For years, school nurses have said the same thing: there are not enough of us, and the gap is getting wider. Now there is official data to prove it. The Department of Health

Ask any school nurse what they want more of and the answer is almost always the same: more time with children. Too often, though, that time is swallowed up by admin. Yet a

The doors reopen this September, and with them comes a new Reception cohort waiting to be screened. Multiply that by every school nursing service in England and you get one of the NHS’s

There’s a particular kind of tired that settles in around mid-July. Not the sharp, adrenaline-fuelled exhaustion of exam season, but something softer and heavier: the tiredness of a job well done, over and

The BIOS Conference in Glasgow has been and gone, and the conversations we had there have stayed with us. Time and again, talk turned to children’s vision and just how quietly a sight

When the government published it’s 10 Year Health Plan in July 2025, much of the headline attention went to hospitals, waiting lists and the future of the family doctor. But tucked inside the