What does the service offer?
The Health Visiting Service provides professional care, support and advice to promote and achieve health and wellbeing for pre-school children.
The Service is available to antenatal women, pre-school children and their families.
Health Visitors work in partnership with all parents, carers and other organisations to support them in giving their children the best possible start in life.
About health visitors
Health Visitors are trained nurses who have undergone additional training and who have expertise and experience in child health and development and family health in general.
Other members of the Health Visiting Team include Early Years Support Workers who are trained to work with children in the early years and administration staff who provide support to them.
All team members work together to ensure that you receive the service you need. View a list of our health visitors.
Please feel free to ask your Health Visitor any questions that you have when you meet.
Making contact
Health Visitors spend a lot of their working day on home visits however all teams have answerphones and will aim to get back to you as soon as they can if you leave a message by calling 01307 468888.
Health Visiting is a Monday - Friday service, offering both home visiting and clinic contacts.
Health Advice: NHS Inform
NHS Inform is Scotland's national health information service.
If you have questions about your health, visit www.nhsinform.scot or call 0800 22 44 88.
They can provide general health information, including advice on tests, treatments, illnesses, injuries, healthy living, support and health rights.
