Bribing mothers to breast feed

A controversial pilot NOSH (NOurishing Start for Health) that will financially reward new breastfeeding mothers is being launched in deprived areas of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire where breastfeeding rates are low.

Book Reviews

I've reviewed a number of books for the Nursing Standard over the years and a selection is listed here. Unfortunately the full review is not accessible without charge on their site.

Stub this hospital smoking ban out

A London NHS trust wants to ban smoking, even outdoors. Those interested in personal freedom should speak out.

Bríd Hehir’s Interview with the Nursing Times

Role Model 

Nurses and trainee nurses in Malawi and Sierra Leone have support to study and follow successful careers, thanks to Brid Hehir

Time to scrap the Care Quality Commission

The only thing the social-care monitoring quango has done is nourish tick-box culture at the expense of patient care.

The Battle for Social Policy

Published by Social Policy Forum, May 2012

Contents
About the contributors 4

Chapter 1: Introduction 6
Dave Clements

Chapter 2: Remaking citizens: from the
Big Society to behaviour change 8
Kathryn Ecclestone

Chapter 3: Doing it for charity? 16
Dave Clements

Chapter 4: Should schools be engines of
social mobility? 19
Sally Millard

Chapter 5: Radical surgery for the NHS?
What is a GP’s role today 24
Bríd Hehir

Chapter 6: Sick-note Britain? Is a
dependency culture making us ill? 27
Martin Earnshaw

Chapter 7: Conclusion 34
Martin Earnshaw4

The full content can be accessed here

Time to be charitable towards ‘chuggers

Better a street in which face-to-face fundraisers are free to annoy us than one in which they have been banned.