Features
NHS: access for all?
Could privatisation spell disaster for the principles of the NHS, or open up possibilities of more effective partnerships? Award-winning health journalist Danny Buckland reports.
The big question: the NHS at 70. What's your view?
Three members offer their views on the NHS at 70, professionally and personally.
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.
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Breastfeeding: what's blocking the message?
What’s being done (and what can be done) to improve low breastfeeding rates around the UK? Journalist Radhika Holmström investigates.
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Social media can raise children's unhealthy snack intake
Research from the University of Liverpool has highlighted the negative influence that social media can have on children’s food intake.
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Poor sleep in childhood linked to 'bad' cholesterol
Good sleepers in childhood may be healthier adults, according to University of Helsinki research that looked at the effects of different sleep patterns on the health of 1049 adolescents.
ResearchHealth and wellbeing
Resources
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.
Evaluating group work for supporting the emotional wellbeing of young people in care
Una Foye, Emily Satinsky, Camilla Rosan and Josefien Breedvelt examine the My Life, My Future programme that was set up to boost the emotional wellbeing and resilience of looked-after young people.
Evaluating the impact of the 5 pillars of parenting programme: A novel parenting intervention for Muslim families
Universal parenting intervention courses often fail to recruit and retain Muslim families. Kathryn Thomson, Hanan Hussein, Kathleen Roche-Nagi and Ruth Butterworth evaluated the impact of the faith-based Five Pillars of Parenting programme.
Opinion
The MacQueen Bursary award
The MacQueen Bursary award enables attendance at the Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference 2018 (in Bournemouth on 17 and 18 October).
Florence Nightingale commemoration event
I was lucky enough to attend the Florence Nightingale commemoration event at Westminster Abbey to represent Wales, along with Karen Jewell (nursing officer for maternity and early years, Welsh Government), Amanda Holland (CPHVA deputy chair for Wales), Jean White (Chief Nursing Officer for Wales) – and hundreds of nurses and student nurses from all over the UK, as well as from the armed forces.
Afternoon at the Royal Garden Party
On 5 June, Norma Dudley (below, left) and I had the privilege of representing the CPHVA as guests at the Royal Garden Party.
Community Practitioner
In Depth
Technology: friend or foe?
The ever-changing digital world can save businesses money and time, so why should healthcare be left behind? Or is the picture more complex than that? Award-winning health journalist Danny Buckland reports.
