Melanie Hayward

Working with our places will help us to spread the benefits of higher education more widely Jonathan Batty argues that widening participation will only deliver real change when it is co-developed with partners in places

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

Will The 10 Year Health Plan Really Tackle The Nation’s Health Crisis? | The King's Fund 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?

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

Comment: Strengthening the Academic Voice in School Nursing: Celebrating NASNA and SAPHNA partnership Melanie Hayward Associate Professor and Lead for Quality Assurance and Enhancement (IHSC) and Chair of National Association of School Nurse Academics (NASNA) explores the NASNA and SAPHNA partnership ...

@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

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What Is Prevention In Health? | The King's Fund Different people mean different things by prevention. Here, we set out some of the different ways it is understood.

What Is Prevention In Health? | The King's Fund
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Reducing Parental Conflict Challenge Fund: final learning report March 2025 Final analysis of the eight projects set up to build on the evidence and learning from the first Challenge Fund delivered in 2019 to 2020.

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

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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!
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'What I wish I had known about having difficult conversations with parents' - Community Care A social worker with over 20 years’ experience reflects on a difficult conversation early in her career and what she would have done differently

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

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Campaigners hail free school meals expansion as 'significant step' in tackling child poverty - CYP Now Child poverty campaigners have welcomed the government’s decision to extend eligibility for free school meals to half a million more children next year.

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

The library’s role in reducing the attainment gap Read about strategies aimed at closing attainment gaps, such as peer mentoring, inclusive resources and academic skills training to support students

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

Interview: England CNO talks NHS reforms and nursing | Nursing Times Read an exclusive interview with England chief nursing officer Duncan Burton about NHS reforms and other issues facing the profession.

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 👇

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Great work team! @bnuni.bsky.social

Universities are boxed in: Is there a way out? - HEPI UK higher education institutions are increasingly boxed in on six sides: In this pacey and timely paper, Professors Diana Beech and André Spicer take a look at the situation and propose some different...

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'
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#CYP Digital safety isn’t optional
#PublicHealth @carolinevoogd.bsky.social

Michael Marmot

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
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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

Research Notes - Spring 2025 Edition This edition of Research Notes marks six years since the publication’s launch in 2019, reaffirming BNU’s core research values of sustainability, inclusivity, and equality. Reflecting on the growth acr...

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:
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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 🥳

Student Nursing Times Awards 2025 winners revealed | Nursing Times Find out who won what at the 2025 Student Nursing Times Awards, which celebrate excellence in nursing and midwifery 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

Persistent Hyperglycemia and Insulin Resistance With the Risk of Worsening Cardiac Damage in Adolescents: A 7-Year Longitudinal Study of the ALSPAC Birth Cohort - PubMed Persistent adolescent hyperglycemia and worsening IR were associated with the risk of worsening structural and functional cardiac damage, and these were largely explained by increased fat mass.

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

It's students that suffer when those supposed to protect them fail 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 England's...

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

Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hub

Fab new website for the Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hub based at @bnuni.bsky.social Aylesbury Campus

#PublicHealth #SocialPrescribing

buckscommunityhub.com

Families First Partnership programme Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.

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

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The First 1000 Days: a renewed focus - IHV Today, The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry on the first 1000 days of life, the period from a child’s conception to age two - widely recognised as a critical period for deve...

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👇
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Raising the roar: The power of political advocacy in school nursing | Journal of Family and Child Health School nurses must be politically active to address the growing needs of children and young people, and nurse academics need to lead by example by fostering policy discussion and a culture of advocacy. Melanie Hayward, Associate Professor of Education (Health and Social Care) at Buckinghamshire New University and chair of the National Association of School Nurse Academics (NASNA), Julie Critcher, Deputy Professional Officer – School and Public Health Nurses Association (SAPHNA) and NASNA member, and Erica Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, Programme Lead SCPHN-School Nursing at the University of Derby and NASNA member explain

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
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Paying the price of child poverty 4.3 million children are now paying the price of poverty in the UK. Without sustained policy action, a further 400,000 children will be pulled into poverty by the end of the decade.

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

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