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New Northern Ireland Chair for CPHVA
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Kate Boles, a health visitor who lives in Enniskillen, has been elected the new chair of the Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association in Northern Ireland.
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Kate is a practising health visitor in Omagh with the Sperrin Lakeland Health and Social Care Trust. Her main interests in practice include domestic violence and child protection.
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Her recently completed MBA explored the extent of interagency collaboration regionally in domestic violence from a health visiting perspective. She is the domestic violence liaison health visitor in her trust and also sits on the trust's domestic violence interagency forum.
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Looking ahead to her three-year tenure as chair, Ms Boles said: ‘There are a number of challenges facing the CPHVA, which I hope to address.’
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These include Agenda for Change - the new NHS pay agreement - which will pose difficulties for some, but also opens up opportunities for a great number of community nursing staff. There will be new and exciting ways of working for health visitors, district nurses, practice nurses and school nurses over the coming years.’
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The CPHVA’s Northern Ireland Professional Officer, Briege Coyle said: ‘I am greatly looking forward to working with Kate to ensure that public health is high on the agenda for politicians and NHS employers in Northern Ireland.’
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NOTE TO NEWS EDITORS
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Shaun Noble Communications Officer ( (020) 7939 7043
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mobile ( 07768 69 39 40
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CPHVA press releases can be seen on the CPHVA website: amicus-cphva.org
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The CPHVA - the UK’s third largest nursing union - represents health visitors, school nurses, practice nurses, district nurses and nursery nurses working in the community in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The CPHVA is a professional section of the Amicus trade union
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