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Health visitor numbers fall

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  • Wednesday, October 5, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The health visitors' union Unite has called for the Government to ring-fence health visitor budgets to combat the drop in the number of health visitors.

MMR vaccine take-up in children below WHO target

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  • Friday, September 30, 2011
  • | Nursery World
New figures from the NHS reveal that despite an increase in the number of children being immunised against MMR, the rate of vaccination still falls below the World Health Organisation's target.

School lunches will cost parents more

    News
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The cost of school meals is to rise as much as by two-thirds in some areas of the country at the start of the new term, a new survey has found.

Underweight babies face greater risk of cot death

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  • Thursday, August 18, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Parents of underweight babies should be given more advice on how to reduce the risk of cot death after new figures reveal they are the most at risk, urges the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID).

Risk to babies' health from too much salty food

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  • Monday, August 1, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Nearly three-quarters of babies have higher than recommended salt levels because they are fed a diet of salty processed foods such as gravy, baked beans and tinned spaghetti, a new study warns.

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