HV numbers and caseload sizes

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Dear Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust,
Would you be so kind as to provide:
1. Health Visitor caseload numbers of children for
2006,2007,2008,2009.2010 and 2011.
(please provide average (mean) caseload size, median and range)

2. Numbers of Health Visitors /Public Health Nurse Practitioners at
grade 6 AfC
Numbers of Public Health Nurses at grade 5 AfC
Numbers of Nursery Nurses at grade 4 AfC
for the following years
2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011

Thanking you.

Yours faithfully,

PJBallinger

Lewisham Foi (LEWISHAM HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust

Dear Ms Ballinger

 

I am writing to you as it has come to our attention that your Freedom of
Information request, submitted to our organisation through
whatdotheyknow.com on 11 August 2011, has not yet been answered. Please
accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
We consider delays of this length to be unacceptable and have reviewed our
Freedom of Information processes to ensure this does not happen again. We
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Information Act.

 

You asked for the following information:

 

1. Health Visitor caseload numbers of children for
2006,2007,2008,2009.2010 and 2011. (please provide average (mean) caseload
size, median and range)

 

The Trust does not record caseload size by number of children. Health
visitor caseloads are recorded by family.

 

2. Numbers of Health Visitors /Public Health Nurse Practitioners at grade
6 AfC

Numbers of Public Health Nurses at grade 5 AfC

Numbers of Nursery Nurses at grade 4 AfC

for the following years

 

2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011

 

Information is only available for calendar years from 2010:

 

  2010 2011 2012
Grade 6 42.62 WTE 24.35 WTE 35.38 WTE
Grade 5 18.44 WTE 18.90 WTE 18.30 WTE
Grade 4 7.16 WTE 7.01 WTE 7.01 WTE

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Freedom of Information Office

Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust

 

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