Content area
Full Text
NHS ENGLAND
NHS ENGLAND HAS PUBLISHED A NATIONAL core health visiting service specification for 2015-16. The refreshed specification has a strengthened focus on the role of health visitors as leaders for improving health and wellbeing outcomes for young children and their families.
Supporting a safe and sustainable transfer to local authority commissioning of 0-5 public health services is a high priority. As well as extensive consultation with health visitor providers and existing commissioners, NHS England has involved the Local Government Association (LGA), in addition to directors of public health and directors of children's services. The commitment of future commissioners to NHS England's service specification covering April to September 2015 will increase the...