In this series by senior health visitors, Shirley Adebayo, a senior health visitor at North Middlesex University Hospital, London, talks about stages of speech and language development following a...
Primary schools should do more to identify and support children at risk of developing mental health problems, says a leading mental health charity. A report by the Mental Health Foundation, called I...
A series of events are planned across the country during the UK’s first national Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.
A landmark report into the state of child health in the UK reveals ‘stark inequalities’, rising death rates, obesity and ill-health.
Resources to support the mental health of new fathers; parents who had a baby during the pandemic, and mothers from British South Asian communities, have been launched by the Institute of Health...
As the squeeze on income tightens, Meredith Jones Russell looks at the health impacts
Nursery head teachers have prompted the leader of education at Edinburgh council to call for routine health visitor visits to be resumed to families with children older than six weeks.
In the first of a new series, Public Health England explains its drive to cut sugar consumption
<P>There are increasing opportunities for nursery nurses to use their skills and work with community health teams. Judith Napier reports</P>
Health visiting needs to be recognised in law as a profession to avoid more tragedies like the case of Baby P, says the health visitors' union Unite.