Research and analysis

Evaluation of Family Nurse Partnership programme

Three reports that provide the results of further evaluative studies of the Family Nurse Partnership programme.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 23 August 2012

This publication was withdrawn on 18 July 2024

This research is no longer current. For more recent research on the FNP programme, see: Family Nurse Partnership programme.

Documents

[Withdrawn] Summary of the formative evaluation of the first phase of the group-based FNP programme

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[Withdrawn] Eligibility criteria for the FNP: testing new criteria

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[Withdrawn] Issues emerging from the first 10 pilot sites implementing the FNP home-visiting programme in England

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Details

These 3 independent reports cover the themes of programme eligibility, emerging issues and development of the group-based Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme.

The studies were carried out by the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues at Birkbeck, University of London.

‘Summary of the formative evaluation of the first phase of the group-based FNP programme’ is a variant of the FNP programme for women in a group setting combined with maternity care, undertaken in 2 places commencing in 2009 and completed in 2011. The evaluation focused on acceptability to participants and family nurse facilitators, practical issues, and indications of impact on child and maternal health and parenting behaviours.

‘Eligibility criteria for the FNP: testing new criteria’ explores the issues relating to alternative eligibility criteria for vulnerable older first-time mothers aged 20 to 22, and first-time mothers aged 19 and under with additional vulnerabilities. This work also looked at the delivery of FNP through an interpreter.

‘Issues emerging from the first 10 pilot sites implementing the FNP home-visiting programme in England’ builds on those previously published, and identifies national and local system contributions to effective delivery of FNP, the emerging expertise of FNP practitioners, and the influence of FNP practice on universal service provision.

Published 23 August 2012