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Dr Hilary Angwin Tel: 01707 369688 Charter House Parkway Welwyn Garden City Herts AL8 6JL
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NHS Communications

On this section of The Grid you will find communication material from the NHS Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust.

Measuring Height & Weight in Children in Year 6 - 2011-12 updated

The Department for Education and the Department of Health have a shared programme of work to improve children’s health and wellbeing. Promoting healthy weight in children is an important part of this programme. As part of this programme, the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) requires all children in Reception and Year 6 to be weighed and measured.

This programme does not include Special Schools.

Headteachers Letter

• Acrobat pdf, 60kb/2 pages, 22/09/2011, head_letter_measuring_sept_2011.pdf

Parents Letter

• Acrobat pdf, 74kb/2 pages, 22/09/2011, parents_letter_measuring_sept_2011.pdf

The PCT has requested schools to use the template below when providing their pupil lists for the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) to their school nurse.

• Excel 2003, 22kb/1 sheet, 22/09/2011, measuring _template_schools_data_ 2011-12.xls

SITSS have prepared a report that will extract the required information from SIMS into the new version of the template. To download this report go to:

• www.thegrid.org.uk/info/traded/sitss/mis/sims/reporting.shtml#OtherReports

Chlamydia Screening

Letter to Headteachers

• Adobe pdf, 162kb/6 pages, 02/11/2009, chlamydia_screening.pdf

The New National HPV Vaccination Programme

The vaccination programme will be aimed at girls aged 12-13 years (Year 8), and will begin in September 2008.  There will also be a catch-up campaign for older girls, starting in August 2009 and running for two years.  Girls aged 16-18 years (Years 12 and 13) will be offered vaccination in 2009/2010.  Girls aged 15-17 years (Years 11 and 12) will be offered the vaccination in 2010/2011.

Headteachers Letter

• Word 2003, 463kb/2 pages, 12/06/2008, heads_letter_phv_vaccination.doc
  

Contacts

If you have any questions please contact:

Dr Hilary Angwin on
Tel: 01707 369688
Charter House
Parkway
Welwyn Garden City
Herts AL8 6JL