A Goodbye From a Former NPC Member

Written By: Sam Savage

Published Date: September 13, 2008 Last Edited: September 13, 2008

By Beswick, Kate

Letter of the month Dear editor,

I am contacting you so that I can express my thanks to Unite/ CPHVA for all the support, fun and hard work I have so enjoyed during my years as a member of the association. I have decided that it is time to retire and enjoy the next few years with my husband.

Health visiting has been a fantastic job and way of life, but I think is now so changed that it is time for me to leave and let the younger generation find out for themselves the joys and sorrows of the job. Public health and family visiting will always be there, and they need the excellence of the health visiting service.

The HVA and then the CPHVA became my life for years. I was so proud to be part of the fantastic progress and implementation of exciting changes that the association was managing at the time.

I am going to try to maintain my interest and contact with the prison service. This will not be as a paid employee of the NHS, but I hope to do voluntary work with the independent monitoring board of one of the local prisons or detention centres. I am expecting to use my public health skills in the new work, but I shall have to wait and see.

I am sorry that the Oxfordshire Centre has closed. I hope it will manage to merge with the local health branch, however there will always be a loss of clinical updating with a health visiting or child health focus.

Very best wishes for the future,

Kate Beswlck Retiring as an Oxford health visitor, former head of health care at HMYOI Huntercombe, Oxfordshire and former Unite/ CPHVA National Professional Committee (NPC) member

Kate Beswick Retiring as an Oxford health visitor, former head of health care at HMYOI Huntercombe, Oxfordshire and former Unite/ CPHVA National Professional Committee (NPC) member

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