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"Change takes time," explains Ailsa Swarbrick, national unit director of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP). It has been more than a decade since FNP launched and this is one of the reasons Swarbrick gives for the "very positive movement" her team is seeing in its outcomes recently.
"FNP is quite a complex programme to deliver, with an enormous amount of knowledge but also new practice - and that takes time to embed," she explains. "Most people who come from other forms of public health nursing attest to the difference between being an FNP nurse and being a health visitor or midwife. We've now been delivering FNP for nearly 12 years and I think we have all gained more experience."
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