The health visiting teams consist of health visitors and community nursery nurses. All GPs and Children’s centres are linked to a named Health Visitor.
Every family living in Bury with a pre-school child will be offered access to the Health Visiting service. The Health Visitor will see you at home or at one of the at the well-baby clinics.by appointment
All Health Visitors are qualified nurses or midwives with specialist training and experience in many key areas including child health, health promotion and infant feeding.
Health Visitors can advise on:
- Infant feeding/breastfeeding
- Healthy eating and child growth
- Immunisations
- Child development including sleep and behaviour
- Parenting
- Accident prevention
- Post-natal mood problems
- Family health