At least one health visitor job is being lost every day according to Amicus and the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association.

The latest workforce statistics show a 4.5 per cent drop in the number of full-time equivalent health visitors in the year to September 2006. The union says the figures mean more than 500,000 visits by health visitors to families are not happening because of cuts by debt-ridden primary care trusts.

At least one health visitor job is being lost every day according to Amicus and the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association.

The latest workforce statistics show a 4.5 per cent drop in the number of full-time equivalent health visitors in the year to September 2006. The union says the figures mean more than 500,000 visits by health visitors to families are not happening because of cuts by debt-ridden primary care trusts.

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