Results of the Institute of Health Visiting’s (iHV) annual survey for 2017 have found that a third of health visitors in England feel they are so stretched that there may be a tragedy in their area at some point.
This figure is up from 25 per cent in 2015, when responsibility for health visiting services in England moved from the NHS to local authorities.
The survey also showed more than one in five (21 per cent) of the 1,400 health visitors surveyed have current caseloads of over 500 children. In 2015, just one in eight health visitors (12 per cent) reported working with more than 500 children.
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