The Institute of Health Visiting has produced recommendations aimed at stabilising the effective contribution of the profession to child and family health - set within the context of the wider health and social care system and in a fragmented commissioning environment.
Health visiting has become practically invisible in the NHS landscape because its concern is children and their families.
The overwhelming concern of the NHS and wider health and social care system is on managing demand to cope with pressures in adult health services and managing falling budgets in social care for the elderly.
There needs to be an equivalent sense of collective urgency to focus on the health and wellbeing of children and families as a critical public health issue, and in doing so creating the environment for reduced spending on health needs in later life.
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