World Immunisation Week

By Registered Health Visitor – Julia Headland April 2023 marks the World Immunisation Week which has been initiated with the aim of highlighting the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine preventable diseases (World Health Organisation (WHO)2023). I...

World Oral Health Day

By Registered Health Visitor – Julia Headland Monday 20th March 2023 is World Oral Health Day 2023, and this marks the final year of a three year campaign set up in 2021 themed “Be Proud of Your Mouth”. The campaign was set up by the World Dental Federation whose...

Your Child’s Diet

Last year a marketing campaign ”Better Health” was launched by the Department of Health and Social Care to help prevent obesity and provide parents with support to improve their child’s dietary choices. The multimillion-pound campaign will highlight the serious health...

Group A Streptococcus

By Registered Health Visitor – Julia Headland I thought I would do this blog about Group A Streptococcus (Strep A) as there has been a lot of media coverage about it recently due to an increase of cases and, tragically, deaths of children under the age of eighteen,...

Stress

By Registered Health Visitor – Julia Headland The 2nd of November marked National Stress Awareness Day so I thought I would do a blog exploring stress and touching upon the correlation between parental stress and infant and child mental health as it is an area that...