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Protests mount against swingeing cuts to children's health services

If Jeremy Hunt is as keen on preventative health care and 'care in the community' as he claims to be, why is his NHS slashing health visitors and school nurses?

By Malcolm Hancock
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Image: Unite members protest cuts to health visitors and school nurses

Health workers, campaigners and concerned families are protesting in Humber over the NHS Foundation Trust’s plans to slash health visitors and school nurses by 25 per cent, in a symptom of the growing public health crisis across England.

It seems a long time since the then prime minister David Cameron pledged 4,200 extra health visitors during the lifetime of the coalition government.

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