The NHS health visitor, friend or foe?

Elizabeth Rust
An American Mummy in London
3 min readJun 16, 2023

--

The baby.

“The baby has seen two GPs, had a GP phone consultation and has been referred to a paediatrician, and yet you still don’t think I’ve done anything about her no longer being on her 90th percentile birth weight?” I shout down the phone at a GP calling to reprimand me at 9.35am Monday morning after I didn’t call a health visitor back on the previous Friday afternoon. I was so angry I was shaking. The baby was eating three…

--

--

Elizabeth Rust
An American Mummy in London

Send me your recipes. I’ll do my best to create them to feed my hungry family