Abstract
This article explains the urgent need for change in health visitor education, due to an ageing and reducing workforce, increased needs and multiple demands for health visiting skills across health, social and educational services. This could herald a potentially exciting future for the profession, with a multidisciplinary workforce educated to operate across sectors and in a range of roles. Clear and demanding new educational standards have been established. If, in addition to a post-registration route, these could be obtained by direct entry students through a three-year degree or a two-year post-graduate qualification in health visting, this would enhance recruitment, increase multidisciplinarity and enable health visiting to contribute fully to the new aganda. These positive developments are being prevented by constraints within the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, which does not allow the regulation of health visiting as a profession in its own right
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 418 - 422 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Community Practitioner |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |