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registered interest
date	18/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors have been working in the NHS in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	71215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes information on the number of nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff employed in the National Health Service in England each month.</p><p> </p><p>The December data is the most recent data available. The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics – number of health visitors as at December 2012-16, full-time equivalent</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>December-2012</p></td><td><p>December-2013</p></td><td><p>December-2014</p></td><td><p>December-2015</p></td><td><p>December-2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7,986</p></td><td><p>8,553</p></td><td><p>9,639</p></td><td><p>10,212</p></td><td><p>9,278</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p><em>Note:</em> Health Visitors are employed by a range of organisations, including NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups, local authorities and private providers. Current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the health visitor workforce.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 26/04/2017 09:54:37 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

711474

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors were employed in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	68118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes information on the number of nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff employed in the National Health Service in England each month.</p><p> </p><p>As at September 2010, there were 7,849 full-time equivalent health visitors working in the NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 20/03/2017 17:07:31 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

687064

registered interest
date	08/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full time equivalent health visitors there were in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local authority in (i) May 2015 and (ii) the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	63586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Health visitors are employed by a range of organisations, including National Health Service trusts, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), local authorities and private providers. Current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the health visitor workforce.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital’s NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics capture the total number of health visitors directly employed in NHS trusts and CCGs in England and by Health Education England region.</p><p>NHS Digital used to collect data on health visitors employed by local authorities and other organisations through the Health Visitors National Minimum Dataset however this collection ceased at the end of September 2015.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 24/02/2017 10:11:59 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

687069

registered interest
date	08/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of children receive an assessment of their development by health visitors (a) after birth, (b) at six to eight weeks, (c) at one year old and (d) between two and two and a half years old in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	63578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>This information is not available in the requested format. Information available from the Health Visitors Service Delivery Metrics can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.chimat.org.uk/transfer" target="_blank">http://www.chimat.org.uk/transfer</a></p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 20/02/2017 11:57:31 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

683390

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his Department's policy that the mandation of health visiting services will continue after March 2017.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	62939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to achieving good health outcomes for children and young people. Local authorities are responsible for commissioning appropriate public health services for 0-5 year olds in their areas, including health visiting.</p><p> </p><p>Provision by local authorities of five universal health visitor reviews for children aged 0-5 was required by Regulations which came into force on 1 October 2015. The Department commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to undertake a review of the Regulations at 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>PHE has completed the review of the mandating of universal health visiting services. The review was informed by looking at existing national and local statistics on health visiting service delivery and health and wellbeing outcomes for young children. In addition, feedback from a number of different stakeholder perspectives, including health visitors, was sought.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s report is informing next steps decisions about the service and the Department expects to announce these shortly and to publish the report.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 62941 question first answered 09/02/2017 13:26:51 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

683392

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish Public Health England's review of the mandated health visiting service.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	62941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to achieving good health outcomes for children and young people. Local authorities are responsible for commissioning appropriate public health services for 0-5 year olds in their areas, including health visiting.</p><p> </p><p>Provision by local authorities of five universal health visitor reviews for children aged 0-5 was required by Regulations which came into force on 1 October 2015. The Department commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to undertake a review of the Regulations at 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>PHE has completed the review of the mandating of universal health visiting services. The review was informed by looking at existing national and local statistics on health visiting service delivery and health and wellbeing outcomes for young children. In addition, feedback from a number of different stakeholder perspectives, including health visitors, was sought.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s report is informing next steps decisions about the service and the Department expects to announce these shortly and to publish the report.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 62939 question first answered 09/02/2017 13:26:51 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes