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967470

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what training health visitors receive to enable them to identify incipient and actual cases of ante-natal depression, post-natal depression, and other maternal mental health issues.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
	uin	HL9964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Health visitors are part of the nursing profession and regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Health visitors are qualified and registered nurses or midwives who have undertaken an approved training programme in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - Health Visiting.</p><p>The NMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and coordinating all stages of education to ensure that health visitors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice, including continuous professional development (CPD). The NMC set the standards of education and training for the nursing profession expected at undergraduate and postgraduate level and approve curricula set by individual higher education institutes. In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that both postgraduate and undergraduate nurses must be able to demonstrate.</p><p>CPD is a term used to describe a number of different training and development activities which may be required for the purposes of professional practice in the National Health Service. The NMC requires 35 hours of CPD relevant to scope of practice in the three year period since registration was last renewed, or joining the register.</p><p>The NMC are in the process of rewriting their standards. For example, in the new pre-registration nursing standards the NMC specify that registrants must have proficiencies in identifying risk and vulnerability, in all settings and across the lifespan and would expect post-natal depression to be included in the curriculum.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL9965 question first answered 17/09/2018 13:50:13 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

967472

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what continuous professional development health visitors are required to undertake to enable them to identify incipient and actual cases of ante-natal depression, post-natal depression, and other maternal mental health issues.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
	uin	HL9965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Health visitors are part of the nursing profession and regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Health visitors are qualified and registered nurses or midwives who have undertaken an approved training programme in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - Health Visiting.</p><p>The NMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and coordinating all stages of education to ensure that health visitors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice, including continuous professional development (CPD). The NMC set the standards of education and training for the nursing profession expected at undergraduate and postgraduate level and approve curricula set by individual higher education institutes. In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that both postgraduate and undergraduate nurses must be able to demonstrate.</p><p>CPD is a term used to describe a number of different training and development activities which may be required for the purposes of professional practice in the National Health Service. The NMC requires 35 hours of CPD relevant to scope of practice in the three year period since registration was last renewed, or joining the register.</p><p>The NMC are in the process of rewriting their standards. For example, in the new pre-registration nursing standards the NMC specify that registrants must have proficiencies in identifying risk and vulnerability, in all settings and across the lifespan and would expect post-natal depression to be included in the curriculum.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL9964 question first answered 17/09/2018 13:50:13 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1139449

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has in place to tackle the variation in the (a) quality of health visiting services and (b) delivery of the Health Child Programme among local authorities in England.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	277600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants children to get the best start in life, recognising the lasting impact this has on health outcomes and life chances. The Department is working in partnership with Public Health England, the National Health Service and Local Government Association to modernise the Healthy Child Programme, with an initial focus on the first 1,001 days and early years, to improve a range of childhood outcomes including early development and school readiness. Health visitors, with other professionals, have an essential role supporting babies and their families.</p><p>The Interim People Plan, published in June, sets out the vision for people who work in the NHS to enable them to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan. Within this are specific plans for supporting community nurses, through growing pre-registration clinical placement capacity, a clear emphasis on high-quality learning experiences being provided within community settings. There is also a clear commitment to work with partners to identify how to support growth in the community workforce including district nursing, general practice nursing, health visitors and school nursing.</p><p>A Specialist Community and Public Health Nurse apprenticeship (Level 7) is currently in development. This will offer an alternative route directly into the health visiting profession. There are also nursing apprenticeship pathways currently in place to become a Registered Nurse, following which an individual has the option to choose to complete a postgraduate course to go onto qualify as a health visitor.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 277601 277602 question first answered 25/07/2019 10:01:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1139450

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the deficit in trained health visitors.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	277601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants children to get the best start in life, recognising the lasting impact this has on health outcomes and life chances. The Department is working in partnership with Public Health England, the National Health Service and Local Government Association to modernise the Healthy Child Programme, with an initial focus on the first 1,001 days and early years, to improve a range of childhood outcomes including early development and school readiness. Health visitors, with other professionals, have an essential role supporting babies and their families.</p><p>The Interim People Plan, published in June, sets out the vision for people who work in the NHS to enable them to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan. Within this are specific plans for supporting community nurses, through growing pre-registration clinical placement capacity, a clear emphasis on high-quality learning experiences being provided within community settings. There is also a clear commitment to work with partners to identify how to support growth in the community workforce including district nursing, general practice nursing, health visitors and school nursing.</p><p>A Specialist Community and Public Health Nurse apprenticeship (Level 7) is currently in development. This will offer an alternative route directly into the health visiting profession. There are also nursing apprenticeship pathways currently in place to become a Registered Nurse, following which an individual has the option to choose to complete a postgraduate course to go onto qualify as a health visitor.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 277600 277602 question first answered 25/07/2019 10:01:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1139451

