Health visitor staffing

Regarding the clinical staff in your health visiting teams, on 1st February of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019:

1. How many whole time equivalent clinical staff (with caseloads) coded as health visitors, were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.

2019: 62.4 Full time Equivalent (FTE)  –  the service establishment number is 80FTE. We do not hold information on NHS pay bands.

2016-18      We do not hold this information, the provider organisation for that period is no longer the provider, and the contract was managed by NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) on behalf of Devon County Council.

We provided a response to a previous request on this subject in March 2019 which may help.

2. How many whole time equivalent clinical staff (with caseloads) who are NOT coded as health visitors were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.

We do not hold this information, the provider organisation for that period is no longer the provider, and the contract was managed by NEW Devon CCG on behalf of Devon County Council.

3. How many children under-5 years of age were there in your local authority area? (also on 1st February of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019)

Year Mid year estimate
2016 38,300
2017 37,700
2018 37,300
2019 We do not hold this information, it is due to be published in June 2020

4. Currently, who is the responsible manager for the health visiting service? Please also provide their email address.

Kate Stephens = kate.stephens@devon.gov.uk