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Declining health and wellbeing and deteriorating services

In the last issue, I talked about SAPHNA's collaboration with The QNI and College of Medicine which led to a roundtable event which took place in December. This launched the campaign for ‘a school...

Research roundup: April 2024

This US study explored key environmental resources and their effect on the healthy cognitive, socio-emotional and neurological development of a child in their first 3 years of life..

NEWS

Ameasure of obesity in children and adolescents that could replace body mass index (BMI) has been identified in a new study as waist circumference-to-height ratio. This detected excess fat mass and...

Stammering in children

It is recognised that many individuals who stammer have greater levels of empathy and compassion for others, strength of character and resilience « .

How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect wellbeing of staff working in child and family teams?

The study adopted an evaluative, mixed-method design which involved two datasets. First, a quantitative secondary analysis of anonymised routine patient data was drawn from the past 5 years as a...

Reducing the environmental impact of inhalers in primary care

The primary aim of this review was to establish how to implement sustainable inhaler changes without compromising patient care and disease control in the primary care setting. This includes a review...

Promoting vaccination uptake

» The strategy focuses on four core components that are required to maintain elimination going forward, which includes achieving and sustaining 95% coverage « .

‘A significant loss of expertise’ – campaign to reverse 'steep decline' in school nurses

A campaign for a school nurse in every school has been launched in a bid to reverse a ‘steep decline’ that has seen a 33% fall in the number of school nurses since 2009. A new report – based on a...

Research roundup: March 2024

This study aimed to quantify the characteristics of children under the age of 2 years admitted to neonatal units (NNUs) and paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The researchers conducted a study...

NEWS

The total number of children, adolescents and adults worldwide living with obesity has surpassed one billion, according to a global analysis published in The Lancet. These trends, together with the...

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