{"id":25047,"date":"2012-08-29T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25047"},"modified":"2012-08-29T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:01:25","slug":"more-male-and-mixed-race-health-visitors-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25047","title":{"rendered":"More male and mixed-race health visitors wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\/nursing-practice\/clinical-zones\/district-and-community-nursing\/more-male-and-mixed-race-health-visitors-wanted\/5048260.article?blocktitle=Most-commented&amp;contentID=-1\" target=\"_blank\">More male and mixed-race health visitors wanted<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\" target=\"_blank\">Nursing Times<\/a><br \/>\nHarborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2012-08-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\/steve-ford\/1100005.bio\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Ford<\/a><\/strong>, Deputy News Editor<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health says it is seeking to attract more men and people from mixed ethnic backgrounds into health visiting, as part of the national recruitment drive.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming majority of health visitors are white, female and approaching retirement, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wp.dh.gov.uk\/publications\/files\/2012\/08\/Equality-Analysis-Health-Visiting-Programme-PDF-148K.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DH equality analysis of the health visiting workforce in England<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The research, published this week, is intended to inform the government\u2019s ongoing Health Visitor Implementation Plan. The national strategy was published in February 2011 and set the aim of boosting the health visitor workforce by an extra 4,200 by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2010, there were 9,995 female health visitors and only 101 males, meaning \u201capproximately 99% of health visitors\u201d were women, the DH analysis said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cWe are working with marketing colleagues to encourage nurses from mixed ethnic backgrounds to join the health visitor workforce,\u201d the report said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\/nursing-practice\/clinical-zones\/district-and-community-nursing\/more-male-and-mixed-race-health-visitors-wanted\/5048260.article?blocktitle=Most-commented&amp;contentID=-1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More male and mixed-race health visitors wanted Nursing Times Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom 2012-08-16 Steve Ford, Deputy News Editor The Department of Health says it is seeking to attract more men and people from mixed ethnic backgrounds into health visiting, as part of the national recruitment drive. The overwhelming majority of health visitors are white, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,4481,10],"tags":[11684,11685],"class_list":["post-25047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-uk","tag-nursing-times","tag-steve-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}