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Melanie Hayward

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✨Associate Professor - IHSC @bnuni.bsky.social ✨RN Child, RSN SCPHN, CPNP, RNT (TCH), FHEA, FRSA ✨Chair NASNA ✨England Rep & Comms CYPNAUK ✨Consult Editor JoFCH ✨Academic Advisor SAPHNA & CYPStNN ✨Cofounder NurseAcademicUK ✨#Fit4CYP Project Member

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Nov 21

📚Successful Studying for Nursing Students is now available to buy!

🎉 Perfect for #nursing #students aiming to excel in their studies

Get your copy today and start your journey to success! 🩺📖

#SuccessfulStudying #SuccessfulStN #NewNotesOnNursing

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Successful Studying for Nursing Students - 9780443107115 | Elsevier Health

Welcome to nursing! Successful Studying for Nursing Students is part of the New Notes on Nursing series, a series created especially for you, the nursing student at the start of your nursing journey. ...

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Aug 17

Last week on Wonkhe: Jonathan Batty argues that widening participation will only deliver real change when it is co-developed with partners in places

Working with our places will help us to spread the benefits of higher education more widely

Jonathan Batty argues that widening participation will only deliver real change when it is co-developed with partners in places

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · Aug 17

Health inequalities are widening. Life expectancy is falling. Has the government's 10 Year Health Plan gone far enough when it comes to preventing ill health?

🎧 New podcast episode with @hellomccracken.bsky.social, @sarah-arnold.bsky.social and Danielle Jefferies out now: buff.ly/EzTXdgu

Will The 10 Year Health Plan Really Tackle The Nation’s Health Crisis? | The King's Fund

Health inequalities are widening. Life expectancy is falling. Has the government's 10 Year Health Plan gone far enough when it comes to preventing ill health?

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Research & Knowledge Exchange at Buckinghamshire New University @researchbnu.bsky.social · Aug 12

@melhayward.bsky.social Lead for Quality Assurance & Enhancement & Chair of National Association of School Nurse Academics (NASNA) celebrates the strategic affiliation between the School & Public Health Nurses Association & NASNA

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Comment: Strengthening the Academic Voice in School Nursing: Celebrating NASNA and SAPHNA partnership

Melanie Hayward Associate Professor and Lead for Quality Assurance and Enhancement (IHSC) and Chair of National Association of School Nurse Academics (NASNA) explores the NASNA and SAPHNA partnership ...

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 23

What Is Prevention In Health? | The King's Fund
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What Is Prevention In Health? | The King's Fund

Different people mean different things by prevention. Here, we set out some of the different ways it is understood.

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 14

New report #ReducingParentalConflict Challenge Fund (2023–24) shows how digital tools + tailored support can help families navigate conflict

Let’s build on what works
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Evidence matters
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Families matter

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Reducing Parental Conflict Challenge Fund: final learning report March 2025

Final analysis of the eight projects set up to build on the evidence and learning from the first Challenge Fund delivered in 2019 to 2020.

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 13

Calling #NurseAcademics, new video resources for Successful Studying for Nursing Students are now live!

Study skills, critical thinking & more - perfect for supporting your learners

Access: evolve.elsevier.com → Create/login → Request access to the book → View resources

Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 10

Attended the @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social All in for Attendance conference

Powerful insights on tackling chronic absenteeism through public health, trauma-informed care & #schoolnursing

School nurses are essential to student wellbeing. Lets act on the data

#PublicHealth #ChronicAbsence

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 8

📢 Calling UK #SCPHN #SchoolNurse academics!

Join the National Association of School Nurse Academics #NASNA & become part of a vibrant community dedicated to advancing School Nurse Education

🌟 Click the link to sign up - it's free!
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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 6

In #CYP services, tough talks with parents are inevitable

Sophie Baker offers guidance in #CommunityCare on handling these with empathy and clarity

Essential reading for all #CYP health and social care practitioners

#CYPPractice #ChildProtection

www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/06/05/w...

'What I wish I had known about having difficult conversations with parents' - Community Care

A social worker with over 20 years’ experience reflects on a difficult conversation early in her career and what she would have done differently

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 5

CYP Now - Campaigners hail free school meals expansion as 'significant step' in tackling child poverty www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

Campaigners hail free school meals expansion as 'significant step' in tackling child poverty - CYP Now

Child poverty campaigners have welcomed the government’s decision to extend eligibility for free school meals to half a million more children next year.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Jun 5

Peer mentoring, inclusive resources and academic skills training can reduce the attainment gap, explain staff at Nottingham Trent University. Learn how: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/libra... #AcademicSky #EduSky

The library’s role in reducing the attainment gap

Read about strategies aimed at closing attainment gaps, such as peer mentoring, inclusive resources and academic skills training to support students

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Nursing Times @nursingtimes.bsky.social · Jun 5

Amid the abolition of NHS England and major workforce reforms, chief nursing officer for England Duncan Burton shares his vision for nursing’s role in a transformed health service.

