Features
What lies ahead? The future of practice after Covid
Regardless of how much we dare to hope the beginning of the end of the pandemic is in sight, its ripple effects on the UK’s health and their implications for CPs are just starting. Journalist Anna Scott asks if Covid-19 has changed the professions’ methods forever.
MacQueen Bursary: rewarding hard work
Learn how winning a bursary award can progress your career: eight winners explain how it’s helped them to achieve more…
Improving accessibility of CAMHS groups within the Orthodox Jewish Community: A service evaluation of an adaptation of the Solihull Approach parenting group, ‘Understanding your child’s behaviour’
Beth Hill, Ashley Boscoe and Berocha de Lange ask if incorporating spiritual and cultural aspects of Orthodox Judaism into the Solihull Approach parenting group enhances its accessibility and efficacy.
News
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NMC expands temporary register
The NMC has announced further expansion of the Covid-19 temporary register to overseas-trained nurses (5 January 2021).
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Calls to extend self-harm intervention to primary school children
Three per cent of more than a thousand Melbourne children reported self-harm at age 11 and 12. They had been assessed annually from the age of eight to nine (wave 1) to 11 to 12 years (wave four) . Of those who self-harmed, 64.3% were females and 35.7% were males.
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Genetic risk of hypertension linked to pre-eclampsia
Researchers have found that the genetic predisposition to hypertension and increased BMI is related to the risk of pre-eclampsia.
ResearchGrowth and development
Resources
Ready to Relate – Themes from interviews with parents one to three years after having used the Ready to Relate cards with a professional
Jane Dickens and Lisa Milne evaluate an intervention using Ready to Relate parent-infant relationship resource cards with parents.
What are the views of frontline practitioners in regard to safeguarding supervision?
Author: Ann Guindi
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What are health visitors’ perceptions about offering support to parents who have suffered a stillbirth, neonatal death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
Yinka Ogunbanjo explores how health visitors perceive their role in supporting bereaved parents through focus groups and one-to-one interviews.
Opinion
Tribute to Betsi Cadwaladr
A look at the life and legacy of the brave, determined and pioneering Welsh nurse who cared for soldiers in the Crimean War.
Members are moving on up
Discover fantastic member achievements, and more student updates.
Rights at work: time for cash, not claps
Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe, Unite national officer for health, sets out Unite-CPHVA’s position on pay.
Community Practitioner
In Depth
Student CPs: lessons in resilience
How student health visitors and school nurses found that learning during a pandemic proved to be positive and empowering.
Promoted Content
Alarm bells ringing: the adult care crisis
Successive governments have failed to stop the rot in the adult social care system, and it is now approaching crisis point. As we go to the polls, journalist Linsey Wynton explores what’s at fault, what’s needed and how urgently.
What do you see?
Negative body image is an issue for children and adults alike. What’s the impact, and how can you help? Journalist Anna Scott reports.
Time for a screen break?
Concerns have been raised that digital devices are now a fundamental part of so many children’s lives, but are there mixed messages around the impact on young people? And how can you help parents navigate the advice? Journalist Georgina Fuller reports.
