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How can public health nurses help deliver the Healthy Child Programme this winter?

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This blog considers the challenges to children’s health this winter, and the ways in which health visitors and school nurses as clinicians and leaders of local services can advise and support families and young people to protect their health as part of the Healthy Child Programme.

Continuing the mandation of the universal 5 health visiting checks

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This post was published when Public Health England had responsibility for health visiting services. For the most recent information please visit the NHS website. What happens in pregnancy and early childhood impacts on a child’s physical and emotional health all the way into …