health visitor service

Any of the community health services provided by health visitors, the purpose of which is health promotion, illness prevention and health surveillance.

Clients served
Women (prenatal and postpartum), pre-school and schoolchildren, young adults, the middle aged and elderly, and people with specific diseases.

Services provided
Structured programmes—e.g., child development surveillance, immunisation, health promotion, contact-tracing for infections, and various ancillary services (e.g., infant feeding advice).

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This includes the contract for the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme, incorporating the health visitor service.

How cuts hit the health of young

In order to achieve cohesive service delivery the Council is looking to engage 1 provider to deliver 0-5 Health Visitor Service and the 5-19 School Nursing Service.

Health Visitor and School Nursing Service

It is recommended in the Healthy Child Programme (Department of Health, 2009) and also in the national 2015-2016 Health Visitor Service Specification (NHS England, 2014).

The Tameside and Glossop early attachment service: meeting the emotional needs of parents and their babies

The city is also benefitting from the expansion of the Flying Start scheme that aims to give children the right start in life by providing eligible parents free quality childcare for children under the age of four, parenting support, an enhanced health visitor service and help with their children's early language development.

Poorest parts of capital to get PS5.9m cash injection

Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty Vaughan Gething said that the PS279m expansion of Flying Start offers eligible parents free quality childcare for children under the age of four, parenting support, an enhanced health visitor service and help with early language development.

Plaid: We'll spend PS300m to give all equal start in life; 'Early years focus will boost economy'

He said 23,000 children living in Wales' most deprived communities are benefiting from the scheme, which offers eligible parents free childcare for children under the age of four, parenting support and an enhanced health visitor service.

Parents pay more for childcare than their mortgage, says report

He said there were no signs of staffing difficulties and strain in the midwife service, the health visitor service and the GP practice involved.

NO MORE LIKE BABY ALEXIS; Health workers take action

Abigail said: "It has only been a few weeks since we first went to the health visitor service, but already we are starting to see a real improvement through applying the techniques that Satnam recommended.

HEALTH VISITOR DRIVE TO BOOST NUMBERS

We need a universal health visitor service so that all parents can have the support they want and need and children's wellbeing can be safeguarded.

City's health visitor expos; CHILD CARE: Ratio is worst anywhere outside London

It is not appropriate to discuss the British Health Visitor Service in this paper, but certainly there was no comparable universal home visiting service for mothers and children up to five years in the U.

School health services in the United States: a view for the United Kingdom

Contract award: Leeds Early Start Service Incorporating: The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) and (0-5) Health Visitor Service (HV).

Health and social work services

Antenatal caseloads on electronic records should be separated into three groups of 'universal', 'universal partnership' and 'universal partnership plus' to reflect the level of health visitor service required following health needs assessment.

Antenatal young parents: introducing a pathway to enhance health visiting practice