PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Visitors (15 November 2023)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department holds data on the number of health visits carried out per local authority in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Answer
Since 2015, when commissioning was moved to local authorities, the Department has annually published statistics on the number of mandatory visits delivering the Healthy Child Programme by health visitors. Health visitors also deliver non-mandated visits, but we do not routinely collect or publish these numbers.
Published data at local authority level for each financial year since 2016/17 is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery
Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
23 November 2023
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