Welcome to our blogs page where we share stories relating to health inequalities, community projects, sustainability, leadership and community nursing.
Considering Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Helen Gilpin is a Queen’s Nurse and Nurse Specialist for Looked After and Accommodated Children and Young People in NHS…
Let us ditch the myth that self-care is self-indulgent
Neglecting our own health and wellbeing serves no-one! For anyone reading this who is already practicing self-care on a regular…
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…
Pre-Pregnancy Health within Primary Care
Our society thinks and acts as if avoiding pregnancy or being pregnant are the only options. What gets overlooked are…
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
In this sixth and final blog in the series presenting key elements from Professor Moira Plant’s forthcoming report we hear…
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
Stigma doesn’t just affect the judgement of people doing the stigmatising. It mainly affects the people who are, or think…
Wait a minute. That’s not on me!
Michele Stranger Hunter’s latest blog looks at the need to go beyond individual change to changing ‘the system’.
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
While the last blog looked at the physical problems experienced by people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, this blog explores…
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…
Women, Alcohol, Pregnancy & FASD
FASD is a lifelong condition. Despite the name of this neurodevelopmental condition beginning with the word ‘Fetal’, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum…
