FW: Health Visiting Monthly - February 2012

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health visiting. Congratulations to Janette for being the hero of the month.

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Subject: FW: Health Visiting

Monthly - February 2012

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Subject: Health Visiting Monthly -

February 2012

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Health

Visiting Monthly

February 2012,

Issue 1

In

February 2011, the Department of Health published the Health Visitor

Implementation Plan 2011-15 – A Call to Action. This

described the Government's commitment to improve services and health

outcomes in the early years for children, families and their communities,

through expanding and strengthening health visiting services, with an

extra 4,200 health visitors in post by April 2015.

Health

Visiting Monthly supports the implementation of this commitment by

sharing information on progress and good practice across the North West.

This Months Health Visiting Hero

Janette

Hopkins, Consultant Nurse in

Public Health in Blackpool is our

first Health Visiting Hero. Janette has a wealth of knowledge,

skill and experience that she is bringing to bear at both local,

regional and national level.

Click here for

a resume of Janette's health visiting journey to date.

I Commit

Your opportunity to make a public commitment

supporting 'Early Years are vital, Health Visitors make them

count'.

Watch this space for details of how to add your

commitment.

Look What We're Doing

The North West Health Visiting (HV) and Family Nurse

Partnership (FNP) programme has been up and running from February

2011. Over this period the Strategic Health Authority

(SHA), working with and through the Primary Care Trust (PCT)

Clusters and the Delivering the Commitment Partnership Board, has:

Revised and updated targets and

trajectories

Clarified the definition of HV for

inclusion in the count and consistency checking across the SHA

Identified education commissioning and

placement targets for 2012/13

Reviewed models of placement support for HV

trainees

Started working with colleagues in the

North East and Yorkshire and Humber

as part of the North of England SHA Cluster

Established an SHA-wide HV network

Published a service specification for HV

services

Developed professional mobilisation and

recruitment promotional material

Revised the SHA web site HV pages

Published Partnership Board papers on the

SHA web site HV pages

What Our Families Say

Families in the Foundation Years: Preparing for parenthood

Watch

these clips to hear experiences of parenting children in their

earliest years

Support and Sustenance

Key links for all:

Getting

the most from your appraisal

Leaders:

NW

Leadership Academy Bouncebackability Tool

Health Visitors:

CPHVA

Frequently Asked Questions

Healthy

Child Programme e-learning for Health Visitors

Direct from

Department of Health (DH) / Department for Education (DfE)

Click on the links below for:

Department

of Health, Health Visiting webpage

Department

for Education, Children and Young People webpage

Key information:

A

Call to Action - One Year On: Health Visitor Implementation

Progress Report

This report captures progress on the

commitments within 'A Call to Action' and describes planned,

next-stage activities.

Helping

health visitors and school nurses prepare for the future

This summarises two accelerated learning

events attended by more than 200 health visitors and school

nurses, entitled 'Maximising the health visiting and school

nursing contribution', which were held in Coventry.

Educating

health visitors for a transformed service

New guidance for education commissioners,

higher education institutions and lecturers sets out the

approach on aligning education with regard to provision of a

transformed health visiting service. Also, it sets out a more

detailed rationale and suggestions for aligning the 'new

service vision' and meeting family expectations.

Health

Visitor – Return to Practice Framework

The focus of this framework is on return to

practice (RtP) and has been produced to provide information

for those considering a return to the health visitor service,

and for consideration by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

delivering RtP programmes.

Our Friends in

the North

NHS North East, NHS North West and NHS Yorkshire and the

Humber - the three strategic health authorities in the North of

England - now work together under a single management framework as

NHS North of England.

The links below provide access to respective Health Visiting

Programmes:

North

East

Yorkshire and

the Humber

Data Depot

The Electronic Workforce Information Network (e-WIN) has

information on your local health visiting service.

To register and access this, click here.

Health Visiting Who's Who

First

Director of Nursing for Public Health

Professor Viv has been appointed as Director of

Nursing in the Department of Health and the Government's Principal

Advisor on Public Health Nursing.

Click here

for more information.

Health Visiting Week

5 to 9 March 2012

Click here

for more information.

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Blackpool

Health Visitors celebrated the launch of a 'new look' health visiting

service. Click here

for more information.

Do

you have something to share regarding developments in your

area? If so, please contact the Health Visiting Team at NHS

North West (contact details listed below).

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