Last week on Wonkhe: Jonathan Batty argues that widening participation will only deliver real change when it is co-developed with partners in places

Health inequalities are widening. Life expectancy is falling. Has the government's 10 Year Health Plan gone far enough when it comes to preventing ill health? 🎧 New podcast episode with @hellomccracken.bsky.social, @sarah-arnold.bsky.social and Danielle Jefferies out now: buff.ly/EzTXdgu

@melhayward.bsky.social Lead for Quality Assurance & Enhancement & Chair of National Association of School Nurse Academics (NASNA) celebrates the strategic affiliation between the School & Public Health Nurses Association & NASNA www.bucks.ac.uk/news/comment...

What Is Prevention In Health? | The King's Fund www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

New report #ReducingParentalConflict Challenge Fund (2023–24) shows how digital tools + tailored support can help families navigate conflict Let’s build on what works 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Evidence matters 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Families matter www.gov.uk/government/p...

Calling #NurseAcademics, new video resources for Successful Studying for Nursing Students are now live! Study skills, critical thinking & more - perfect for supporting your learners Access: evolve.elsevier.com → Create/login → Request access to the book → View resources

Attended the @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social All in for Attendance conference Powerful insights on tackling chronic absenteeism through public health, trauma-informed care & #schoolnursing School nurses are essential to student wellbeing. Lets act on the data #PublicHealth #ChronicAbsence

📢 Calling UK #SCPHN #SchoolNurse academics! Join the National Association of School Nurse Academics #NASNA & become part of a vibrant community dedicated to advancing School Nurse Education 🌟 Click the link to sign up - it's free! forms.office.com/e/yEwNgb76KY

In #CYP services, tough talks with parents are inevitable Sophie Baker offers guidance in #CommunityCare on handling these with empathy and clarity Essential reading for all #CYP health and social care practitioners #CYPPractice #ChildProtection www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/06/05/w...

CYP Now - Campaigners hail free school meals expansion as 'significant step' in tackling child poverty www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

Peer mentoring, inclusive resources and academic skills training can reduce the attainment gap, explain staff at Nottingham Trent University. Learn how: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/libra... #AcademicSky #EduSky

Amid the abolition of NHS England and major workforce reforms, chief nursing officer for England Duncan Burton shares his vision for nursing’s role in a transformed health service. Read the exclusive interview with Nursing Times below 👇 www.nursingtimes.net/leadership/i...

UK HEIs are increasingly boxed in on six sides: 1 increasing regulation 2 rising costs 3 falling income for each domestic student 4 uncertain future demand from international students 5 increasing availability of alternative routes 6 shrinking population www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/05/u...

Fabulous day yesterday @BNU . SCPHN and DN SPQ students held a poster event demonstrating all their innovative service improvement designs @theqicn.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @rcndcnforum.bsky.social @melhayward.bsky.social

Incredibly proud that Buckinghamshire New University has been named University of the Year for South East England. Voted for by students, awards don’t get more meaningful. www.whatuni.com/student-awar...

New @ma-healthcare.bsky.social #JFCH #NASNA column is out Proud to co-author 'Supporting Digital Resilience: Embedding ‘Maddie is Online’ in SCPHN School Nurse Education' www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.... #CYP Digital safety isn’t optional #PublicHealth @carolinevoogd.bsky.social

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference. Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010 www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Come along to our Leadership Service Improvement Poster event @ Buckinghamshire New University today 11-13. Fabulous service improvement by SPQDN and SCPHN students 😊@theqicn.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @rcndcnforum.bsky.social

Just published in @bnuni.bsky.social Research Notes Spring 2025! Reflection of my presentation at the #SAPHNA 2024 Conference, exploring the evolving role of school nurses in safeguarding & public health Read more on upstream care, advocacy & investment here: issuu.com/bucks_new_un... pages 12-13

Huge congratulations 🎉 to @bnuni.bsky.social practice learning partner London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust for winning Education Provider of the Year (post-registration) student nursing times award #SNTA for redefining post-registration nurse education 🥳

The winners of the 2025 Student Nursing Times Awards have been announced. Find out who won what here: www.nursingtimes.net/education-an... #SNTA

Teenagers with normal blood sugar are showing early signs of heart damage A new study links this to poor diet, obesity and inactivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40294628/ ⚠️ Cardiometabolic risk is rising before prediabetes is diagnosed #CYPHealth #PublicHealth

Delighted to share that I’ve been appointed field External Examiner for CYP Nursing @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social ! A CYP academic team that champions public health 🌱, meaningful simulation 🩺, and partnership with CYP 🤝 — values close to my heart ✨ #CYPnursing #ExternalExaminer #CivicImpact

This week on Wonkhe: England's universities regulator has found measures designed to protect students to be outdated, insufficient and ineffective in practice. Jim Dickinson wonders if it will do anything about it

Fab new website for the Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hub based at @bnuni.bsky.social Aylesbury Campus #PublicHealth #SocialPrescribing buckscommunityhub.com

Exploring the Families First Partnership Programme guide, which emphasises multi-agency collaboration for #childprotection & #familysupport While promising, its success depends on adequate funding & streamlined processes Your thoughts? #Safeguarding #PublicHealth www.gov.uk/government/p...

