Healthier weight promotion for children: consistent messages - Loretta...
We know children who stay a healthy weight and lead a healthy lifestyle tend to be fitter, healthier, have better attendance in school and be more self-confident. Health and care professionals are in a...
View ArticleUsing Community Assets to Support Breastfeeding By Wendy Nicholson
The benefits of breastfeeding are clear. As well as health benefits to mother and baby, increased breastfeeding rates contribute to reducing health inequalities through improved outcomes. Despite the...
View ArticleHaving fun and keeping fit: the #WeActiveChallenge by Viv Bennett
The schools are out, so is the sun, and August is upon us again. That means it's time for the #WeActiveChallenge! All across the country health and care professionals are upping their activity and...
View ArticleFrom Couch to 5k powered by social media - Linda Hindle
At the end of #weactivechallenge 2018 I wanted to put pen to paper to thank the @wecommunities team for running another successful campaign and to share my experiences from this year's challenge. This...
View ArticleThe Ripple Effect by Teresa Chinn MBE
When I first started tweeting and blogging as a nurse someone likened my journey to the throwing starfish story, I am not sure if you know it? It goes something like this: One day a man was walking...
View ArticleProtecting People from Infections - World Antibiotics Awareness Week 2018 by...
All Our Health - Protecting People from Infections This week, we are celebrating World Antibiotic Awareness Week (#WAAW) and the theme for this year is ‘Change can’t wait: our time with...
View ArticleWE Learn 'All Our Health' 2019: Are you one of our next trailblazer...
We Learn All Our Health 2019: are you one of our next trailblazer organisations? It may only just be November but we wanted to take five minutes to talk about the New Year – 2019 – as there are some...
View ArticleWeLearn #AllOurHealth 2019 – Registration is NOW open! By Teresa Chinn MBE...
WeLearn #AllOurHealth 2019 – Registration is open! All Our Health is a framework of evidence to guide health care professionals in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing, a...
View ArticleCountdown to WeLearn #AllOurHealth 2019 – register before it’s too late! By...
The countdown has begun.....have you signed up yet? There’s less than a week to sign up to the All Our Health WeLearn which starts on 4 February. This is a fantastic opportunity for all health and...
View ArticleSafer Sleep Week 2019 Supporting safer Sleeping – starting the conversation...
It’s the Lullaby Trust’s annual national awareness-raising campaign which is entitled Safer Sleep Week. Sleeping is second nature to babies, they spend a large proportion of their day sleeping and...
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