Your Health Visiting and other health services during Covid

Updated on 10/08/20

We are now beginning to open up our Health Visiting Service again and discussing with GPs and Children’s Centres how we can provide our Well Baby Clinics safely. We are offering a mixture of home visits and appointments in the community.

If your child is unwell and needs emergency care the Homerton Hospital A&E Department is open and they will be happy to care for your infant or child.

Please read up to date advice from the NHS, the government and Homerton Hospital on coronavirus and what to do if you have symptoms.

We are reviewing the situation daily and are asking you to check our website regularly.

You can contact the Hackney and City Health Visiting Service on 0207 683 4151 or 0207 683 4219 if you need advice about the health and wellbeing of your child or any other queries.

Please read the CORONAVIRUS ADVICE FOR PARENTS from UNICEF, the NHS and the Lullaby Trust, including on questions such as “Does coronavirus affect children?”, “Is it safe for a mother to breastfeed if she is infected with the coronavirus?”, “Can pregnant women pass the coronavirus on to unborn children?”.

As the situation is changing rapidly advice is updated daily. Check above websites regularly for up to date information