Parenting Rep - help needed!!

[susanmt]

I'm sure some of you will know I was asked to be parenting rep on our surgery patient group after I complained about our health visitor (an if you didn't and are interested it is on the thread 'I'm NOT a Gina Mum, but for those of you who are ....'.
Well - two things!
(1) The health visitor has resigned!! She is moving to be near her family. So they are looking for a new one
(2) Because they are looking for a new one they have decided to review the service. My remit is to find out what parents want from a health visitor. Mainly, I want to be left alone by the HV, so I'm not a good person to ask!!. I am going to do a lot of chatting at the playgroup and toddler group, as almost all the mums there are part of our practice (we are in a rural area), but I wondered if, through your great expertise and wisdom you could think of some good ideas - I'd like to spark off discussion and see if we could get what parents really want from a health visiting service. They are going to use any good ideas to write the job description!
Thanks for the help!!

Just back from my practice patient group meeting.
It was great, and they were very interested in the ideas I had from you lot and the local mums about the role of the HV. It turns out that it is a bit of a political football - there are supposed to be about double the number of HVs in our area than there are, but the money has been sidelined to pay for things in the hospital. They are trying to get the money back to support people in the community, but this is very controversial!
Will keep you posted!

It sounds very positive, Susan, and now they know you're on their track regarding the money, they'll have to hand it back, won't they??