Features
Creature comfort
Our pets make us smile and laugh – but they might also help improve the health of the nation. Should CPs be making greater use of animal-assisted therapy?
October feedback
A new national campaign promotes hot drink safety around children, plus your chance to apply for funding to improve your practice.
Streamlining of the Mellow Parenting Observation System for research and non-specialist clinical use
Researchers Lucy Thompson, Gerry King, Eleanor Taylor, Christine Puckering and Phil Wilson explored whether a streamlined version of a tool to assess parent-child interactions provided comparable data to the full system and gathered feedback from health visitors.
News
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Wales: ‘Test and post’ sexual health pilot scheme extended
A scheme allowing self-testing for chlamydia and gonorrhoea at home has been extended for six months following a successful pilot.
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England: New parents with mental health problems could be overlooked, says NSPCC
About one in four new parents in England are not seeing a health visitor when their baby turns one, increasing the risk of mental health problems going unnoticed, the NSPCC says.
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UK loses measles-free status: health leaders to renew efforts
The government has set out measures to improve vaccination rates after the UK lost its measles-free status with the World Health Organization.
Regional/CountryImmunisation & illness
Resources
A randomised controlled trial of the Solihull Approach ten-week group for parents: ‘Understanding your child’s behaviour’ (UYCB).
Hazel Douglas and Rebecca Johnson assess the impact of a parenting programme based on the Solihull Approach on child behaviour, parental emotional health and child-parent relationships, which addresses previous studies’ methodological weaknesses.
How can vulnerable young people have improved access to the School Nurses?
This qualitative research by Dawn Marie Blake, explore young people’s views around accessing school nurse drop-ins.
A Systematic review of the effectiveness of infant massage programmes in improving mother and infant attachment and dyadic attunement.
Rebecca Balakrishna, Melanie Teixeira, Jane Meyrick and Roxanne Hart sought to answer this question with a systematic review of the evidence from studies across 36 years.
Opinion
The big question: How can I benefit from going to the Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference?
This month we ask: How can I benefit from going to the Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference?
24 hours with Andrea Sutcliffe
Andrea is chief executive and registrar of the NMC, in charge of more than 800 staff on five sites.
Rights at work: What’s new in the Spending Review?
Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe, Unite national officer for health, crunches the numbers from September’s spending review and asks if they really add up for the NHS.
Community Practitioner
In Depth
Is there a crisis of childhood?
Children in the UK are buckling as a result of unprecedented social pressures, political turmoil and a void in government policies that should keep them safe and well, says a recent report. Journalist Jo Waters asks what can be done to help avert a crisis.
Promoted Content
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.
On the edge
The suicide rate in the UK may be going down, but three times more men than women took their own life last year. Journalist Sarah Campbell asks what’s going on and how you can make a difference.
