health visitor

noun

1. (in Britain) a nurse employed by a district health authority to visit people in their homes and give help and advice on health and social welfare, esp to mothers of preschool children, to the handicapped, and to elderly people

Example Sentences

She said her health visitor and a therapist wrote to the council supporting her need for extra help.

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"I had a number to ring if there was an emergency, which didn’t work. We had no health visitor and no midwives. Our first visitor was a friend who walked four hours across London to sit in our garden."

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The last home visit by a health visitor was on 15 February 2020, five-and-a-half months before her murder.

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Welsh government guidance at the time stated health visitors should prioritise face-to-face contact for vulnerable families with safeguarding concerns, but the report said James's decision "was not challenged or probed" by the health visitor.

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Independent reviewer Emma Sutton concluded the health visitor could have taken "further steps to seek agreement for a home visit", calling it a "missed opportunity".

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