A series of regional meetings on the future of health visiting by the Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association, a professional section of Unite, has revealed members’ fears that trusts are delaying the recruitment of extra health visitors.
Unite lead professional officer Obi Amadi said: "At these events, our members are telling us that some employers are dragging their feet over recruiting newly trained health visitors, even though extra funding has been made available by the Department of Health for this very purpose.
"This is not something that trusts can prevaricate on. Any trust we hear about that is being tardy in recruiting new health visitors, we are reporting to the department, which, in turn, is raising this with the relevant strategic health authorities and primary care trusts."
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