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1 Family Nurse Partnership in Kent Linda Denne Senior Commissioning Manager (Community) Child Health and Maternity Commissioning Team NHS Kent and Medway 6 th September 2012

2 Background NHS operating framework 2011-12 and 2012 -13 & Equity & Excellence 2010 - commitment to develop an additional 4200 Health Visitors (will include Family Nurse Partnership HVs) by 2015 New HV service model set out in the Health Visitor Implementation Plan 2011-2015 – A Call to Action DH Feb ‘11 Cross Government Reviews -Frank Field MP - (Poverty and life chances) -Graham Allen MP- (Early Intervention) -Claire Tickell (Early Years Foundation Stage) -Eileen Munro (Safeguarding/child protection) FNP - more than doubling the capacity from 6,000 clients to at least 13,000 by April 2015

3 New National Health Visiting Model Community - building of capacity, undertaking the new ‘building community capacity’ training module Universal - All elements of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) ‘Pregnancy and the First Five Years of Life’ led by HVs Universal Plus - rapid response from HV teams of specific, expert help Partnership plus - on-going support from HV teams working in partnership with other agencies on complex issues Safeguarding - HV service will actively contribute to the safeguarding of pre - school aged children and ensure the most current Child Protection processes are adhered to, working closely with other services particularly Social Services to support the Child Protection processes for children aged 0-5 years

4 FNP – what is it? Licensed antenatal & infancy home visiting programme Clearly embedded with partner services HCP Safeguarding Part of:- Health Visiting, - Sure Start Children’s Centres, - GP - Maternity services Improve:- pregnancy outcomes, - child health, development and future - school achievement - parents’ economic self-sufficiency

5 FNP - Acceptance Criteria 16 weeks pregnancy 1 st time parents under 20years No marketable educational qualifications Lack of meaningful social support May have other major issues i.e. mental health, illness etc. Consistency of approach re family moves

6 FNP – Visiting Pattern FN caseload of 1WTE = 25 families Training FNP consists of an intense visiting pattern as follows: Once per week for the first month Every other week through pregnancy Every other week until 21 months Once a month until the age of 2 yrs

7 Swale and Thanet Team Team in Swale and Thanet includes Sheppey, Sittingbourne and Faversham Sub License agreement signed by Chief Executives Feb 2012 1 FNP supervisor, 4 Family Nurses and 1 WTE admin Psychologist supervision 43 clients 25 clients in Thanet and 18 in Swale 5 babies born so far – 3 in Thanet and 2 in Swale 2012 -13 roll out to Maidstone – recruiting imminently

8 Monitoring DH National Unit - Support, guidance and training Dr Dulcie McBride FFPH - Service Development & Public Health Lead FNP Advisory Board - multi agency, key stakeholders, safeguarding Programme performance dashboard- demonstrate increase in numbers of clients

9 Contact Linda Denne Senior Commissioning Manager (Community) Child Health and Maternity Commissioning Team NHS Kent and Medway lindadenne@nhs.net Mobile:07545934669


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