Caring for babies and young children - what can older children do?

Dear All

I'm delighted to tell you that we have successfully raised funding for the completion of the Children for Health ten poster series.

On completion we will have many more posters than ten as we have other posters linked to projects on Diabetes and Eye Health, Oral Health and Life Skills.

All our posters feature 10 messages for young adolescents to learn and share (on the front) and lots of ideas on how to use the posters and additional activities to get children mobilised on the back. If you haven't seen our posters PLEASE take a look here. They are being used in so many ways!

www.childrenforhealth.org/resources

...and any feedback is always welcome.
Please also share with your networks.

I am looking for specialists in early years to help us revise our existing set of 10 messages on the topic of 'Caring for Babies and Young Children' for the new poster. It is a voluntary role. The process lasts about 3 months as we involve practitioners too and work with schools to get children reviewing the messages. It's usually about 3 rounds of review and then an art work review. I'd be very pleased to hear from those who feel they have the time and expertise to help.

Meanwhile take a look at our posters. We have three new ones!

WASH: https://www.childrenforhealth.org/WASHposter

Coughs and Pneumonia: https://www.childrenforhealth.org/CoughsPoster

Intestinal Worms: https://www.childrenforhealth.org/WormsPoster

HIFA profile: Clare Hanbury is director of Children for Health. She qualified as a teacher in the UK and then worked in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. After an MA in Education in Developing Countries and for many years, Clare worked for The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London's Institute of Education where, alongside Hugh Hawes and Professor David Morley she worked to help embed the Child-to-Child ideas of children's participation in health – into government and non-government cchild health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare has worked with these ideas alongside vulnerable groups of children such as refugees and street children. Since her MSc in International Maternal and Child Health, Clare focused on helping government and non-government programmes to design and deliver child-centered health and education programmes where children are active participants. Clare has worked in many countries in East and Southern Africa and in Pakistan, Cambodia and the Yemen. In July 2013, Clare founded the NGO, Children for Health and develops health education materials and and works on health education programmes alongside partners all over the world.

https://www.hifa.org/support/members/clare clare AT childrenforhealth.org

Source link: 

https://hifaforums.org/_/XsqxTWgj

Ambulances, Bikes, Cars and Dennis

There are many rites of passage. Some are universal, others culture specific, or a facet of religious identity. Perhaps there are rites of passage that change over time, or are as yet unclear. When should a young person have their own mobile phone, especially when that phone is 'smart'? Perhaps that is a step too far, to see a phone as a rite of passage? Or, perhaps it signifies an erosion of the human experience of growing-up. 

Mastering a bicycle is, if not a rite of passage, an experience I remember so well. An experience revisited and enjoyed even more as an adult with my own children. It really is something when the hand-lets-go, a signifier of more transitions to follow. 

I learned to ride on two-wheels, in the cobbled backs that ran behind and between the rows of terraced houses. When I was aged 9-10, out on my bike I skidded and came off, trying to stop for a car. It was my fault, the driver was pretty upset too and carried me home. An X-Ray revealed I had hairline fractured of my tibia. I can remember being up so late 'The Untouchables' were on B&W TV. Back then a full-length 'pop' and crutches were required. After the pain subsided, a knitting needle was very useful. The plaster was well-scribed too. I had to attend the fracture clinic at Walton Hospital, Liverpool and still recall Dennis the ambulance gent. He was a great laugh.

I was reminded of this on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, 07:24:35 & 08:55:25, 11 March. Two guests recounted the start of their cycling careers, as adult and a child. British Cycling has started a campaign having found:

Apparently, 97% of children from the richest backgrounds can ride a bike.

While only 86% of children from the poorest backgrounds are able.

This equates to 350,000 children, who would like to ride a bike but can not.

