Welcome/Who we are:
WMPHO
host this site to bring you up-to-date information about infant feeding.
The Department of Health West Midlands is supporting best practice developments
around the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in the West Midlands Region. It also
works to raise awareness of the risks of and best practice relating to safe use of artificial feeding
methods.
In your area you will have a local breastfeeding/infant feeding lead
worker/coordinator. They will attend the West Midlands Regional Infant feeding Co-ordinator's Network.
If you do not know your local co-ordinator and want to raise an issue from your locality, please
get in touch.
For details of who the Network reports to, how it is made up and other groups and
networks that it communicates with, please see the
West Midlands Regional Organisational
Structure: Infant Feeding.
Your West Midlands Regional Infant Feeding Co-ordinator:
Caroline Mansell,
Department of Health West Midlands
caroline.mansell@nhs.net
Children, Families & Maternity Bulletin, July 2010
Edition 62 of the Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin contains the following items:
- General News
- ‘Liberating the NHS’ – White Paper published 12 July
- Chief Medical Officer’s Public Health Awards May 2010
- £30 million funding for Children’s Palliative Care projects
- ‘Different Disciplines, Common Experience’ Nursing Grant
- Maternity
- Maternity Support Workers (MSWs) Learning and Development Guide
- Strengthening Preceptorship – Work in Yorkshire and Humber SHAs
- Health in Pregnancy Grant – Coming to an End
- Healthy Child Programme and Early Years
- NHS London Call for Health Visitors to Return to Work
- Advice on Feeding Honey to Babies
- Child Health
- British Lung Foundation launch its Children’s Charter
- Reducing the Differences in the Update of Immunisations – Hepatitis B
- CWDC Refreshes Common Core of Skills and Knowledge
- New Anaesthesia Information for Children
- C4EO’s sector-led Tailored Support service
- Publication of Not Just a Phase: A Guide to the Participation of Children and Young People in Health Services
- Vulnerable Children
- Munro Review of Child Protection
- ContactPoint
- Review of the Vetting and Barring Scheme
- New report: ‘Family Perspectives on Safeguarding and on Relationships with Children’s Services’
- Child protection clinical networks
- New Online Tool to Assist Victims of Forced Marriage
- Ill and Disabled Children
- Launch of New Website for Young People Living With Cancer
- Medikidz – Explaining Medical Conditions to Children
- Conferences and events
- ‘The Reality’ – National Conference on Bringing Care Closer to Home for Children 22nd September
- Sources of information
- Department of Health Update - Place Your Order Online
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