Health Visiting
Health Visitors are qualified nurses who have taken further training in Community & Child Health. They work with individuals, families and groups to:
- Visit all parents with pre-school children
- Promote good health
- Prevent and detect ill health by offering support & guidance with:
- Ante-natal health
- Post-natal health including depression
- Family planning & sexual health
- Parenting
- Feeding & nutrition
- Your child’s growth & development
- Immunisations
- Hearing, vision & speech
- Behavioural & sleeping problems
- Play
- Accident prevention & child safety
- Child protection
- Prescriptions for some medicines
- Infant massage
How to Access this Service
Usually you are assigned a health visitor by your GP however any other health care professional can also refer you to this service.
Location
Health Visitors are based in the following health centres and clinics:
In north Belfast:
In east Belfast and castlereagh:
- Knockbreda Health and Wellbeing Centre
- The Arches Health and Wellbeing CentreCentre
- Dundonald Health Centre
- Cherryvalley Clinic
In south Belfast:
In west Belfast:
