6. And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day ?
Robert Louis Stevenson
12. Day 1 of the National Health Service
5th July 1948
13. Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today,
they have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated
with tenderness and respect .
Janusz Korczack
14. The child must be protected beyond and above all considerations of race,
nationality or creed. Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1948.
16. The Platt Report (1959)
Sir Harry Platt FRCS
Main recommendations from
report:
• Children should not be
admitted to hospital if it
could possibly be avoided.
•Parents should be allowed to
visit their child whenever
they can, and to help as much
as possible with the care of
the child .
(Davies, 2010)
24. Total Community Children’s Nurses
in Wales (Davies,2010)
• Scoping exercise across whole of Wales
through CCN Forum
• No more than 40-45 (WTE) across whole of
Wales
• No team provides 24/7 support or care
• Under RCN formula Wales needs at least 280
(WTE) to serve all of Wales
26. Since 2008 CYP Nurses
Swansea University
2008 19
2009 18
2010 18
2011 16
2012 19
2013 19
2014 16
TOTAL 125
27. 2011
‘I think this should be on
the must read list not just
of undergraduate and post
graduate nursing students
but of all practitioners
working with children an d
young people’.
Keith Towler
Children’s Commissioner
for Wales
30. Research with
CYP Nurses
‘A comparative
study of nursing
morale within
children’s
palliative care:
The Hospice and
Community
Perspective’.
Dr Eryl Maunder
2013
31.
32. My babe so beautiful !
It thrills my heart with tender gladness, thus to look at thee.
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
33. Many ‘Brians’ do not
survive childhood in the
developing world
Under five mortality rate
(per 1000 live births) by
region Infant. Mortality
Worldwide (1960- 2005)
UNICEF
35. I don’t want to be sweet and neat.
I don’t want someone living their life for me,
I want to be free.
I’m going to turn this world inside out.
Toyah
36. ‘Little children , love one another.
Remember we are not many selves but members of a community’.
Florence Nightingale
37. St Michael who loves the hills. Pray for Wales,
St Michael friend of the sick, remember us.
Saunders Lewis
