NHS England is working with the Department of Health to showcase some of our health visiting development work and the difference improved services are making to new parents and children.

Health visitors play a crucial role in ensuring children have the best possible start in life and provide a vital link between individual and community services, and between primary care and early years of a child’s life.

In March NHS England will continue to champion the work of health visitors, focusing on improvements in population coverage and health outcomes.

We are posting a series of blogs that highlight the vital work being carried out by health visitors around the country:

• Health Visitors are helping to tackle child obesity – Vicki Watson
• Revitalising health visiting services – Sabrina Fuller