Health visitor Patricia Ash, of Wally Foster Community Centre, City and Hackney Teaching PCT, was recognised for setting up evening sessions for single parents unable to access in-hours services.

The citation added: ‘She has also been instrumental in setting up the Honey Pot charity which provides short holidays for children from the Kingsmead Estate.

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By the way it’s currently designed and implemented, it certainly seems that way.

Medicare seems intent on burying the P4P concept. Bob Doherty notes that “successful quality improvement programs provide regular feedback to clinicians on how they are doing. Rewards for reporting should be greater than the costs and hassles of reporting. The rewards should be predictable (if I do x, I will receive y). And the timing of providing the rewards Read more »

The union is urging the DoH to double the workforce by immediately recruiting an extra 2,000 qualified school nurses.

The advice follows the data from the child measurement programme showing that one in five children aged 10-11 are obese.

There are more than 3,300 secondary schools in England, and the DoH has pledged to have a school nurse to cover each of these and their surrounding clusters of primary schools by 2010.
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