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Pushy health care worker

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TheUmpire · 22/11/2021 11:20

Not sure this is in the right section, but has anyone else had difficulty with a pushy health care worker? Our first child was seen by a health care worker a couple of times, asking daft 'tick box' questions (like "can your one-month-old sit up?") and being of no actual use, so cancelled all visits thereafter. There seemed to be no problem with this. I did think about cancelling this new one even before our first appointment - but didn't because child two has CF and needs to be weighed each week. As expected, though, the health worker added nothing beyond this, so I got my own hospital grade scales and cancelled her appointments. She has just turned up at the door, though, insisting over the intercom that she knows the make of the scales, which I told her, and then she started saying she needed to come in anyway. I told her in no uncertain terms no, and cut off the intercom. What happens now?

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FortunesFave · 22/11/2021 12:46

She might escalate it because of the CF I suppose. I sacked the one I had for DD2 for similar reasons...well, she was a bit of a twat!

I think I'd have let her in this time and just told her I'd be fine from now on in.

She might do nothing...she might report you and social services will come. If they do just tell them you feel confident without her.

TheUmpire · 22/11/2021 14:02

"social services will come"

Great, I'll point out how she was unable to answer a single question I posed her last time she came, how she failed to adequately weigh our baby, how she failed to ring when asked, and how she spent her time not once checking over the baby but instead banging on about her own life.

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Mattieandmummy · 22/11/2021 18:42

I had a similar thing with our DD, in the end we had to very firmly tell multiple heath visitors we didn't need anymore help (interference) from them thank you.

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