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to measure the adequacy of the health visitor workforce to implement the Healthy Child Programme.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	277602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants children to get the best start in life, recognising the lasting impact this has on health outcomes and life chances. The Department is working in partnership with Public Health England, the National Health Service and Local Government Association to modernise the Healthy Child Programme, with an initial focus on the first 1,001 days and early years, to improve a range of childhood outcomes including early development and school readiness. Health visitors, with other professionals, have an essential role supporting babies and their families.</p><p>The Interim People Plan, published in June, sets out the vision for people who work in the NHS to enable them to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan. Within this are specific plans for supporting community nurses, through growing pre-registration clinical placement capacity, a clear emphasis on high-quality learning experiences being provided within community settings. There is also a clear commitment to work with partners to identify how to support growth in the community workforce including district nursing, general practice nursing, health visitors and school nursing.</p><p>A Specialist Community and Public Health Nurse apprenticeship (Level 7) is currently in development. This will offer an alternative route directly into the health visiting profession. There are also nursing apprenticeship pathways currently in place to become a Registered Nurse, following which an individual has the option to choose to complete a postgraduate course to go onto qualify as a health visitor.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 277600 277601 question first answered 25/07/2019 10:01:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1105877

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of eligible new parents received the recommended health visitor visits at (a) 28 weeks of pregnancy, (b) between ten days and two weeks after birth, (c) between six and eight weeks after birth, (d) between nine months and one year after birth and (e) between two years and two and a half years after birth, in each region of the UK, in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	238392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of recommended health visitor visits carried out in the United Kingdom are not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The health visitor service delivery metrics currently cover the antenatal contact, new birth visit, the six-eight week review, the 12-month review and the two-two and half year review and can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery-metrics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery-metrics</a></p><p> </p><p>The metrics do not indicate whether parents already have a child or are new parents.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 238393 question first answered 02/04/2019 16:12:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1105878

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of eligible parents of a second or subsequent child received the recommended health visitor visits at (a) 28 weeks of pregnancy, (b) between ten days and two weeks after birth, (c) between six and eight weeks after birth, (d) between nine months and one year after birth and (e) between two years and two and a half years after birth, in each region of the UK, in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	238393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of recommended health visitor visits carried out in the United Kingdom are not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The health visitor service delivery metrics currently cover the antenatal contact, new birth visit, the six-eight week review, the 12-month review and the two-two and half year review and can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery-metrics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery-metrics</a></p><p> </p><p>The metrics do not indicate whether parents already have a child or are new parents.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 238392 question first answered 02/04/2019 16:12:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

823676

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of health visitors.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	123130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Health visiting services have been developed to improve health outcomes for children and families and reduce inequalities. Since October 2015 local authorities have been responsible for the commissioning of these services for zero to five year olds and, as such, they determine the required numbers of health visitors to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>Over 800 new training places were made available in 2016/17 to continue to develop the health visitor workforce.</p><p> </p><p>We no longer hold data centrally on the number of health visitor posts there are in England, or the number of vacancies.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 123131 question first answered 24/01/2018 16:42:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

823677

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many health visitor positions there are in England; and how many of those positions are vacant.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	123131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Health visiting services have been developed to improve health outcomes for children and families and reduce inequalities. Since October 2015 local authorities have been responsible for the commissioning of these services for zero to five year olds and, as such, they determine the required numbers of health visitors to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>Over 800 new training places were made available in 2016/17 to continue to develop the health visitor workforce.</p><p> </p><p>We no longer hold data centrally on the number of health visitor posts there are in England, or the number of vacancies.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 123130 question first answered 24/01/2018 16:42:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

967469

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many visits from a health visitor a new mother in England should receive in the three months after giving birth; what is the length of each visit; and how these visits are monitored.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
	uin	HL9963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Health visitors undertake five mandated visits between the ages of zero to five. Three of these mandated visits occur during the first three months after birth which are the antenatal health visit, new baby review and six to eight-week assessment. The length of each visit will be entirely dependent on the individual needs of the mother and baby. Some families will require additional visits and support, the health visitor will use their professional judgement and public health expertise to determine need and support. Local authorities are responsible for commissioning health visiting services, local monitoring of service delivery and commissioning compliance should be undertaken locally as part of contract management.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 17/09/2018 13:56:16 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger