Editorial EDITOR Christine Walker Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3154 Email: [email protected] CONSULTANT EDITORS Doreen Crawford Senior lecturer in nursing and midwifery, De Montfort University, Leicester Annette Dearmun Divisional head of governance and nursing (children and women’s division), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Antoinette Bewley Senior lecturer, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Susan Chapman Honorary consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust David Clarke Lecturer in nursing, Cardiff University Imelda Coyne Professor of children’s nursing and director of children’s research, Trinity College Dublin Mats Eriksson Associate professor, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden Huda Abu-Saad Huijer Professor of nursing science, American University of Beirut Regina Lai Tong Lee Associate professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Orla McAlinden Lecturer in nursing (children and young people), Queen’s University Belfast Toby Mohammed Head of practice development, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Linda Shields Professor of tropical health nursing, James Cook University and Townsville Health Service District; honorary professor, Queensland University, Australia Fiona Smith RCN adviser in children’s and young people’s nursing Joanna Smith Senior lecturer in children’s nursing, University of Huddersfield Jocelyne Tourigny Professor and assistant director graduate programs, Ottowa, Canada Mark Whiting Consultant nurse, Peace Children’s Centre, Watford, and WellChild professor of community children’s nursing, University of Hertfordshire

Getting the education model right Lord Willis’s report on overhauling nurse training has been published and there is concern that any future model may not meet the needs of children and young people sufficiently. Meetings are planned by children’s nurses and academics to discuss the recommendations of the report – called Raising the Bar – which plans to change the way pre-registration nurse education and healthcare assistants are trained. There are different ideas about which model should be adopted, but what is clear from health outcomes reports that have been published and the number of public scandals on safeguarding and sexual exploitation is that there has never been a more important time to get the model right, so that nurses are trained and services are run effectively to improve children’s health (page 7).

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With a general election in the UK on May 7, a group of child health experts in the Children and Young People’s Outcomes Forum are calling for whoever forms the next government to develop a child health strategy.

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The choice of pre-registration model for nurses is crucial in view of the UK’s relatively poor health outcomes for children

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With this is mind, we outline what the main political parties have pledged to do to improve children’s health (page 8). Some ideas are a bit more concrete than others. Also in this month’s issue, with nurses being urged to make every contact count, when is the best time to offer a child and their family health promotion advice? This is particularly important if you work in a district general hospital and the child has been admitted with a condition that is more pressing. This is the dilemma posed by Nicola Greenwood and Kiara Lewis who studied acute children’s nurses’ attitudes to carrying out opportunistic health promotion with children. They found there is a tension between knowing there is a responsibility for offering advice and deciding whether an acute hospital admission is the right time or place to discuss such sensitive issues. Does the issue become something that everyone avoids – the ‘elephant in the room’ – and when is it a good time to broach the subject (page 16).

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