FNP Adapt: Improving an Intensive Home Visiting Programme
The Family Nurse Partnership is adapting its home visiting parenting programme to enable their highly trained Family Nurses to deliver a more personalised programme to their clients, who are first time young mothers. FNP site have also designed changes to the programme’s clinical content that is also being tested.
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The need
Due to a changing external environment, and the results of the first randomised controlled trial of FNP in the UK, the FNP National Unit embarked on a brave and ambitious project to adapt the programme.
Our response
The ADAPT programme designs, tests, and adapts strategic and clinical changes to the programme in over 20 of FNP’s delivery sites in England. We have worked with the National Unit to co-design an approach that is based in scientific evidence and informed by the views of clients, family nurses and programme commissioners. This has been tested using rapid cycle design and testing methods since Spring 2016.
The work is commissioned and funded by the FNP National Unit and part supported by A Better Start, which is a project of the National Lottery Community Fund.
