Health interviews. Stepping off the medical treadmill.
Ealing health authority's new school health programme aims to cut out routine--and often unnecessary--medicals for all new primary school entrants. The health interview is a key part of the process of identifying children with health needs for medical examination. The new programme not only releases school nurse time for developing health promotion activities within the core curriculum, writes Carole Mattock. It also acknowledges the important lead role of the school nurse within the school health service.
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