Universal Health Visiting Pathway in Scotland: pre-birth to pre-school
The Pathway sets out the minimum core home visiting programme to be offered to all families by Health Visitors.
Footnotes
1. See the link for The Scottish Government publication of ‘A New Look at Hall 4’
2. See the link for the ‘Why Health Visiting?’ narrative literature review
3. See link to a letter from Scottish Government outlining the future of public health nursing services
4. Grandparents, step-parents, kinship carers, foster and adoptive parents, ‘corporate parents’ of children looked after by the state, extended families, networks and communities – each has an important role to play in the care and upbringing of children and young people (Scottish Government, 2012).
5. See link for ‘Why Health Visiting?’ National Institute of Nursing Research report
6. UNICEF (2014) Having meaningful conversations with mothers. A guide to using the baby friendly signature sheets page 12.
7. Should be given once an informed decision about feeding choice has been made – usually on discharge from hospital. The leaflet should also be given if formula feeding replaces breastfeeding or mixed feeding is the method of choice – could be any time in the first 6 months breastfeeding or mixed feeding is the method of choice – could be any time in the first 6 months
Contact
Email: Liam.cahill@gov.scot