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Reply: #8482

I’m asking this because my Trust are saying that if mum has to cancel the offered 10 – 14 day visit and the named HV (who already knows the family and/or has done antenatal visit) cannot do it until day 15/16, then someone/anyone else MUST go and do the visit instead. I am protesting strongly because this visit is so important in terms of building/establishing your long-term trusting relationship. My concerns have been thoroughly dismissed; the box must be ticked by 14 days, sod the “relationship”. (If someone is on leave and cannot do their primary in reasonable time, someone else does have to do it BUT my colleagues and I always do the visit earlier than 10 days with a follow up when back from leave, or something like that, whenever possible, because we feel the relationship building is the most important thing.) The Healthy Child Programme says “around 14 days” on one page, and “by 14 days” on another, but no-where can I find out WHY.

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