Oct. 20 2011
Source Page: Educating health visitors for a transformed service. 14 p.Found: Educating health visitors for a transformed service. 14 p.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to (a) tackle shortages of health visitors and (b) help ensure that they are resourced to support parents of children with mental health challenges.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
In 2023/24, local authorities in England received £3.53 billion from the Government to fund public health services. This includes health visits and school nurse services for delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, through the Public Health Grant. As a part of the programme, health visitors undertake holistic assessments in partnership with families, which includes assessment of maternal mental health and infant mental health needs. These assessments cover the parents’ capacity to meet their infant’s needs, the impact and influence of wider family and community, and environmental circumstances. Working with families, health visitors identify the most appropriate level of support and intervention. This includes resources for health visitors to use in supporting families with mental health challenges experienced by both children and parents. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan aims for an increase in health visitor training places by 17% by 2028 and by 73% by 2031. The programmes schedule of interventions is available at the following link:
https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/pathways-healthy-child/
Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department holds data on the number of health visits carried out per local authority in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Since 2015, when commissioning was moved to local authorities, the Department has annually published statistics on the number of mandatory visits delivering the Healthy Child Programme by health visitors. Health visitors also deliver non-mandated visits, but we do not routinely collect or publish these numbers.
Published data at local authority level for each financial year since 2016/17 is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery
Mar. 29 2010
Source Page: Tables showing NHS hospital and community health services health visitors in England by Strategic Health Authority as at 30 Sept from 2002 to 20098. 8 p.Found: Tables showing NHS hospital and community health services health visitors in England by Strategic Health
Oct. 15 2009
Source Page: Tables showing NHS hospital and community health services health visitors in England by Strategic Health Authority as at 30 Sept from 2004 to 2008. 2 p.Found: Tables showing NHS hospital and community health services health visitors in England by Strategic Health
Asked by: Baroness Wyld (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many home visits from (1) midwives, and (2) health visitors, women currently receive after childbirth.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The health visiting service offer is universal to all families, and is underpinned by the national Healthy Child Programme. This offer begins with the antenatal contact and continues until school entry at five years old. There are five mandated universal contacts for health visiting which include: antenatal review; new birth visit; six to eight week review; one year review; and two to two-and-a-half year review. More targeted support, comprising of additional contacts above the mandated number, are delivered depending on assessment of individual family needs. Mandated health visitor reviews should be held face to face, although there may be local variations and blended approaches used. The health visiting service is delivered in a range of settings including families’ own homes, local community, or primary care settings.
Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health visitors have worked in the NHS on average in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is based on the monthly National Health Service workforce statistics published by NHS England available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics
The data includes staff employed by NHS trusts and other core NHS organisations and will therefore exclude staff directly employed by primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers such as community interest companies and private providers.
Local authorities have been responsible for commissioning health visiting services since 2015. These services may be commissioned from NHS trusts as well as other providers.
We do not hold staffing information for non-NHS providers.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health visitors are employed by the NHS; and how many were employed on 1 September 2010.
Answered by Will Quince
The number of health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and other core organisations in England is published monthly by NHS England as part of their NHS Workforce Statistics Collection. The data can be found in the nurses by setting table at the following link:
The data includes staff employed by NHS trusts and commissioning bodies, but excludes staff directly employed by primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers such as community interest companies and private providers.
Local authorities have been responsible for commissioning health visiting services since 2015. These services may be commissioned from NHS trusts as well as other providers.
Feb. 20 2012
Source Page: Table showing how many health visitors there were in each health authority area and by organisation in terms of (i) headcount and (ii) full-time equivalent staff, as at 30 September 2010. 4 p.Found: Table showing how many health visitors there were in each health authority area and by organisation in
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the total number of visits by health visitors that took place in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Will Quince
Since 2015, when commissioning was moved to local authorities, the Department has annually published statistics on the number of mandatory visits delivering the Healthy Child Programme by Health Visitors. Data on additional visits is only available for 2019/20. Visit statistics are not available prior to 2015. The information is shown in the attached table.