Enfield’s Health Visiting Service
Health visiting teams work with families to promote the health and wellbeing of children from pregnancy until their 5th birthday
The Health Visiting Service provides parents and carers with support for themselves and their child as they begin to grow.
This support includes:
- During your pregnancy at 28-32 weeks
- Between 10-14 day of baby’s birth
- Six-eight weeks after your baby’s birth
- When your child turns one. This will be a developmental review by a health visitor or early years practitioner
- When your child turns two. This will be a developmental review by a health visitor or early years practitioner
Health visitors are part of Enfield’s 0-19 Service covering Enfield, and work in locality based teams. Each team provides care and support from community locations that are accessible to families accessing the service.
Your health visitor can help you with anything you are concerned about:
- Your health
- Your child’s health
- Your family’s health
- Postnatal depression
- All the usual things that you might want help and advice on with a new baby, including feeding, sleeping, crying, minor ailments, and when to see a doctor.
Your health visitor will also monitor your baby’s development, and weigh and measure your baby. Your health visitor will record visits in your child’s personal health record book – this may be your ‘red book’, or an electronic version, called an ‘e-red book’.
Your health visitor will also record their name and contact details in your red book, so you know how to contact them and when you can see them, and how to get help if they are not available.
Every family with a child under 5 that lives in Enfield will be allocated a health visitor. Anyone can refer to the service including GP, midwifes and schools. Parents can also refer themselves by contacting their Health Visiting Team by phone requesting a home visit or telephone contact.
Healthy Child Clinics
Enfield’s Health visitors run Healthy Child Clinics which are drop-ins where you can have baby or your child weighed and speak to a health visitor for advice and information.
You can attend any Healthy Child Clinic in the borough. Details of the Healthy Child Clinics can be found here.
To contact Enfield’s Health Visiting Service please telephone 020 3988 7300 or email northmid.enfieldchildhealth@nhs.net. Alternatively please visit the Health Visiting Service webpage for further information.
