Health visiting service

Health visiting service:

  • Health visitors - qualified nurses with additional training in promoting good health within families and the community
  • Community staff nurses – qualified nurses with a role to support health visitors in delivering a robust service to the under 5 population.
  • Nursery nurses - who specialise in child development, behaviour issues, as well as health promotion
  • Health visitor assistants - who provide administrative support as well as facilitating Well Baby Clinics

The Health Visiting Team promotes good health and well being by working with children under 5 years of age and their families, young parents and the wider local communities. 

We do this by:

  • Offering advice and support on healthy lifestyles to prevent ill health in family homes and other community settings.
  • Signposting to other services and groups that address, for example, breastfeeding, child safety, managing minor childhood illnesses and smoking cessation
  • Providing Child Health Consultation Clinics, pre-booked appointments for advice on feeding, behaviour, parenting, child development, post natal depression and family issues
  • Work in collaboration with other specialists to support families whose children have additional needs
  • Working in partnership with other agencies such as Early Start, Social Care and the voluntary sector.
For further information:

Health Visiting Service
Royal Docks Medical Centre
21 East Ham Manor Way
Beckton
London E6 5NA

Tel: 020 7445 7726
Fax: 020 7445 7089