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Health visiting: a profession in transition.

Cheryll Adams¹

¹Strategy and Practice Development Unite/Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association London.

The Journal of Family Health Care

|December 4, 2009

Summary

Health visiting services in England have seen significant reductions in staff numbers over the past four years. This decline has negatively impacted children and families, necessitating urgent action to revitalize the profession.

Area of Science:

Public Health
Nursing
Social Policy

Background:

Health visiting is a vital public health service celebrating 150 years in 2012.
Recent years have seen a disturbing reduction in health visitor numbers in England.
These reductions pose a significant threat to services for children and families.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the causes and scale of health visitor number reductions in England.
To highlight the impact of these reductions on child and family services.
To discuss strategies for re-energizing health visiting and outline expected outcomes of the Department of Health's "Action on Health Visiting" programme.

Main Methods:

Literature review of circumstances leading to reductions.
Analysis of the scale of staff number decreases.

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Discussion of policy implications and proposed actions.

Main Results:

Significant reduction in health visitor numbers over the past four years.
Considerable negative impact on services for children and families.
Identification of necessary actions to revitalize the health visiting workforce.

Conclusions:

Urgent intervention is required to address the decline in health visiting.
The "Action on Health Visiting" programme aims to provide a strategic response.
Re-energizing health visiting is crucial for safeguarding child and family wellbeing.