Investing in health visitors, and the support they can provide right at the beginning of a lifetime, is one of the broad public health interventions which I think can pay off massively for the NHS over time.

We should be better at it.

1965:

“and calmly she answered all my questions ... she certainly saved me from sleepless nights”

So much good, preventative, health care (including helping to establish good sleep habits early!) can be, and is, delivered by health visitors

RCPCH RCPCH President