Policy paper

Health visiting return to practice and recruitment drive

These documents outline the recruitment offer, and provide answers to frequently asked questions for NHS employers.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Download Health visitor recruitment drive return to practice offer

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Download Health visitor return to practice FAQs for employers

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Details

The Health Visitor Implementation Plan published in February 2011, set out a call to action to expand and strengthen health visiting services. The plan includes the commitment to employ an extra 4,200 health visitors and on 30th March 2011 Anne Milton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Public Health, announced the start of a recruitment drive to help achieve this.

Published 30 March 2011