Opinion: In my View - Save the health visitors

But this 145-year-old tradition of community nursing is facing a bleak time, with job losses, recruitment freezes and cuts to training places for future health visitors. But according to government policies since 1997, this crisis in health visiting should not be happening. Not since the Attlee government of 1945 have ministers announced such an array of family-orientated social welfare initiatives. Billions more in real terms has been poured into the NHS over the past decade. Yet research from Unite/Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors'...