Community Practitioner

Community Practitioner, the monthly journal of the CPHVA, is the UK's leading professional journal for health visitors, school nurses and community practitioners. It provides topical news, in-depth news features, policy analysis, practice updates, and professional and clinical papers. Professional papers in the journal include an abstract and key words which can be used to search on the Community Practioner website.

Skill Mix in Health Visiting and Community Nursing Teams; Principles into Practice

At a time when spending in the NHS I under scrutiny it is very important that all decisions are based on the best evidence and knowledge of what works. Skill mix is a very under researched area in the community but Maggie Fisher has successfully brought together the available research and placed it in a professional and policy context.

Community Nursery Nurse Handbook

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Record Keeping and Documentation

Record-keeping and documentation: principles into practice by Rita Newland. Easy-to-use, practical information to help practitioners to establish and maintain effective and efficient record-keeping and documentation practice.

Tackling Child Obesity With Henry

An approach to help practitioners engage successfully with parents and carers, and encourage them to give thier babies and toddlers an optimal start to life.

Getting It Right: Supporting the health of refugees and people seeking asylum

How and why people come to the UK in search of sanctuary, what happens to them when they arrive, and the likely health impacts of their unique and varied experiences.

How Are You Feeling? Poster

Designed to accompany "How Are You?" series of booklets, these A3 posters can be displayed in clinics and surgeries. They are designed to help mothers recognise the symptoms of depression, so they can seek help.

How are you feeling? Resource and Training Pack

This resource and training pack is designed to support those delivering training in implementing the CPHVA 'How are you feeling?' booklets into practice. The pack has been developed with the support of several health care organisations and health visitors who have piloted it on our behalf. The pack is a practical tool and hence does not contain any in-depth discussion of cultural issues, however a reading list is supplied.

How Are You Feeling? Booklets

This popular range of tools was developed by Unite/CPHVA to support the assessment of the mental, and some social and physical health needs for new mothers. Each of the booklets, leaflets and posters are available in six languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Somali, Urdu and English (for use with English and non-English speaking mothers).

How Are You Feeling? Leaflets

Designed to accompany "How Are You Feeling?" series of booklets, these leaflets can be handed out to mothers or made available in clinics and surgeries. They are designed (in the mothers own language) to help mothers recognise the symptoms of depression, so they can seek help.