurse and Chief Nursing Officer we are passionate about maximising and valuing the role of nursing, midwifery and care staff to improve health outcomes for individual people and at the population level. This is set …
An important part of our Public Mental Health programme is to ensure the workforce has the knowledge and skills to promote mental health, prevent mental illness and suicide and to improve the health and wellbeing of people with mental illness. …
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 …
My blog earlier in the week ( http://bit.ly/T2EF9v )focused on defining MECC and giving a sense of what’s happening at the national level to support this important agenda. Here I focus on some great examples of how MECC is being delivered …
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 …
We know Making Every Contact Count (MECC), including behaviour change interventions, can lead to improvements in people’s health and well-being, reduce avoidable premature mortality linked to poor lifestyle choices, reduce health inequalities and help people better manage long term conditions. …
In the fourth of our series of blogs from the Week of Action on Helping People to Stay Independent, Maximising Well-being and Improving Health Outcomes, David Foster, Deputy Director of Nursing at the Department of Health, shares his experiences of seeing a health visitor and midwives …
More activity and information to bring to your attention as part of our Week of Action on Action Area One of the nursing, midwifery and care staff strategy, Compassion in Practice. Below we have details of a tweeter chat (1) that is taking place …
Introducing Joanne Bosanquet MBE, Deputy Director of Nursing at Public Health England and why she is making every contact count - first in a series of blogs from our Week of Action on Helping People to Stay Independent, Maximising Well-being and …
