health visitor.
Kate Russell works as a health visitor for the Wembley Centre for Health & Care, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust. As a community public health nurse who works with families and children aged from birth to five, a health visitor sees newborn babies every week at home, as well as providing community and specialist services. Every family in the UK is entitled to have a health visitor.
Ms Russell says, 'My daily work is a mixture of visiting newborn babies in their homes, running health clinics, writing up medical notes and managing the provision of any additional support services a family might need.
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