ABC of one to seven. Health services for children: the community.

Community clinics are particularly prevention programme, as an integrated primary health care package. importanity clinics are particularlv | However, there is a continuing need, particularly in deprived inner city areas, for a core of consultant led child health doctors and nurses to provide * Vulnerable families this service in clinics, nurseries, and schools. Fewer general practitioners * Recent immigrants are involved with the preventive health care of schoolchildren. The children who continue to attend community clinics may come from the more vulnerable families who: * Mobile population * May not be registered with a general practitioner * May be registered with a doctor who does not offer child health surveillance or immunisation * May be recent immigrants, homeless, or of refugee status * May be of a more mobile population.