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Articles in Sept, 2009 issue of Community Practitioner

• More needed, and now: we need more community practitioners with professional autonomy and in well resourced, high-quality services, and we need them now
  by Lord Victor Adebowale
• Public sector pension 'myths exposed'
• Child maltreatment: NICE guidance
• LAR and lay officer of the year awards
• Parents' Week 2009
• NHS Baby LifeCheck
• Children and reality TV: DCSF review
• Shortages highlighted to nursing commission
• Antenatal and parentcraft classes
• Medical technologies panel
• Security training for lone workers
• Insufficient bottle-feeding information
• A thousand signatures and counting: unite is delivering a protest signed by over a thousand members to the Department of Health against increasing NHS privatisation and fragmentation
• Supportive care for children and young people during cancer treatment
  by Maggie Breen; Lucy Coombes; Charlotte Bradbourne
• Ready for swine flu: with a possible peak in influenza A/H1N1v cases imminent, awareness of response plans and sources of future information is vital
  by Ros Godson; Viv Cleary
• DDH: causes and examination: embryology, risk factors and identification of developmental dysplasia of the hip
  by Annie Hurley
• Information needs of formula-feeding mothers
• GP difficulty identifying depression
• Depression and older-age obesity
• Poor maternal sleep linked to PPD
• Sleep problems in children and adolescents
  by Wendy Deshpande
• Diary
• Maternal mental health
• Healthy weight lead
• Autism spectrum
• Health visitor forum
• Speaking up about bad practice
• Unite: an alternative to NHS cuts: unite has responded to a review of future NHS funding by highlighting a need to invest resources into the provision of health care rather than further marketisation
• Concerns over swine flu cover
• Welsh conference
• Ten Alps funding free conference places
• Last chance for change: time is running out to defuse the worsening crisis in health visiting services
  by Kin Ly
• Families in transit: working with families living in temporary motel accommodation
  by Julie Haynes; Teresa Parsons
• Suspecting child maltreatment: new NICE guidance on when to suspect child maltreatment
  by Jane V. Appleton; Danya Glaser
• Teenage pregnancies not reduced by government-backed programme
• The carrot or the stick?
  by Pam Quinn