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Experiences, skills MENTAL HEALTH Memory - of 'taking flight' Life skill: "It's like riding a bike!" Healthcare role model Ambulance staff 'Dennis'	Sustainability PHYSICAL HEALTH Accessibility 350,000 children would like to ride a bike. Fracture clinic Tibia
Childhood - Friends Adult - Parenthood Cycling clubs Socialisation Social Justice Engagement - Play	Inequality 97% of children richest backgrounds can ride a bike. Only 86% of children from the poorest backgrounds

There is an APPG for Cycling and Walking, which is also seeking to address accessibility:

British Cycling backs social justice inquiry to improve access and appeal of cycling to all

When there is a new link I will add it here. In the meantime, can you get on your bike!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028swm

Previously: APPG : Cycling : Sport

c/o HIFA2015 - Meeting Information needs for Mental Health Care

Dear all.

I've been reading the messages about mental health and information needs in low resource settings. I agree that it's still such a disappointment that certain publishers refuse to make these core documents / books (like Where there is no Psychiatrist and Where there is no Child Psychiatrist) open access. Hope 2013 will bring changes......

I know a few free online/download alternatives for the mental health field:

In the Hesperian.org bookstore you find free downloads of a couple of health care guides in different languages including 'Where Women have No Doctor'. This book contains a brief mental health care chapter. Other helpful Hesperian books like 'Disabled Village Children', and the 'famous one' 'Where there is no Doctor'.
Link: http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources

Another is the WHO 'mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings'. Free download in English, French and Spanish. This is a 109 pages decision tree manual for depression, psychosis, bipolar disorders, epilepsy, developmental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents, dementia, alcohol use disorders, drug use disorders, self-harm/suicide and other significant emotional or medically unexplained complaints. It contains also  a chapter on 'general principles of care' and a brief chapter on 'advanced psychological interventions'.
Link: http://www.who.int/mental_health/publications/mhGAP_intervention_guide/en/index.html

The international NGO Basic Needs offers downloads of manuals and reports like 'Community Mental Health Practice, Seven Essential Features for Scaling Up in Low and Middle Income Countries', 'Essential Skills for mental health care',  'Mental Health Care, An Introductory Manual for Training General Health Personnel' amongst others.
Link for books: http://www.basicneeds.org/html/Publications_BasicNeeds_Books.htm
Link for manuals: http://www.basicneeds.org/html/Publications_BasicNeeds_Manuals.htm

For mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings the WHO/World Vision/War Trauma Foundation publication is very helpful: 'Psychological First Aid: Guide for field workers', 60 pages and lots of illustrations.
Link for the PDF:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241548205_eng.pdf

Or the WHO/IASC 'Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings', 205 pages and free downloads available in 7 languages. The manual is distributed on CDrom as well.
Link: http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/9781424334445/en/index.html

For psychosocial support of children the NGO HealthNetTPO offers free downloads of their 'Psychosocial Care Package Children' with Modules, Tools and Publications sections. It contains information that describes the rationale, content and step-by-step implementation of the separate components of a comprehensive psychosocial care package (such as a Classroom Based Intervention, Counseling, Clinical Supervision, Screening and Psycho-education).
Link: http://www.healthnettpo.org/en/1311/psychosocial-care-package-children.html

In the field of psychosocial support for children and adults after emergencies or in HIV projects, the IFRC Psychosocial Centre offers free downloads of their manual like 'Psychosocial interventions - A
handbook', 'Community-based psychosocial support - A training kit', 'Children's Resilience Programme' and more.
Link: ...
This is where I stumbled on in the last few years. Hope it is helpful. Maybe I should write a blog post about it on the in2mentalhealth website, in order to make a comprehensive list which is available on
the internet for a longer period of time. So, if you have any additions please reply in this discussion or mail me with the link!

'Together we know more'.

