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This new study analysed the outcomes of using an Infant–Toddler Checklist (ITC)...
The Cleft Registry and Audit Network (CRANE) database, set up by the Department of Health in 2000, forms part of the national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Clinical...
» Along with maturity and intelligence will also be the professional's own ability to assess whether the child can understand aspects of choices to be made « .
‘Practice assessors need to be prepared and supported to facilitate students to recognise and analyse complexity and the judgments, decisions and actions required for practice at increasingly high...
Following the data collection and analysis, two themes relevant to health visiting practice were produced..
A free revalidation portfolio and CPD resource for nurses and midwives.
Due to its widespread applications in various fields, antibiotics are continuously released into the environment and ultimately enter the human body through diverse routes. The authors of this study...
» Severe lupus may be treated with immunosuppressants or other drugs used more rarely, such as immunoglobulin and cyclosporin A « .
The Maternal and Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) programme is a structured model of health visiting designed for families needing additional support through targeted or specialist...
There are missed opportunities to establish consistent health foundations, but nutrition and diet during pre-conception and pregnancy can have a substantive impact on health and wellbeing during...
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..
It is recognised that many individuals who stammer have greater levels of empathy and compassion for others, strength of character and resilience « .
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...
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...
» The strategy focuses on four core components that are required to maintain elimination going forward, which includes achieving and sustaining 95% coverage « .
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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...
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...
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