New pregnancy pack for midwives and healthcare professionals
A new pregnancy pack is now available for all midwives, healthcare professionals and local stop smoking advisers who work with pregnant women. The new pack has been updated to provide support for healthcare professionals in encouraging parents-to-be to quit smoking and to be as healthy as possible throughout their pregnancy and beyond.
Following feedback on the previous pack, the new pack is a more user-friendly A5 folder, and uses the supportive Start4Life branding to make tackling smoking with pregnant women easier. It also contains additional information on breastfeeding and weaning that pregnant women find useful to receive during their pregnancy.
Additional copies of the pack, along with the Smokefree items in the pack (with the exception of the flashcards and the pack introductory leaflet) are available for order via the Smokefree Resource Centre. The pack is available to order in quantities up to 10. If you require a larger quantity, please email your request to smokefree@dh.gsi.gov.uk
To order additional copies of the Start4Life leaflets and the Information Service for Parents stickers, please visit www.orderline.dh.gov.uk
The pack contains:
- A leaflet explaining the pack and its contents
- Flashcards to help guide the conversation about smoking with pregnant women
- ‘Everything you need to help pregnant women quit smoking’ – Smokefree leaflet for healthcare professionals explaining Ask, Act, Advise and the most commonly asked questions about smoking during pregnancy
- ‘Baby on the way, quit today’ – Smokefree leaflet for mums-to-be, explaining the risks of smoking to their unborn child and answering the most commonly asked questions
- ‘Being a parent starts right now’ – Smokefree leaflet for partners
- ‘Off to the best start’ – Start4Life leaflet about breastfeeding
- ‘Introducing solid foods’ – Start4Life leaflet about weaning
- Sticker sheet with details about the Information Service for Parents for use on handheld pregnancy notes
>> Order the new pregnancy pack
Comments
This leaflet is blnaatt propoganda is this even allowed under the rules of purdah? Where is the evidence that that dismantling one buraucracy and spending millions on building another will address the issues identified? Where is the evidence that targets have been terrible for patient care when everyone agrees that the NHS has never been in a better state? And if hospital doctors need their time freeing up to focus on patients, why should GPs have to spend all their time on buraucary instead? Who will train the extra GPs required if doctor time is spent running a health system?The reforms will not give more power to the patient, just more power to consortia, patients already have choice.Take away the purchaser provider split and have primary and secondary care working collaboratively, take away artificial market mechanisms then you’d really cut buraucary. Are you really going to allow hospitals to go bust? Even the private sector aren’t going to be keen to snap up struggling organisations with huge PFI debts round their neck.Change may be needed, but not this change.
From Neha, on 5. October 2012 02:56 - Reply
The document is a study in soednbitus and misdirection. The demonisation of an entire profession in Working Together for a Stronger NHS’ is both unjustified and offensive. Many managers in the NHS are highly qualified professionals in multiple business disciplines. Managers have jumped to the tune of successive governments implementing half baked polictical and beurocratic backside covering idea’s beacuse they’ve had to not because they agreed. As a country we can’t afford the NHS with year on year rising demand we get it we are not stupid. However, there won’t be any listening’ to how we could tackle this without destroying the best of what the NHS has to offer and there won’t be any meaningful debate with the country about that because it’s far easier to blame managers and transfer the responsibility to Doctors then politicians can blame them. Lansley reforms will not deliver anything but more cost and then more beurocracy to try and stem that rising cost.
From Francia, on 5. October 2012 23:52 - Reply