Roos Korste
psychologist, trainer, blogger and founder of in2mentalhealth:

http://facebook.com/in2mentalhealth

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rooskorste

Plus:
Thanks for the comprehensive list Roos. Handicap International developed a Policy Paper on : "Mental health in post-crisis and development contexts" which can be found here [PDF, 1.1Mb]:

http://www.handicap-international.us/fileadmin/files/documents/PP03_Mental_health_01.pdf

Do feel free to add this to your list of materials. [ *see note below ]

Kind regards

Antony
Antony Duttine
Rehabilitation Technical Advisor in Global Health

[ *Note from HIFA2015 moderator: Neil Pakenham-Walsh

I would also like to mention the Essential Health Links (EHL) gateway. EHL was set up by myself and Lenny Rhine while I was working at INASP in the late 90s and early 00s. It is now hosted by AED Satellife and Lenny continues to maintain it on a voluntary basis. The Mental Health and Psychiatry section is available here:
http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/mental-health-and-psychiatry

Essential Health Links has more than 750 websites selected according to criteria such as appropriateness for low-resource settings and free access. "Essential Health Links is offered freely for use as a template by others (e.g. medical school libraries, ministries of health, publishers, libraries, NGOs) to develop customised gateways on their own websites. This approach should reduce the risk of duplication of effort while maximising the usefulness of the gateway for specific target groups."

With thanks, Neil PW ]

Hybrid therapy (Early) c/o Fernández-Navarro, Camarós, and Garate

... Family and Art Therapy?

 

Abstract

"This paper presents rock art as a collective action in which different strata of society took part, including children and subadults. Until recent decades archaeology of childhood has not been in the main focus of the archaeological research, much less the participation of those children in the artistic activity. The present study approaches the palaeodemography of artists in the decorated caves through the paleolithic rock art itself. The approximate age of these individuals has been calculated through the biometric analysis of hand stencils in the caves of Fuente del Salín, Castillo, La Garma, Maltravieso and Fuente del Trucho, using 3D photogrammetric models as reference. The results have been compared with a modern reference population in order to assign the Palaeolithic hands to certain age groups. It has been demonstrated the presence of hand stencil motifs belongs to infants, children and juveniles, revealing this stratum's importance in the artistic activity."

 

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	[Fig. 4. ] Study measurement system and current sample measurement 1. Hand Length; 2. Hand Width; 3. Thumb Length; 4. Thumb Width; 5. Index finger Length; 6. Index finger Width; 7. Middle finger Length; 8. Miggle finger; 9. Ring finger Length; 10. Ring finger Width; 11. Little finger Length; 12. Little finger.
"Children may have had a hand in a quarter of prehistoric art"

Fernández-Navarro, V., Camarós, E., & Garate, D. (2022). Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists’ age estimation through cave art hand stencils. Journal of Archaeological Science, 140, 105574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105574

My source:

Badcock, James. "Children may have had a hand in a quarter of prehistoric art". The Daily Telegraph. 12 March 2022, p.15.

Processing people ... in Nursing and Social Services

 When the nursing process was introduced in the UK in the late 1970s - early 1980s, the change was resisted to a degree with concern that patients were at risk of being  'processed': assessed, care planned, interventions delivered then evaluated, discharged or re-assessed. ...

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play  my quality of life my quality of care Emotional, Health and Care Plans Teaching Assistant provision continuity of care  'demand'	time my quality of life my quality of care self-care - feeding 23% rise in demand  for school transport Human geography 'supply'
families 'informal carers' needs that can (supposedly) be met at home Government funding crisis social inclusion social capital Care in the community 'demand'	£4bn overall funding gap in children's services Children and Families Act Index of Multiple Deprivation Needs-based funding? Children with special educational needs and disabilites (SEND) Parental resort to specialist tribunal courts: 96% legal challenges successful (2022) National / local taxation 'supply' 'broken' social care market - "dysfunctional"

"The costs are rising inexorably," he said. "Children are very often being processed rather than looked after."

Williams, J. Children at sharp end of council funding crisis, FTWeekend, 2-3 December 2023, p.3.

🤔Just a thought - every supply has a supply' every demand a demand' potentially duplicated across the care domains.

Project: Partners against Stigma and Mortality in Epilepsy (PASME) Cameroon

Boyo Association for Rural Development (BARUDEV - Cameroon) has launched a project on epilepsy called Partners against Stigma and Mortality in Epilepsy (PASME).

We are calling for partnerships and support for our project on epilepsy which will focus on mental health and psychosocial support, treatment, knowledge and skills exchange,raising awareness, rights protection amongst patients affected and or bereaved by epilepsy, health care providers. Also reduce seizures and consequences particularly in children and adolescents living with epilepsy and HIV/AIDS. 

