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health visitor
noun
- (in Britain) a nurse employed by a district health authority to visit people in their homes and give help and advice on health and social welfare, esp to mothers of preschool children, to the handicapped, and to elderly people
Example Sentences
"I took some photos of the house and I was so nervous, I was shaking, but I showed the leader of a baby group I went to, who got in touch with a health visitor who referred me to the charity Dora Brown," the 37-year-old says.
She then made a middle-of-the-night call to her health visitor who, fortunately, picked up and agreed to come round.
She said her health visitor and a therapist wrote to the council supporting her need for extra help.
"I had a number to ring if there was an emergency, which didn’t work. We had no health visitor and no midwives. Our first visitor was a friend who walked four hours across London to sit in our garden."
The last home visit by a health visitor was on 15 February 2020, five-and-a-half months before her murder.
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