The First 1000 Days Inquiry launched‼️to investigate progress on outcomes for👶🏿👶🏼👶🏾 Read our response, “piecemeal policies have created worse child health outcomes,a lack of support & vast inexcusable inequalities.We cannot tinker at the edges any longer👇 ihv.org.uk/news-and-vie...

Sharing articles from Vol 1 Issue 4 - Journal of Family & Child Health @ma-healthcare.bsky.social #NASNA column coauthored by me, Julie Critcher and Erica Lloyd Raising the roar: The power of political advocacy in school nursing magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....

I'm supporting @actionforchildren.bsky.social call to increase family welfare benefits in the child poverty strategy Our children's future depends on comprehensive support, not just employment measures #ChildPoverty #PublicHealth #Safeguarding www.actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and...

Sharing articles from Vol 1 Issue 4 - Journal of Family & Child Health @ma-healthcare.bsky.social this week 3rd one - Evaluating the effectiveness of a programme on parental feeding styles as part of a #childhoodobesity intervention www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sharing articles from Vol 1 Issue 4 - Journal of Family & Child Health @ma-healthcare.bsky.social 2nd one - #Poverty affects access to early childhood services magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12… @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social

🚨 Just published! 🚨 My latest article in the @ma-healthcare.bsky.social BJN explores the crisis of corridor care & its impact on nursing & patient safety 👩‍⚕️ We all have a role in advocating for better conditions and support #Nursing #PatientSafety www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sharing articles from Vol 1 Issue 4 - Journal of Family & Child Health @ma-healthcare.bsky.social this week 1st one - Podcasts as a medium to support professional development for school nurses magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.... #SchoolNurseinEverySchool @carolinevoogd.bsky.social

📢 Calling UK #SCPHN #SchoolNurse academics Join the National Association of School Nurse Academics #NASNA & be a part of a vibrant community dedicated to advancing School Nurse Education 🌟Click the link to sign up - it's free! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Substantial work needed to improve family group conference data National data collection launched to address gaps revealed by study, ahead of implementation of duty on councils to offer FGC-style services to families facing care proceedings www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/03/07/s...

Good news! Numbers starting #socialwork #apprenticeships continue to grow Almost 1,400 started courses in 2023-24, almost double that in 2021-22, with more qualifying each year, according to Department for Education figures www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/03/06/n...

Deepfake #sexualabuse disproportionately targets women & is a legal grey area Sign this petition for stronger laws, accountability for tech platforms & better support for victims #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction Sign the Petition! chng.it/LJWcs6FXgP via @ukchange.bsky.social

🌟 The latest insights from the Office for Students on fostering excellence in higher education 🌟 www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-an...

Children and young people’s services formula review Report on research to develop a new multi-level model of relative need for children and young people’s services in local authorities, completed in January 2020 www.gov.uk/government/p...

It is fantastic to see four @bnuni.bsky.social #nursing and #nursingassociate staff and learners as well as valued practice learning and employer partners on the Student @nursingtimes.bsky.social Times #SNTA25 shortlist! @profdamienpage.bsky.social studentawards.nursingtimes.net/2025/en/page...

Week 6️⃣of #NHS1000miles is 20 YTD = 94 miles 906 miles to go! 🚶‍♀️

We're standing in solidarity with nurses, students and lecturers protesting outside Cardiff Uni today and highlighting critical concerns about the proposal to close its School of Nursing. We're calling for urgent action to protect nursing and ensure a sustainable future for the profession in Wales.

Nursing Times Awards 2024: Public Health Nursing winner and shortlist Find out more about the winner and shortlisted entries in the Public Health Nursing category at the 2024 Nursing Times Awards. #nursing #nurses #publichealth #NTAwards #nurse #innovation #nhs www.nursingtimes.net/public-healt...

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” A few kind words can make all the difference - kindness matters. #kindness 🧡🧡🧡 (Picture by JVDesigns UK)

Save Cardiff University School of Nursing - Sign the Petition! chng.it/vRWVkC5kWh via @ukchange.bsky.social #NurseSky #NurseAcademicsUK

Week 5️⃣ of #NHS1000miles is 17.8 YTD = 74 miles 926 miles to go! 🚶‍♀️

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has increased the proportion of Global Majority ethnic members of its fitness-to-practise panels, following criticisms of a lack of diversity nursingtimes.net/professional....

Save Cardiff University School of Nursing - Sign the Petition! chng.it/vRWVkC5kWh via @ukchange.bsky.social #NurseSky #NurseAcademicsUK

Excited about @thersaorg.bsky.social research on social capital highlighting importance of connections for communities www.thersa.org/design-for-l... Links to my research on student nurse social media use which shows how digital connections can enhance learning & support doi.org/10.5430/jnep...

Evening all! Bit late for the Monday check-in today😊 This week @BNUInstitute includes but is not limited to: 🔹 #IHSC Board 🔹 #FTP work 🔹 #QA Framework Development 🔹 #NASNA meeting What about you #NurseAcademicsUK?