Read the exclusive interview with Nursing Times below 👇

www.nursingtimes.net/leadership/i...

Interview: England CNO talks NHS reforms and nursing | Nursing Times

Read an exclusive interview with England chief nursing officer Duncan Burton about NHS reforms and other issues facing the profession.

www.nursingtimes.net

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 5

Great work team! @bnuni.bsky.social

Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 5

UK HEIs are increasingly boxed in on six sides:
1 increasing regulation
2 rising costs
3 falling income for each domestic student
4 uncertain future demand from international students 5 increasing availability of alternative routes
6 shrinking population
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/05/u...

Universities are boxed in: Is there a way out? - HEPI

UK higher education institutions are increasingly boxed in on six sides: In this pacey and timely paper, Professors Diana Beech and André Spicer take a look at the situation and propose some different...

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Gail Goddard @ggoddard17.bsky.social · Jun 5

Fabulous day yesterday @BNU . SCPHN and DN SPQ students held a poster event demonstrating all their innovative service improvement designs @theqicn.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @rcndcnforum.bsky.social @melhayward.bsky.social

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · May 24

Incredibly proud that Buckinghamshire New University has been named University of the Year for South East England. Voted for by students, awards don’t get more meaningful. www.whatuni.com/student-awar...

Best University of the Year in South East England: Whatuni student Choice Awards

Explore the most popular University of the Year in South East England based on reviews by 35,000+ UK university students over the last 12 months for the Whatuni Student Choice Awards.

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Jun 4

New @ma-healthcare.bsky.social #JFCH #NASNA column is out

Proud to co-author 'Supporting Digital Resilience: Embedding ‘Maddie is Online’ in SCPHN School Nurse Education'
www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....

#CYP Digital safety isn’t optional
#PublicHealth @carolinevoogd.bsky.social

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The BMJ @bmj.com · Jun 4

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference.

Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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Gail Goddard @ggoddard17.bsky.social · Jun 4

Come along to our Leadership Service Improvement Poster event @ Buckinghamshire New University today 11-13. Fabulous service improvement by SPQDN and SCPHN students 😊@theqicn.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @rcndcnforum.bsky.social

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · May 6

Just published in
@bnuni.bsky.social Research Notes Spring 2025!

Reflection of my presentation at the #SAPHNA 2024 Conference, exploring the evolving role of school nurses in safeguarding & public health

Read more on upstream care, advocacy & investment here:
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Research Notes - Spring 2025 Edition

This edition of Research Notes marks six years since the publication’s launch in 2019, reaffirming BNU’s core research values of sustainability, inclusivity, and equality. Reflecting on the growth acr...

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · May 3

Huge congratulations 🎉 to @bnuni.bsky.social practice learning partner
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust for winning Education Provider of the Year (post-registration) student nursing times award #SNTA for redefining post-registration nurse education 🥳

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Nursing Times @nursingtimes.bsky.social · May 2

The winners of the 2025 Student Nursing Times Awards have been announced.

Find out who won what here: www.nursingtimes.net/education-an...

#SNTA

Student Nursing Times Awards 2025 winners revealed | Nursing Times

Find out who won what at the 2025 Student Nursing Times Awards, which celebrate excellence in nursing and midwifery education.

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Apr 30

Teenagers with normal blood sugar are showing early signs of heart damage

A new study links this to poor diet, obesity and inactivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40294628/

⚠️ Cardiometabolic risk is rising before prediabetes is diagnosed

#CYPHealth #PublicHealth

Persistent Hyperglycemia and Insulin Resistance With the Risk of Worsening Cardiac Damage in Adolescents: A 7-Year Longitudinal Study of the ALSPAC Birth Cohort - PubMed

Persistent adolescent hyperglycemia and worsening IR were associated with the risk of worsening structural and functional cardiac damage, and these were largely explained by increased fat mass.

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Melanie Hayward @melhayward.bsky.social · Apr 28

Delighted to share that I’ve been appointed field External Examiner for CYP Nursing @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social !

A CYP academic team that champions public health 🌱, meaningful simulation 🩺, and partnership with CYP 🤝 — values close to my heart

✨ #CYPnursing #ExternalExaminer #CivicImpact

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Apr 12

This week on Wonkhe: England's universities regulator has found measures designed to protect students to be outdated, insufficient and ineffective in practice. Jim Dickinson wonders if it will do anything about it

It's students that suffer when those supposed to protect them fail

England's universities regulator has found measures designed to protect students to be outdated, insufficient and ineffective in practice. Jim Dickinson wonders if it will do anything about it England's...

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