Community Practitioner

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Articles in Sept, 2008 issue of Community Practitioner

• Labour Party Conference fringe meeting
• New NMC president
• Lord Victor on the CAF
• Nursing careers
• Stand up and be counted: in an open letter, Unite urges members to carry on the fight for fair pay
  by Karen Reay
• Facing the end: the provision of end-of-life care: two end-of-life strategies promise to provide adults and children with higher quality and greater choice of care toward the end of their lives, but concerns remain over funding and staffing levels
  by Kin Ly
• Video Interaction Guidance: a practitioner's perspective
  by Jenny Brooks
• The potential contribution of realistic evaluation to small-scale community interventions
  by Monique Lhussier
• Making sense of Darzi: everyone's talking about the Darzi Review, but what is it, what does it suggest and what are its implications for community practitioners?
  by Cheryll Adams
• 'Junk food' at age three years may impact on school attainment
  by June Thompson
• Information about ADHD on UK websites is too basic and lacks important details
  by June Thompson
• Cutting the frenulum in babies with tongue-tie can help breastfeeding
  by June Thompson
• Half an hour of daily exercise is insufficient for sustained weight loss
  by June Thompson
• Don't shoot the messenger: a series of cases of malpractice in the NHS has been brought to light, but what should staff do if they have witnessed malpractice in the workplace? The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 was implemented to enable staff to repo
  by Barrie Brown
• A comparative study of self-perceived public health competencies: practice teachers and qualifying SCPHNs
  by Brenda Poulton
• Impact factor: the Research Forum on the development of its role within Unite/CPHVA and the range of issues in which it is now involved
• Hib disease falls after campaign
  by June Thompson
• Pregnancy alone not associated with increased risk of mental disorders
  by June Thompson
• Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years
  by June Thompson
• 'Free' pre-school education
• Developmental review change
  by Claire D'Arcy
• A seat at the front: available places on the Health Visitor Forum and Equalities Committee offer exciting opportunities for the vital involvement of members
  by Jackie Wrench
• No one written off?
• Parents to receive NCMP reports: parents will receive reports informing them of their child's height and weight, but concerns remain about whether this will help tackle childhood obesity
• Practice nurse toolkit
• MMR vaccine catch-up campaign
• NICE smoking prevention
• Julie Crawford Award
• QNI bursary
• Testicular cancer DVD pack
• Mileage review: lease cars
• End Child Poverty
• Reducing cot deaths
• Free PCHR inserts from Bookstart
• NICE Shared Learning Award
• 2 million [pounds sterling] to help breastfeed
• One-stop shop for mums-to-be
• The Business of being born
• GPs support health visitors
• Welsh internal market abolished
• Three new doctorates
• More Queen's birthday honors …
• LAR and Lay Officer of the Year awards
• Events so far …
• A goodbye from a former NPC member
  by Kate Beswick
• Standing up for the NMC
  by Kathy George
• Gypsy and Traveller health
  by George Hamill
• Diary
• Working with Roma families
  by Judith Leaver