Health Services: Norfolk and Suffolk
(asked on 14th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of beneficiaries in i) Suffolk and ii) Norfolk of Healthy Child Services over the last 3 years.
The Healthy Child Programme is a universal, community-based public health service for children and families. Health visitors provide the zero to five offer for the programme, referred to as Healthy Child Services in Norfolk, supporting families with preventative care including screening, immunisation, infant feeding, and safeguarding.
Over the last three years for which complete data has been collected, there have been a total of 81,113 health visiting contacts completed in Norfolk and 80,527 completed in Suffolk. The following table shows a breakdown of these figures:
Year | Antenatal Contacts | New Birth Visits | 6 to 8 Week Reviews | 12 Month Reviews | 2 to 2 ½ Year Reviews | |
Norfolk | 2024-2025 | 4,313 | 6,897 | 5,996 | 6,758 | 5,757 |
2023-2024 | 5,526 | 7,028 | 4,903 | 7,095 | 2,197 | |
2022-2023 | 4,839 | 7,347 | 5,524 | 4,584 | 2,349 | |
Total | 14,678 | 21,272 | 16,423 | 18,437 | 10,303 | |
Suffolk | 2024-2025 | 2,932 | 6,027 | 6,010 | 6,198 | 6,402 |
2023-2024 | 2,675 | 5,954 | 5,875 | 6,194 | 5,914 | |
2022-2023 | 3,120 | 6,203 | 6,125 | 5,314 | 5,584 | |
Total | 8,727 | 18,184 | 18,010 | 17,706 | 17,900 |
Note: data was collected from 1 April to 31 March of the following year.