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This week's columnist Robin Balbernie warns that we will lose health visitors at our peril So it is now official that the Government has been cutting back on the numbers of training places for health visitors. Ask around in any area of the country and you will probably find that their health visitor complement is below what it was several years ago.

So it is now official that the Government has been cutting back on the numbers of training places for health visitors. Ask around in any area of the country and you will probably find that their health visitor complement is below what it was several years ago.

The current money-saving dodge is to augment depleted health visitor teams with nursery nurses. Nursery nurses do an excellent job and the extra talents that they bring to helping some stressed families are welcome. But by no stretch of the imagination can they replace the hard-won and specialist skills of a health visitor.

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