The Coventry Health Visiting Service is here for you! We’re a team of Health Visitors (qualified specialist community public health nurses) working in partnership with community Nursery Nurses, Infant Feeding Specialists and other professionals who support families in Coventry. We help to empower parents and carers to make decisions that affect their family’s health and well-being. We provide expert information, developmental assessments and interventions for babies, children and families along the parenthood journey – from before your baby is born until 5 years of age. Our role is focused on improving the health outcomes for children, the local community, wider populations and to support reducing inequalities
We work to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families in the crucial first years of life.
Our Health Visiting teams offer friendly support and advice and we work closely with GPs, midwives, school nurses and the wider local community.
The service is universal to all children and families, with a wider service to those with additional needs.
Your community
A range of services are provided by your local family hub and the wider community.
Universal Services – Offered to all
We provide the Healthy Child Programme to ensure a healthy start for your child, ongoing support for parents, and access to a range of community based services and resources. It is a universal service that is offered to all parents and includes:
Targeted support gives parents an expert response from health visitors when specific help is needed. This may be in the case of:
Specialist support provides ongoing support from health visiting teams plus a range of local services that help with more complex issues. These include Family Hubs, other community services including some charities when appropriate, and the Family Nurse Partnership. For example:
Open well baby clinics are offered by the Coventry health visiting team. Clinics are available throughout Coventry, specifically for preschool-aged children. For guidance from your Health Visiting Service or to weigh your baby, feel free to visit one of our clinics during operating hours. No appointment is necessary, please bring your Red Book.
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Read recent news, service updates and helpful advice from Coventry Family Health and Lifestyle Team.
