Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 23 November 2023.
Karin Smyth
Shadow Minister (Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department holds data on the number of health visits carried out per local authority in each of the last five years.
Andrea Leadsom
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
Since 2015, when commissioning was moved to local authorities, the Department has annually published statistics on the number of mandatory visits delivering the Healthy Child Programme by health visitors. Health visitors also deliver non-mandated visits, but we do not routinely collect or publish these numbers.
Published data at local authority level for each financial year since 2016/17 is available at the following link:
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