Healthy child programme: rapid review to update evidence - GOV.UK
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The ‘Healthy Child Programme’ (HCP) is the main universal health service for improving the health and wellbeing of children, through:
From 1 October 2015, local authorities will take over responsibility from NHS England for planning and paying for public health services for babies and children up to 5 years old. These
services include:
Public Health England commissioned a rapid review of new evidence to:
Over the coming months, PHE will be publishing tailored briefings for health visitors and local authorities as a supplement to the rapid review paper.
Appendices providing details of the search and review process, data extraction tables for systematic reviews and primary studies will be made available in due course.