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Abstract

As a nurse and health visitor my professional ethos — indeed duty — is to care for the patients for whom I am responsible. As a parent I care for my own children with very little input from the health service, in fact the service can do nothing with or for my child unless I allow it to. Perhaps the title of the chapter should be working with health services: but that would be another book altogether.

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  1. Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Michael Rigby

  2. Mary Sheridan Centre for Child Health, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, London, UK

    Euan M. Ross

  3. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, UK

    Norman T. Begg

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Saffin, K. (1998). Working with parents. In: Rigby, M., Ross, E.M., Begg, N.T. (eds) Management for Child Health Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3144-3_3

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