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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

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

1028521

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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 information his Department holds on the number of health visitors (a) in England, (b) regionally and (c) in each local authority area in each year since September 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	203898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include only staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers. Some other organisations also provide health visiting services, so the data held by the Department only reflects part of the picture on overall health visitor numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) figures for health visitors for England and for each Health Education England region as at 30 September in the specified years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>8,100</p></td><td><p>7,849</p></td><td><p>7,802</p></td><td><p>7,687</p></td><td><p>8,304</p></td><td><p>9,162</p></td><td><p>10,236</p></td><td><p>9,521</p></td><td><p>8,497</p></td><td><p>7,884</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td><p>615</p></td><td><p>631</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>685</p></td><td><p>741</p></td><td><p>826</p></td><td><p>791</p></td><td><p>742</p></td><td><p>619</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>778</p></td><td><p>698</p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>594</p></td><td><p>668</p></td><td><p>777</p></td><td><p>744</p></td><td><p>663</p></td><td><p>628</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>553</p></td><td><p>518</p></td><td><p>507</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>550</p></td><td><p>671</p></td><td><p>635</p></td><td><p>562</p></td><td><p>519</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Central and East London</p></td><td><p>384</p></td><td><p>403</p></td><td><p>389</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>433</p></td><td><p>553</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>443</p></td><td><p>427</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>501</p></td><td><p>571</p></td><td><p>596</p></td><td><p>659</p></td><td><p>673</p></td><td><p>672</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1,386</p></td><td><p>1,329</p></td><td><p>1,317</p></td><td><p>1,414</p></td><td><p>1,463</p></td><td><p>1,602</p></td><td><p>1,793</p></td><td><p>1,733</p></td><td><p>1,674</p></td><td><p>1,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West London</p></td><td><p>298</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>351</p></td><td><p>425</p></td><td><p>470</p></td><td><p>511</p></td><td><p>506</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South London</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>434</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>334</p></td><td><p>388</p></td><td><p>458</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>366</p></td><td><p>328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>663</p></td><td><p>663</p></td><td><p>599</p></td><td><p>452</p></td><td><p>599</p></td><td><p>565</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td><p>412</p></td><td><p>370</p></td><td><p>312</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>307</p></td><td><p>348</p></td><td><p>336</p></td><td><p>347</p></td><td><p>389</p></td><td><p>364</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>323</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>394</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>554</p></td><td><p>514</p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>446</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>889</p></td><td><p>872</p></td><td><p>895</p></td><td><p>918</p></td><td><p>1,039</p></td><td><p>1,197</p></td><td><p>1,287</p></td><td><p>1,237</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>1,027</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>929</p></td><td><p>867</p></td><td><p>898</p></td><td><p>908</p></td><td><p>875</p></td><td><p>953</p></td><td><p>1,009</p></td><td><p>1,113</p></td><td><p>929</p></td><td><p>1,041</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital began to collect and publish data on staff, including health visitors, in some English independent sector healthcare organisations, from September 2015. These statistics are collected biannually and published as experimental statistics. The following table shows the FTE figures of health visitors employed by Independent Healthcare Providers in England who provide valid data, as at 30 September each year since 2015 and the latest data available:</p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>31 March 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>957</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>1,187</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Independent Healthcare Provider Workforce Statistics, England, March 2018, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Information is not held centrally on number of health visitors in each local authority area.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/01/2019 14:03:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1050212

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	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 health visitors were employed in (a) Wirral, (b) the Liverpool City Region and (c) England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	213243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include only staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers. Some other organisations also provide health visiting services, so the data held by the Department only reflects a section of the overall health visitor numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) figures for health visitors for England, Liverpool City Region and Wirral as at 30 September in the specified years and the latest data available:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>31 October 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>9,162</p></td><td><p>10,236</p></td><td><p>9,521</p></td><td><p>8,497</p></td><td><p>7,884</p></td><td><p>7,845</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool City Region</p></td><td><p>526</p></td><td><p>579</p></td><td><p>715</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>679</p></td><td><p>675</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wirral</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital began to collect and publish data on staff, including health visitors, in some English independent sector healthcare organisations, from September 2015. These statistics are collected biannually and published as experimental statistics. The following table shows the FTE figures of health visitors employed by independent healthcare providers in England who provide valid data, as at 30 September each year since 2015 and the latest data available:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>31 March 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>957</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>1,187</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Independent Healthcare Provider Workforce Statistics, England, March 2018, NHS Digital. Trends here may partly reflect which providers NHS Digital gets data from.</p><p> </p><p>Information is not held centrally on number of health visitors in each local authority area.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/02/2019 17:29:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1131658

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	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 assessment he has made about the effectiveness of delivery of Early Years and Health Visiting Services since the transfer of those services from NHS to local authority commissioning; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	263792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p>Following a review led by the Department, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has confirmed that local authorities will continue to commission sexual health, school nurses and health visitors. The review found that local authorities take an active and efficient approach to commissioning services and recognised the steps that local authorities have taken to improve and modernise the services they commission. The review recommended that the National Health Service work much more closely with local authorities on public health so that commissioning is more joined-up and prevention is embedded into a wider range of health services. The Department will be seeking views in the forthcoming Prevention Green Paper about how action can be taken forward.</p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the outcome at the Jephcott Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine on Thursday 6 June 2019.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/06/2019 10:34:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

861161

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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 estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) actual and (b) full time equivalent health visitors who have been employed in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	132310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes information on workforce statistics and the following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) and headcount (HC) figures for health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in each of the last seven years.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Health visitors in NHS trusts and CCGs in England as at 30 November each specified year (FTE and HC).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Health visitors (FTE)</p></td><td><p>Health visitors (HC)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010</p></td><td><p>7,961</p></td><td><p>9,884</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011</p></td><td><p>7,812</p></td><td><p>9,626</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012</p></td><td><p>7,963</p></td><td><p>9,647</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>8,526</p></td><td><p>10,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>9,629</p></td><td><p>11,407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>10,279</p></td><td><p>12,173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2016</p></td><td><p>9,376</p></td><td><p>11,142</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2017</p></td><td><p>8,317</p></td><td><p>9,995</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Source: Provisional NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/03/2018 11:59:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton