The Family Nurse Partnership programme in Scotland: improving outcomes for child, parents, and societyPerformance Indicators A wide range of data is collected about the programme in Scotland including an externally commissioned evaluation looking at the transferability of the model into the Scottish context early signs are promising. The programme is seeing high uptake of the programme, low attrition, good fidelity to the model and nurses feeling empowered and well supervised to support vulnerable families – click here for more. The Department of Health has also commissioned a randomized control trail due to report next year. The findings of the trial will have significant impact on FNP in UK. The FNP model improves pregnancy outcomes, child health and development and mother's life course in the short, medium and longer-term. In the US research, FNP children and mothers, mainly those who were high risk with low psychological resources, compared to children and mothers in the comparison group had (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/nursing/ModernisingCommunityNursi/MNCBoardMeetings/FNPClick here for more information): Improved Pregnancy Outcomes
Improved Child Health and Development Increase in Children's School Readiness
Increase in Academic Achievement
Better Mental Health and Risk Taking Behaviour
Reduction in Criminal Activity
Reduced Child Abuse and Maltreatment
Improved Maternal Self Sufficiency and Life Course Development Fewer Unintended Subsequent Pregnancies
Increase in Labour Force Participation by the Mother
Reduction in Welfare Use
Increase in Father Involvement
More Sustained Relationships with Partner
Reduction in Criminal Activity
The information above is drawn from three different NFP trials, each of which has followed families up at different points in time and measured different factors which is why different outcomes are evident at different ages. This list sets outs the main benefits observed. There were also a number of measures that showed no significant differences between the FNP group and the comparison groups, again these varied between the trials and time points. |
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Gail Trotter Family Nurse Partnership Implementation Lead (Scotland) Elke Loeffler and Gail Trotter wrote this case study in 2012.
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