• ADVOCACY AND AWARENESS. Promoting awareness and supporting initiatives that prevent epilepsy. Prioritize epilepsy at national and international levels, while lobbying and advocating support for partners and governments to prioritize epilepsy into their health programs and policies.
• TREATMENT AND SUPPORT. Provide access to treatment and support initiatives that improve access to effective treatment including medications and their therapies. 
• PROVIDE BEST-PRACTICE MODELS. Develop and share models for effective management of epilepsy in diverse settings including conflicts and disasters where people are forced to displace.
• BUILD CAPACITIES THROUGH TRAINING. Advance training and information sharing for healthcare givers, CHWs and family care givers involved in epilepsy care. 
• PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY. Advocate for the accessibility of services, protection of human rights and preservation of dignity for all with epilepsy including children and adolescents living with epilepsy and HIV/AIDS. 
• EMPOWERMENT AND RIGHTS: Lobby and advocate for the rights of people with epilepsy through their associations and to enable them participate in decision making processes. 
• RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION: Foster research through encouragement and support in epilepsy including causes, prevention, treatment and social impact. Strengthen their associations, develop and support them through mental health and psychosocial support projects and ensuring and protecting their well-being and their families.

BARUDEV is currently building a website (which I will add upon news - PJ).

Please contact me if you need further information

HIFA (my source) profile: Chiabi Bernard Ful is Director of Boyo Association for Rural Development (BARUDEV--Cameroon). This is a local NGO found in Boyo district of North Western Cameroon. Our activities are to empower women, protect the sexual and reproductive health for women and girls, and protect the rights of children. We have been training community health workers to follow up patients, pregnant women, sick children and refer them to the hospital.
barudev AT yahoo.co.uk

The Cass Review Interim Report ... reflections ...

 ... that may stand for themselves?

[ with my emphasis ]

Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people: 

Interim report

February 2022

Introduction from the Chair

"... the aim of the Review is to ensure that children and young people who are experiencing gender incongruence or gender-related distress receive a high standard of NHS care that meets their needs and is safe, holistic and effective." p.11.

 

"As with autism, the framework for assessment needs to become formalised so there are clearer criteria for diagnosis and treatment pathways which are shared more widely. These should incorporate not just whether the child or young person meets DSM-5 criteria for gender dysphoria, but how a broader psychosocial assessment should be conducted and evaluated, and what other factors need to be considered to gain a holistic understanding of the child or young person’s experience. Professional judgement and experience will still be important, but if the frameworks and criteria for assessment and diagnosis were more consistent and reproducible, there would be a greater likelihood that two different people seeing the same child or young person would come to the same conclusion." p.60.

"Assessment and management: All children and young people who are referred to specialist services should have a competent local multi-disciplinary assessment and should remain under active holistic local management until they are seen at a specialist centre." p.92.

[ and from: https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/ ]

"Dr Cass has now sent further advice on the core components of this model. You can read the advice in full here.

In summary, she has said:

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• ‘The services should have an appropriate multi-professional workforce to enable them to provide an integrated model of care that manages the holistic needs of this population’.

• ‘Staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective to embed the care of children and young people with gender uncertainty within a broader child and adolescent health context’."

 

The Times: Education Commission

"An education commission is being set up by The Times that could lead to radical change across schools and universities.

It brings together experts including senior MPs, head teachers, academics, vice-chancellors and a children’s author who will work on the year-long project that is expected to inform government policy. They say school closures during the pandemic and the resulting surge in online learning have provided the perfect opportunity for an overhaul of the system to be considered."

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Lifelong Learning (Attitude (cognitive access)) Knowledge & Skills (Purpose of education) Critical thinking, Problem Solving, Reflection	Curriculum New Technology (Anticipating AI & Robotic Process Automation) Lifelong Learning (Physical access, Technology Enhanced Learning)
Lifelong Learning Social mobility (Social access) Exclusions Social skills How many forms of 'literacy'? Team work / Collaboration Challenge social gender stereotypes	Lifelong Learning (Policy, Economic access) Government policy - Work creation University entrants - nos. Exams? Curriculum 21st Century Qualifications Still the 'Two Cultures'?

