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More health visitors needed

Up to 4,000 more full-time health visitors are needed across England to provide intensive support for 120,000 vulnerable families, says a leading trade union.

Unite/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association calculatedthe figure in response to the Department of Health's review of healthvisiting, Facing the future, published this summer.

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