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Next government urged to invest in health visiting despite lack of manifesto pledges

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The three main political parties have been urged to invest in boosting support for health visiting ahead of the upcoming general election despite just one party mentioning the role in its manifesto.
Labour was the only one out of the three main parties that mentioned health visiting in its manifesto. Picture: Adobe Stock/ Highwaystarz
Labour was the only one out of the three main parties that mentioned health visiting in its manifesto. Picture: Adobe Stock/ Highwaystarz

The NSPCC has been at the forefront of calls to increase the provision of health visiting, asking the next government for 5,000 additional health visitors to be trained and employed in England over the first five years of the next parliament.

The charity also wants visits to new parents to be carried out in person so that children can be fully assessed in their home environment and calls for care to continue throughout childhood.

Labour has been the only one of the three main parties to mention health visiting in its manifesto, stating it will deliver on the NHS workforce plan to train more health visitors and “allow health visitors to administer routine immunisations to vulnerable and at-risk children”.

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