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Karen Stansfield: The future of health visiting is at risk

A downward trend  in the number of health visitor training places being taken up could be made much worse by the introduction next year of a complex and expensive apprenticeship route, warns the Institute of Health Visiting's Karen Stansfield.
Posted 03 November 2017 - 07:19
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