Article: Mums and babies being left with NO HELP; NHS LOSING ONE HEALTH VISITOR A DAY INVESTIGATES: CHILDCARE SCANDAL.(News)

Article: New chair for HV forum.(NEWS)(Community Practitioners' and ...
Community Practitioner;  May 1, 2009 ;     697 words ... ... professional officer Maggie Fisher has been elected as the new Health Visitor (HV) Forum chair, replacing Christine Bidmead who recently ... is a privilege to work with such a group of experienced health visitors from across the country, and I hope to be able to facilitate ...

Article: Health visitor cuts affecting vulnerable families: ...
Community Practitioner;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... on the future shape of the role of health visitors and the services they provide. Caseloads ... a family. A significant number of health visitors said that this and the additional ... suggest that around a quarter of health visitors felt unable to offer parenting support ...

Article: Health visiting promise to protect children: the government has ...
Community Practitioner;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... recruitment and training of health visitors, health minister ... employment of 4000 more health visitors, but acknowledged ... record the numbers of health visitors per child, and has ... 250 children per health visitor. It will continue ...

Article: A seat at the front: available places on the Health ...
Community Practitioner;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... taken forward. My involvement on the Health Visitor Forum has been immensely rewarding ... incorporate the interests of the wider health visitor membership. I enjoy the full support ... educator, in addition to my work as a health visitor. It also provided opportunities to ...

Article: Register group throws out health visitor direct ...
Nursing Standard;  March 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... proposals to end the requirement that health visitors train as nurses first. The three ... community/public health nurses'. Health visitors would have their own subsection under ... the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association (CPHVA) are opposed ...

Article: Report details 'general failure' of health visitor ...
Community Practitioner;  March 1, 2002 ;     595 words ... ... provision and mainstream health visitors often coping with case ... the woman to access the health visitor ... ' Health visitors needed to use a `non ... met, Ms Amadi added, if health visitors had more autonomy in terms ...

Article: PND in primary care: The health visitor's ...
Community Practitioner;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... part of every health visitor's case-load. Health visitors have a pivotal ... develop the role of health visitors in managing PND ... now offered to health visitors using a programme ... delivered by health visitor and community ...