Debbie Watson, Assistant Director of Population Health, Tameside and Glossop Strategic Commission writes about the value of commissioning services that use relational and strengths-based approaches.
Clare McKenzie, Senior Public Health Commissioner - Children, describes how the FNP programme delivers value as part of a mixed set of services offered to vulnerable families in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Daisy Townson, Supervisor FNP Hounslow, writes about how her team of family nurses makes a difference as part of a wider ecosystem of commissioned health and social care provision.
Sarah Tyndall, Clinical Quality Lead, FNP National Unit, discusses the challenge of improving domestic abuse outcomes for children and families.
Lynne Reed, Head of Quality Improvement, FNP National Unit writes about what we learnt from a recent quality improvement project to help more young mums to stop smoking in pregnancy
Amy Williams, Project Manager, FNP National Unit describes how Building quality improvement capacity in the Family Nurse Partnership National Unit is part of our strategy to ensure continuous improvement in the FNP programme in England through the applied use of quality improvement methodology.
Children are learning already before birth. By 17 weeks gestation, the foetus will have learned how to co-ordinate simple motor movements on the basis of the neurological feedback received from gravity and pressure from the uterine wall. By 29 weeks, the unborn child will be able to discriminate differences in language sounds through listening to the tones coming from the mother’s voice.
I don’t have to cast my mind back too far into my public sector career to remember a time when the interplay between the early years, health and wellbeing, education and long-term employment was not as well recognised as it is now, in theory or in practice.
During pregnancy, birth and the early years much of our attention is centred on mother and baby, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the important contribution that fathers can make or the challenges they face.
Fathers in prison: although physically removed from their children, their impact is so very significant.
