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Improving mental health outcomes for children and young people

01 June 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article reviews the government’s strategy for improving mental health in England, No Health without Mental Health, which promotes a ‘life course’ approach to...

No substitute for nurses

21 November 2006

Nursing Standard

Feature

Field research in care homes has revealed for the first time the significant contribution that registered nurses make to patient care.

Patient-reported outcome measures: implications for nursing

05 January 2011

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Programme, which was implemented by the NHS in 2009, gives prominence to patients’ views about their health....

Improving health outcomes for people with learning disabilities

12 October 2011

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Modern healthcare policy is driven by an emphasis on the philosophy of inclusion, yet in the past decade there has been increasing recognition that people with...

MEND programmes: community solutions to a national problem

09 July 2009

Primary Health Care

General

Preliminary data suggest that the prevalence of childhood obesity may be plateauing. The MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition…Do it!) programme, which works with local...

Working together to reduce health inequalities in the Marmot City of Coventry

27 February 2017

Primary Health Care

Evidence & practice

In 2013, organisations across the city of Coventry committed to work together to reduce differences in health outcomes between the most affluent and most deprived...

Improving maternal and neonatal health in Malawi through knowledge and education

26 June 2015

Primary Health Care

Art & Science

There is a chronic shortage of healthcare workers in Malawi, a country that has one of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the world. Voluntary...