Intensive care

Effective help for young first time parents and their new babies is provided by the Family Nurse Partnership. Reporting on the second year of the FNP programme, evaluation by University of London, Birkbeck noted that the project is having a positive effect on reducing smoking during pregnancy as well as increasing breastfeeding rates. FNP provides intensive support to vulnerable first time young mothers and their families. The specially trained nurses work with the families until the child is two.