Association of British Paediatric Nurses

Our latest press release - the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend children’s nursing and mental health nursing programmes:

ABPN Newsletter November 2025 See the story

Our November newsletter is out now! Read it here on our website: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/WZYU...

We are delighted to announce our new Chair of the ABPN - Jean Davis! Jean has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and leadership roles across Wales and Scotland, as well as engagement with professional nursing and medical organisations at national, UK and international level.

Press release - New Chair appointed to lead the Association of British Paediatric Nurses 24th October 2025 The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jean Davies as the new Chair to lead the Association and ensure high standards of governance in line with charity commission requirements. Jean has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and leadership roles across Wales and Scotland, as well as engagement with professional nursing and medical organisations at national, UK and international level. Jean had joined the Association leadership team in October 2024 as Deputy chair. "It is an honour and privilege to have been appointed to the position of ABPN Chair. My responsibilities to the ABPN, its President, officers and members will be carried out with great care and dedication. My aim is to work closely with all those who impact on the lives of babies, children, young people and their families. In my role as ABPN Chair I will provide effective leadership and will work tirelessly with colleagues to highlight how care and service improvements are achievable through effective and active listening to ABPN members and the children, young people and families we care for" Dr Jean A. Davies, Chair Notes for editors Dr Jean A Davies - Fellow Advance HE, Programme Lead Child Field, Nursing Lecturer in Health Sciences- Nursing Children and Young People., School of Health Sciences, Bangor University The term child refers to infants, children, young people and young adults up to 25 years of age The ABPN recognises that primary and community services, as well as child public health and mental health services, including school nurses and health visitors also have a key role in supporting children, young people and families. The ABPN is the oldest children's nursing association in the world, established in 1938. Our vide membership includes experts in clinical practice, education, leadership and research

Please join us in a warm welcome to our new Chair Jean Davis! Jean has been working as Deputy Chair since October 2024 and we are delighted to have her on board as our new Chair

Pain in Young People: A New Treatment Model (ABPN Webinar) YouTube video by Association of British Paediatric Nurses

Our FREE webinar on “Pain in Young People: A New Treatment Model” is out now on our YouTube channel! Join us with Mayara Silveira Bianchim as she talks about pain in young people, a new model of treatment and how to involve young people in research!

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Its #WorldMentalHealthDay and we’re sharing some NHS findings on the prevalence children and young people’s mental health
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It’s #WorldHeartDay! And we’re celebrating Cardiovascular Nurses - what is one thing you’d like to tell people about your job? @jcardfail.bsky.social

International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) day fell on the 9th of September to raise awareness of the disorder and to show the importance of remaining alcohol free for the entire pregnancy, here’s what we had to say:

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There is the very exciting opportunity to get involved with our Journal of Child Health Care as an Associate Editor! If you’re interested click the link below to get more details 😊

NHS England » NHS kicks off winter vaccine roll out with flu jabs for children and pregnant women NHS England » NHS kicks off winter vaccine roll out with flu jabs for children and pregnant women

School immunisation teams in some areas will offer flu vaccines for 2-3 year olds in some nurseries for the first time as part of the national drive to protect more children…

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Happy Paediatrics Haematology and Oncology Nurses Day! Thank you for everything you do! 🩵 #nursing

Children’s epilepsy nurses at Hull Royal Infirmary have created some wonderful leaflets which are being used by Young Epilepsy aimed at supporting young people in the transition from paediatric care to adult epilepsy services! Read their incredible work here - www.epilepsy.org.uk/app/uploads/... 🩵

We have published a Blueprint for Community Children’s Nursing and the Report from our World Café event in March: Developing a Rights Based Approach to the Provision of Comprehensive Integrated Community Childrens’ Nursing Services

Find them both on our website: www.abpn-uk.com

We’ve created an infographic aimed at parents for keeping children safe in the heat, please feel free to share it with any parents or anywhere it could be helpful 😊🩵 #nurse #nursing

ABPN Newsletter August 2025 See the story

Our latest newsletter is out now!! Find out what’s been happening with the ABPN here: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/vBRp...

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All of our webinar recordings are out now on our YouTube channel! Go to - youtube.com/@abpn_childn... to see our full back dated catalogue now! And sign up for our upcoming webinars at www.abpn-uk.com/webinars

Keep your eyes peeled next weekend for our webinar series recordings launch! We’ve got 14 of our recordings ready to share! 🥳

2025 Cavell Survey Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

Cavell is the charity supporting nurses, midwives and nursing associates going through tough times. They are inviting our nursing and midwifery staff to complete a short anonymous survey about mental health, wellbeing and money worries.

Start the survey here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Cavell2025/

It’s #PrideMonth and we’re celebrating with an infographic on some of the ways you can support your LGBT+ child! Thanks to @stonewalluk.bsky.social for their incredible resources on this 🩵

For the final day of #DiabetesAwareness Week we’re sharing another way that Type 1 diabetes in children can be managed - insulin pumps

For day six of #diabetesawareness Week we’re sharing one of the most common methods used to help control Type 1 diabetes - insulin pens:

A huge thank you today on #WorldBloodDonorDay to those who donate blood - each time you donate you’re saving or improving the lives of 3 adults or six children!

It’s day 5 of #diabetesawareness Week and today’s infographic is a reminder that if your child shows the symptoms our other infographics talked about please see a doctor straight away 🩵

It’s day 4 of #diabetesawareness week and today’s infographic is on some of the different types of diabetes children can have outside of Type 1 and Type 2

It’s day 3 of diabetes awareness week and today we’re sharing some of the most common Type 2 symptoms:

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It’s day 2 of #diabetesawareness week! We’re sharing a new infographic every day to help raise awareness of diabetes in children! Today’s infographic is all about the most common symptoms in Type 1 diabetes in children:

It’s #diabetesawareness week and we’re sharing an infographic each day on diabetes in children to raise awareness!

FREE membership for Children’s Nurses doing their undergraduate programme!

The Association of British Paediatric Nurses is offering FREE membership for the duration of your undergraduate programme if you are studying as a pre-registration student to be a RN child!

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‘These are not numbers – they are people’: what ex-communist Slovenia can teach the world about child poverty Slovenia’s children are less likely to know deprivation than any other European nation’s. Is that because of what the country is doing now – or its socialist past?

An important piece on child poverty from a Slovenian perspective www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social

After death- care of child and family • care after deatrh, bereavement key worker role and self care

Don’t forget to register for our latest FREE webinar “After death - care of child and family” June 5th 4-5pm GMT

By Rachel Cooke - RSCN & bereavement service manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charity

Register now - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-deat...

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