Community Health Services

How to find us Family Health Visiting Team

North Cray Children’s Centre Your opinion matters 1 Davis Way (off Bedens Road) Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is committed to providing the highest standards of care, so we DA14 5JR welcome your views on the services we provide. If you Tel: 020 8308 3886 would like to comment, make a suggestion or a complaint, Fax: 020 8308 3889 please speak to the person you normally see or ask to speak to the manager. You may also like to speak to our Patient Advice and Liaison Information for parents and carers Service (PALS) by ringing the of babies and young children freephone number Children’s Centre on 0800 917 7159.

March 2011

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The health visiting team delivers the Child Health Promotion When your baby is seven Programme to all children with a GP in the borough of Bexley. weeks old, please book his/her eight-weeks’ They visit the homes of families with newborns, to give a development assessment hearing test, breastfeeding advice, and developmental checks and immunisations with at eight and 27 months. your GP.

Health visitors also provide advice on immunisations and minor Please remember to bring ailments to parents and carers. your child’s red book, as shown opposite, to each There will be a chance for you to ask questions and you may like to clinic visit. write them down before your appointment and keep them handy. Your team Extra help and support is also available in a targeted service to Health Visitors: Clare Hunter, Jackie Masters. families with additional health or social care needs. Staff Nurse: Anne Gasson. Nursery Nurse: Sue Burbidge. Important dates for your diary Administration: Frances Cronin.

Contact your GP for appointments, except where stated. Child Health Clinic opening times ● 6 weeks after birth - Postnatal checks for mother ● 8 weeks - Developmental Assessment Wednesdays: 1.30pm-3.15pm for weighing and advice at the ● 8 weeks - 1st - immunisation Health Visitors Clinic, North Cray Children’s Centre. ● 12 weeks - 2nd Immunisation ● 16 weeks - 3rd Immunisation Confidentiality ● 8 months Development Assessment - health visitors’ appointment ● 1 year - Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), All our staff are required to abide by a strict code of conduct on meningococcal C infection (Hib/Me.C) confidentiality. We only share information with those who need to know ● 13 months - Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) Immunisation in order to provide good quality care. Occasionally there may be ● 2¼ years - Development Assessment exceptions, for example to support a clinical audit or monitor the ● 3½ years - Development Assessment quality of care given. We will usually discuss this with you beforehand.