Jill has been a health visitor for twenty years, based in lancashire,
Cumbria and now North Shropshire. She has two children and lives in Market Drayton. She works with Drayton Medical Practice and her Health Visiting colleagues are Lesley Cooper, Jane Roberts, and Sue Thorley.

Health Visitors in Market Drayton make contact with every child under 5 years of age registed with Drayton Medical Practice.  Health Visitors promote healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle. At the Taste of the Town Exhibition (2002) the health Visitors had a healthy eating display, and offered to weigh and measure anyone who wanted to know if their weight was within healthy limits for their height.  There were an alarming number of young girls who wrongly perceived themselves to be overweight.

Health Visitors have contact with parents-to-be and support the parents until their child reaches school age.  Throughout their contact they try to enable the parents to  provide themselves and their growing family with a healthy diet.  Weaning onto solid food is an important time, and the Health Visitors offer information to encourage a diet with little salt and sugar. As a support system, the health visitors try to work with the family to create a diet of weaning foods that suit their cultural lifestyle.  An example of the information would be, to start the child on water rather than fruit juices, which keeps their sugar intake low as well as protecing their developing teeth from early caries.