DHSC:GAPH: Healthy Child Programme: 5-19 Public Health Nursing

ealth and development and poor nutrition have all been identified as barriers to learning and increases the risk of poor outcomes The government has set out it’s ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever while shifting to community health services that are focussed on prevention.

To achieve this, the school nursing service, which leads the delivery of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme, needs to be reimagined in such a way that it aligns with neighbourhood health teams. This alignment will, in turn, strengthen the key