Health visiting: a profession in transition.
Health visiting will celebrate its 150th birthday in 2012. This paper reviews circumstances leading to the highly disturbing reduction in health visitor numbers in England over the past four years and the scale of the reductions. It highlights the considerable impact of these reductions on services for children and families. Finally it discusses what must be done to re-energise health visiting and what actions are expected to result from the "Action on Health Visiting" programme led by the Department of Health.
Adams
Cheryll
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Strategy and Practice Development Unite/Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association London.
D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D013222:State Medicine