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...
» One of the outcomes of shadowing Queen's Nurses has been a commitment to investing in the training of more health visitors by a future Labour government « .
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...
‘[The report] said that there were huge variations in the quality and quantity of training given to teachers, and that parents could never be sure how safe their children were. Appropriate...
The Act covers many avenues of child protection, but it is not expected to directly change safeguarding responsibilities for teachers – although those teaching relationships and sex education (RSE)...
The pupils received written and oral information about the study's purpose, the right to refrain from answering any question and about the possibility to withdraw participation at any time without any...
Research around social media has found that it can cause negative feelings toward oneself, especially in children and young people. In fact, the Mental Health Foundation (2019) found in one of its...
‘Of those whose reasons for referral were known, the most common issues were anxiety, ‘reaching crisis’, neurodevelopmental conditions (excluding autism), depression, and self-harm. However,...
We tend to think of depression as primarily a problem in adolescence. Indeed, it is most commonly first diagnosed in the teenage years (Pile et al, 2020; RCPsych, 2022). But does depression really...
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...
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..
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...
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...
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