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Birth to Five: a guide to parenthood for the first five years of life.

Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association: the UK's leading professional organisation for health visitors, school nurses, mental-health nurses, nursery nurses and other community nurses working in primary care.

Department of Health

DirectGov: public services all in one place.

Faculty of Public Health: works to improve the public's health through three key areas of activity – education and standards, professional affairs, and advocacy and policy.

Health Development Agency: of historical interest, as its functions have now been transfered to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Health Inequalities: the Health Inequalities Unit at the Department of Health works to reduce inequalities in health outcomes by ten per cent by 2010.

Healthy Start: replaces the Welfare Food Scheme, providing free vouchers every week which can be swapped for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. Free vitamins are also available.

Making Breastfeeding a Reality: the order form for a book on sharing good practice and strategies that work.

National Health Service

NHS Direct: provides information and advice about health, illness and health services.

Public Health Observatories: provides a forum for disseminating good practice, sharing methodologies, coordinating action and providing a focus for links with national organisations.

Public Health White Paper: sets out the key principles for supporting the public to make healthier and more informed choices in regards to their health.


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Last updated on 15/04/2009