My source:

Woolcock, N. (2021) Push to give children a better start, The Times, March 24, p.4; The pandemic has exposed weaknesses in education, leading article, p. 27.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-education-commission-children-better-start-lockdown-5bvf2bhwm

c/o BBC Radio 4 & Facts4Life - Balance Ball

The following is taken from the transcript of the BBC Radio 4 programme "Inside Health" which I heard today and an image from the resources of Facts4Life which featured as an item.

I have always wondered what is the youngest age at which Hodges' model might be taught. I have noted before how the model can be used implicitly - guiding the professional - or explicitly with the patient or group having insight into the model. The approach of Facts4Life is well worth publicising in the ability and intelligence that children can and should be credited with ...

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... We might have somebody else who’s representing emotions, you say oh I’m feeling a bit sad and grumpy, so their hand might come off.  As each hand comes off whilst the body or the ball wobbles it doesn’t actually fall but as more and more compromises are made, there’s more and more problems to encounter, then it could get to the point where they drop the ball altogether.  And that could be oh perhaps we need a bit of help here, what could we do to help get this body back in balance. ... Green

Around year three we’ll say okay homeostasis we can explain it by using a balance ball.  So a balance ball like a yoga ball.  And the ball represents the body and then we talk to the children about how an illness might look. ... Green  Traditionally there’s been a lot of focus around very black and white concepts that you have good drugs and bad drugs.  Adults tend to make things black and white because they think that’s simplifying things and actually children are really good at grappling with big ideas. Green

Facts4Life

Do you think historically that we have been too black and white then, that we’ve sort of had health in one pocket and illness in another and never the twain shall meet? Porter I do, as a profession yes and as a society there is at the moment an easy contract between the population, as it were, and the health professionals and the contract is that whatever’s wrong with people we will deliver a solution. Toft

I also note on Facts4Life's website, the audiences they are appealing to. I see Hodges' model as being applicable to:

Students - Learners (the research community)
Carers - members of the public
Teachers - Lecturers
Policy makers and Managers

So, if you need a conceptual balance ball: here + catch!

@Facts4Life
Inside Health - BBC Radio 4

World Drowning Prevention Day 25th July 2024

Every year, an estimated 236,000 people drown, making drowning a major public health problem worldwide. Drowning is one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people aged 1-24 years. Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths.

The global burden of death from drowning is felt in all economies and regions, however:

• low- and middle-income countries account for over 90% of unintentional drowning deaths; 
• over half of the world's drowning occurs in the WHO Western Pacific Region and WHO South-East Asia Region; 
• drowning death rates are highest in the WHO Western Pacific Region, and are 27-32 times higher than those seen in the United Kingdom or Germany, respectively.

World Drowning Prevention Day

World Drowning Prevention Day, declared in April 2021 by General Assembly resolution A/RES/75/273 <https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/75/273>, is held annually on 25 July. This global advocacy event serves as an opportunity to highlight the tragic and profound impact of drowning on families and communities and to offer life-saving solutions to prevent it.

Find more information in the following link: 

https://www.un.org/en/observances/drowning-prevention-day 

In your country, are there any initiatives to prevent drowning?

Here are some of the measures shared at the United Nations web site.

• installing barriers controlling access to water;
• providing safe places away from water such as crèches for pre-school children with capable childcare;
• teaching swimming, water safety and safe rescue skills;
• training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation;
• setting and enforcing safe boating, shipping and ferry regulations;
• improving flood risk management.

My source (with video added above and Hodges' model below):

Jackeline. HIFA-Spanish Moderator

HIFA profile: Jackeline Alger, MD, PhD, is a parasitologist associated to the Department of Clinical Laboratory of the University Hospital; Executive Director of the Antonio Vidal Institute for Infectious Diseases and Parasitology; Tegucigalpa, Honduras. HIFA Country Representative of the Year for the years 2015 and 2018. Email jackelinealger AT gmail.com

The bullet points above mapped to Hodges' model, with additions (italics).

