Families lose health visits

By Helen Gilbert, Nursery World, 10 May 2007

An estimated half a million visits to families by health visitors are not happening due to savage cuts in debt-ridden Primary Care Trusts, the Amicus/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association has warned. The union claims one health visitor job is being lost every day and calculates that more than 500,000 visits are not made.

An estimated half a million visits to families by health visitors are not happening due to savage cuts in debt-ridden Primary Care Trusts, the Amicus/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association has warned. The union claims one health visitor job is being lost every day and calculates...

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