The HCWP includes contacts from the antenatal period to age 7 as listed below:
•Health Visitor Antenatal contact
•Physical examination within 72 hours after birth
•Neonatal hearing screening (currently recorded in a stand-alone module)
•Blood Spot Screening (currently recorded in a stand-alone system)
•Contact at 10-14 days
•Physical examination at 6 -8 weeks
•Weight and measurement at 8 weeks
•Weight and measurement at 12 weeks
•Weight and measurement at 16 weeks
•Contact at 6 months
•Health visitor contact at 15 months
•Health visitor contact at 27 months
•Contact at 3.5 years pre-school
•Reception School Nurse screening
There will be no change to current arrangements where information is already recorded e.g. neonatal hearing screening, blood spot screening, child measurement programme at reception age or information covering immunisations and infant feeding.
For the first two contacts (antenatal and 72 hours) there is currently no national routinely reported information.
There is minimal change to the data requirements within the HCWP. As the aim of the programme is to standardise the contacts themselves, none of the data items included in the programme have been reviewed prior to implementation and these definitions will remain as they are.