Neglecting our own health and wellbeing serves no-one! For anyone reading this who is already practicing self-care on a regular basis, well done; please encourage your colleagues of the benefits. This post may not offer any new ideas, but it may help you remember to keep up the good work. For anyone not practicing self-care…
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Lifelong Learning and a Passion for People
Lauren Kennedy is Lead Nurse for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities with NHS 24. In this blog, she shares her ambition to highlight and combat health inequalities through continued learning, her positive professional attitude, and a desire to share knowledge. Other people’s stories have always intrigued me. Coupled with my natural compassion I often found…
The Children’s Rights Revolution
Dr Elaine Allan, Lecturer Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (FQNIS) previously shared her work related to a collaborative Children’s Rights Based Approach – The Imagineers Research Project. Now she invites YOU to take part in The Children’s Rights Revolution in her blog discussing The Year of Childhood. Results demonstrated that, in a supported environment, children and…
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
FASD is a lifelong condition. Despite the name of this neurodevelopmental condition beginning with the word ‘Fetal’, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders never disappear. Children and young people cannot ‘grow out of it’.
Climate Change and Infant Feeding
Dr Elizabeth Smith is the Breastfeeding Advocacy Lead for Scotland and Queen’s Nurse from the 2018 cohort. In her latest blog, she talks us through her reasons for getting involved in the creation of Health Care Without Harm’s climate-smart infant feeding resources. I sit and write this a day after the hottest day ever experienced…
Voices from the Margin: Part 2
HPBL Consultant, Michele Stranger Hunter explores the views of the women participating in these one-to-one Listening Sessions and her own reflections upon their meaning. The Listening Sessions were conducted as individual interviews with patients registered at Edinburgh’s Access Place.
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
This is the second blog of six where Professor Moira Plant shares highlights from her report to be published this summer. Who is most likely to drink during pregnancy and what gets in the way of discussions about it? This second blog in the series (see the first blog here) shares highlights from the…
Voices from the Margin: Part 1
Edinburgh Access HPBL Listening Session, Part 1 Inger McGowan QN and Michele Stranger Hunter The views and advice of marginalised, traumatised women about their lived experience of reproductive health and pregnancy are too rarely solicited, heard or heeded. One mission of QNIS’ Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives programme is to redress that inequity. The overall results…
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy and FASD
Since training as a nurse in Edinburgh, I have been fascinated by the complex relationships between women and alcohol. This interest led me to become an alcohol specialist nurse here decades ago. In fact, I ended up considering the connections between drinking and healthcare throughout my career. My late husband and I both eventually became Professors of Alcohol Studies.
General Practice and Reproductive Health:
Primary care’s potential for pre-pregnancy counselling, assessments and services is a golden opportunity to prevent harm and promote health. It arose from their understanding that people of reproductive age are rarely getting the information and assistance they need from other health professionals. They understand that primary care providers are usually best placed within Scotland’s healthcare system to play this new role.
