Health Visiting

About the service

Our Health Visiting team supports families getting ready to be parents and giving birth, to your child’s toddler years and starting school. We work across the district, in family homes and local family hubs. Our team includes health visitors (Specialist Community Public Health Nurses), staff nurses and community nursery nurses.

We visit you and your baby at six key stages – before your baby is born, shortly after your baby’s birth and at 6-8 weeks, 3-4 months, 9-12 months and 2-2 ½ years. Your child will then see their School Nurse for routine health checks and any further support, or you can contact us.

Health visitors advise on a broad range of areas from your baby’s development to sleeping patterns, teething and toilet training, as well as helping you to look after yourself.

Our specialist Family Health services website Better Lives, Healthy Futures has a dedicated Health Visiting section for full details on how we can support you.

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How to access

All new parents will automatically be contacted by their Health Visitor so you don’t need to worry about setting this up.

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How to find us

We meet you wherever is best for you – at home, at your local doctor, your community or children’s centre. You can tell us what suits you at our first meeting, before you give birth.

We usually visit between 8.30am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday. If you need help outside these hours, you should contact the local service that usually provides out-of-hours support like your pharmacy, or for more urgent queries, 111.

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Contact

You can contact the Health Visiting team on  01274 221223.

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