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teaching swimming, water safety and safe rescue skills training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation awareness of risk situations confidence to learn to swim	installing barriers controlling access to water providing safe places away from water such as crèches for pre-school children with capable childcare improving flood risk management
teaching swimming, water safety and safe rescue skills training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation family and community impacts SOCIO-	funding - prioritisation setting and enforcing safe boating, shipping and ferry regulations improving flood risk management facilities for safe & effective teaching -ECONOMIC   LMICs

Previously 2022

APPGs - All Party Parliamentary Groups (Revisited: One-By-One ...?)

Previously in "How many APPGs does your Garden Grow?", I wondered about the number and variety of APPGs related to health and social care. How do they integrate their work, the inputs, outputs and impact on legislation, policy, safety, standards, delivery of care and sustainability in the future? 

A selection of APPGs includes:

APPG on 22q11 Syndrome
APPG on Access to Medicines and Medical Devices
APPG on Acquired Brain Injury
APPG on Adult Social Care
APPG on Ageing and Older People
APPG on Air Pollution
APPG on Allergy
APPG on Antibiotics
APPG on Arts, Health and Wellbeing 
APPG on Autism
APPG on Axial Spondyloarthritis
APPG on Baby Loss
APPG on Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing
APPG on Black Maternal Health
APPG on Bladder and Bowel Continence Care
APPG on Blood Cancer
APPG on Brain Tumours
APPG on Breast Cancer
APPG on Bullying
APPG on Cancers
APPG on Carbon Monoxide
APPG on Cardiac Risk in the Young
APPG on Carers
APPG on Cerebral Palsy
APPG on Childhood Trauma
APPG on Children of Alcoholics
APPG on Children who Need Palliative Care
APPG on Children, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer
APPG on Cleaning and Hygiene
APPG on Complex Need and Dual Diagnosis
APPG on Coronavirus
APPG on Dementia and Adult Social Care
APPG on Dementia
APPG on Dentistry and Oral Health
APPG on Disability
APPG on Down Syndrome
APPG on Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties
APPG on Eating Disorders
APPG on Extreme Poverty
APPG on Eye Health and Visual Impairment
APPG on Food and Health
[APPG on Further Education and Lifelong Learning]
APPG on Gaps in Support
APPG on Global Health
APPG on Health
APPG on Health and the Natural Environment
APPG on Health in all Policies
APPG on Health Infrastructure
APPG on HIV and AIDS
APPG on Learning Disability
APPG on Multiple Sclerosis
APPG on PANS and PANDAS
APPG on Parkinson's
APPG on Terminal Illness
APPG on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
[APPG on Whistleblowing]
APPG on Yoga in Society
APPG on Young People's Health

There is a 'full' register at:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/220323/register-220323.pdf

Revisiting the previous post and its list of APPGs, extended above, you can see some obvious potential sources of influence for several APPGs.

Scanning the register with the list of APPG by countries, I was disappointed not to see Earth, or Gaia listed. But then they are probably not recognised as 'political' entities? Which is the ongoing challenge in the climate crisis (recognition of ecocide?). 

What about, more reasonably 'Global Health'? This was not listed as a country, but further reading is rewarded. There it is - 'Global Health':

https://globalhealth.inparliament.uk/

[ The link in the register is currently broken. ]

I should have remembered this APPG having posted before:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2016/10/triple-impact-nursing.html

On the radio this past week I heard mention of Transparency International and published recommendations to control lobbying, prevent corruption and malign influences of sponsorship.

See also:

"APPGs scandal: MP reveals how lobby firm tried to use her to influence Parliament"

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/appgs-scandal-mp-reveals-lobby-firm-tried-influence-parliament-alison-thewliss-snp/

This post also helps inform a paper on Hodges' model, Early Intervention in Psychoses and research.

There are so many APPGs related to health, and associated with the purposes of Hodges' model.

One discovery - I must follow the APPG on Health Infrastructure.