In Havering, Essex, nursery nurses are running group health visits for one-year-olds, and newborns are not being seen by health visitors until they are almost four months old, according to Unite.
Cheryll Adams, lead professional officer at Unite/CPHVA, the union for community practitioners and health visitors, said, 'In terms of basic observations such as walking, it's okay. But there isn't enough time spent on each child and the parents don't have the privacy to raise sensitive subjects.'
Unite professional officer Dave Munday said that while group visits do provide a service, nursery nurses are being asked to do work for which they are untrained and unqualified.
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