Earlier this month, our Southwest Locality Health Visiting Team attended the Children and Family Centre (CFC) launch event at Ocean Children’s Centre.
On the day, there was free food, drink, goodie bags, and activities for children and families at the centre.
Southwest Health Visiting Team Interim Locality Clinical Manager, Kate Oxlade explained the importance of health visitors attending these types of events. She explained: “As specialist public health nurses, we used this event to share our knowledge and provide health promotion on topics including immunisations, oral health, child development, the role of the Health Visitor, safe sleep, home safety and infant feeding (in line with our BFI accreditation).
“We also discussed our MECSH (Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting) programme with eligible families as an example of the additional support we provide. Overall, we feel the event was a success and received very positive feedback.”
The pandemic has changed the way our services communicate with families, but our Health Visiting team has consistently been offering support and sharing expertise. The service will be returning to face-to-face contacts wherever possible, including at partner locations such as Children and Family Centre’s throughout Tower Hamlets.
To contact the Southwest locality Health Visiting team, please call 0203 950 5685 or email [javascript protected email address]
