Health visitor service delivery: data for 2024 to 2025
Quarterly and annual data about health visits to pregnant women, children and their families during pregnancy and early childhood.
Applies to England
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Annual and quarterly data for health visitor service delivery metrics. Information is presented at local authority of residence, region and England level.
The metrics cover health reviews for pregnant women, children and their families at several stages which are:
- antenatal contact
- new birth visit
- 6 to 8 week review
- 12 month review
- 2 to 2 and a half year review
The data was collected through an interim reporting system, Children’s public health 0 to 5 years: national reporting, set up to collect health visiting activity data at a local authority resident level. Data is submitted by local authorities on a voluntary basis.
The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) will be used as the basis for these metrics in the longer term, once the data quality has reached a suitable quality.
Local authority commissioners and health professionals can use these resources to track how many pregnant women, children and families in their local area have received health promoting reviews at particular points during pregnancy and childhood.
Correction notice
Since publication in November 2025, an error has been identified in the number of infants due a 6 to 8 week review in quarters 1 and 2 of the financial year 2024 to 2025 in Croydon.
This affects the percentage of 6 to 8 week reviews for Croydon, London and England, in quarters 1 and 2 and the financial year 2024 to 2025 - and the corresponding confidence intervals. The changes are:
- for Croydon, the percentage of 6 to 8 week reviews:
- from 85.0% to 82.4% for quarter 1
- from 91.7% to 84.9% for quarter 2
- from 87.3% to 85.0% annually
- for London, the percentage of 6 to 8 week reviews:
- from 80.2% to 80.0% for quarter 1
- from 83.7% to 83.4% for quarter 2
- from 82.9% to 82.8% annually
- for England, the percentage of 6 to 8 week reviews for quarter 2 from 85.1% to 85.0%
The data has been updated and reissued in the annual data tables on this page and in the Fingertips tool. These data tables supersede any previous published files.
Updates to this page
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Added a notice and updated data tables to reflect a correction to data for Croydon.
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Replaced provisional quarterly data with final quarterly and annual data for 2024 to 2025. This file supersedes any previously published files. Statistical commentary added.
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Added 'Data tables: health visitor service delivery metrics, April 2024 to March 2025, provisional'.
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First published.