The union claims one health visitor job is being lost every day and calculates that more than 500,000 visits are not made.
It follows NHS Workforce statistics, published last week, which showed a 4.5 per cent drop in the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) health visitors on the previous year.
The figures revealed there were 9,376 FTE health visitors in September 2006 compared with 9,809 in September 2005 - a loss of 433 FTE jobs.
Amicus health sector lead professional officer Dr Cheryll Adams described the situation as appalling and completely Tat odds with the Government's public health and family agendas'.
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