Features
Adopting a better approach
Adoption is only the start of a new journey that can be both rewarding and challenging. How can you help support adoptive families? Journalist Rima Evans reports.
NHS pay – one step at a time
The basic pay journey of NHS staff has had a reset. Sarah Carpenter, Unite’s head of health, asks how the new framework for pay progression affects you.
Health visitor feedback on a structured, behavioural training for working with families of children with behaviour problems
Margiad Williams and Judy Hutchings questioned HVs who delivered a skills programme for parents to effectively address behavioural problems.
News
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Delegates told of ‘savage’ cuts to services
Cuts made to health visitors, school nurses and community nursery nurses were described as ‘savage’ and ‘another betrayal of our children’ by shadow health and social care secretary Jonathan Ashworth at the Unite/CPHVA conference last week.
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Unite-CPHVA conference app launched
An app providing delegates with up-to-date information and news before and during the annual professional conference 2018 has been launched.
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Wales: smacking ban splits public down the middle
Public opinion is divided on proposals for a smacking ban.
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Resources
The mother-infant bond: A systematic review of research that includes mothers’ subjective experience of the relationship
Elizabeth Milne, Sally Johnson, Gill Waters and Neil Small explored mothers’ interpretations of their infants’ behaviour, and the impact of ‘mind-mindedness’, or treating a baby as an individual with a mind.
An integrated targeted intervention to prevent obesity in infants born into a diverse community
Julie Greenway, Lynne Thompson and Sally Cornfield explore whether a nutrition and healthy-living course for mothers could influence three misleading beliefs that can lead to childhood obesity.
The role of sexual health nurses in identifying child sexual exploitation
Ann Marie Sangster, Dr Maureen Crowley, and Amanda McGrandles explore sexual health nurses’ perceptions of their role in the identification of children and young people at risk of sexual exploitation, using an interpretivist generic qualitative approach.
Opinion
The big question: do you see a positive future for specialist community public health nurses (SCPHNs)?
Kathryn Waldegrave and Lisa Webster discuss whether or not they see a positive future for specialist community public health nurses (SCPHNs).
24 hours with Louise Wolstenholme
Louise is a health visitor and practice teacher within the 0-19 service at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, working in Roma health.
Community Practitioner
In Depth
The future of practice
How might current and future technology developments impact on the way you carry out your work now and in the future? And how could this affect your clients? Journalist Peter Crush reports.
