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Research by the children's commissioner for England reveals extent to which the children and young people referred to mental health services are waiting to receive the support they need.
‘GPs and health practitioners have issued an urgent warning to parents to vaccinate their children, after a huge spike in the number of cases of whooping cough in the UK in recent months.’ .
The ‘Supporting a Child with ADHD’ SilverCloud programme has been designed for parents and carers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is a neuro-affirming programme...
‘School nurses utilise their clinical judgement and public health expertise to identify health needs early, determine potential risk, and provide early intervention to prevent issues from...
‘Schools are well placed as a setting to deliver early and preventative mental health interventions to large numbers of children and adolescents… However, the effectiveness of school-based...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the degree of professional satisfaction in nurses working in paediatric hospitals of tertiary care, as well as the factors affecting these parameters in...
The NMC's updated standards, notably the Part 3 Standards for post-registration programmes (NMC, 2024a) and the Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (NMC, 2024b)...
‘A new and popular feature at the congress was the opportunity to “borrow a researcher”. Here, school nurses could informally discuss their practice and ideas for research with an established...
Adolescent and adult anxieties tend to revolve around both personal issues such as peer relationships, school and exams and global or existential issues such as climate change, war, economic crises...
We often struggle to explain our role, measure the impact and value, so how can we expect others to fully understand the importance of what we do compared to a safeguarding procedure? This lack of...
This new study analysed the outcomes of using an Infant–Toddler Checklist (ITC) in child health services in Sweden in toddlers aged 18 months. The authors note that disorders involving language and...
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