Manchester Health Visiting Service

Manchester Health Visiting Service

Our Health Visiting teams work with families to get the best health and development outcomes for the children of Manchester.

Our role is to offer information and support to families through the early years, from pregnancy to primary school entry.

Every family with a child under the age of four and a half has access to a health visitor and their team. The service is delivered through home visits, contact in the community and telephone calls as necessary. This is a non-emergency service providing health education, advice and guidance.

Health visitors work with other services such as GPs, midwives, school nurses and social workers. Health visiting teams usually consist of health visitors, community staff nurses, community nursery nurses, early years outreach workers and team assistants.

The aim is to promote the health and well-being of you and your family. The actual service provided will vary according to a personalised assessment of each child and family’s own needs and evidence of what will work for them.

We offer 5 key contacts to all families:

  • antenatal health promoting review
  • new baby review 10-14 days after birth
  • 6 to 8 week review
  • 9 month health and development review
  • 2 year health and development review

When your child is 9 months and two years old, your local health visiting team will invite them for a health and development review. This is an opportunity to talk about your child’s progress, learn more about what you can do to help their development, and make sure that you have any support that you may need.

We also offer advice and support through our ParentLine service. ParentLine is a confidential text messaging service for Manchester parents and carers of children aged 0-5. The service is run by a dedicated team of health visitors who can provide advice and support on a range of topics including parenting, sleep, continence, immunisations, mental health, minor illness, behaviour, infant feeding, child development, healthy lifestyles and general health concerns.

Families can also contact their local Health Visiting Team by telephone should they require support.

Clinic Contact Details

Switchboard HV Team
Central East Abbey Hey Clinic

 

0161 529 6201 0161 529 6205
Levenshulme Health Centre

 

0161 861 2300 0161 861 2302
Longsight Health Centre

 

0161 529 6680 0161 529 6650
Central West Rusholme Health Centre

 

0161 861 2200 0161 470 6798
Chorlton Health Centre

 

0161 861 8888 0161 860 2916
North East The Cornerstone Centre

 

0161 529 6317 0161 529 6288
Newton Heath Health Centre

 

0161 684 9696 0161 683 2536
New Moston Team 0161 684 9696  

0161 529 6868

 

North West Harpurhey Health Centre

 

 

0161 861 2400 0161 861 2409
Cheetham Primary Care Centre

 

0161 549 6720 0161 549 6690
Charlestown Road Health Centre

 

0161 741 2000 0161 388 4019
Crumpsall Health Visiting team 0161 861 2400 0161 470 6711
Plant Hill Health Clinic

 

0161 740 8004 0161 720 5981
South Burnage Health Centre

 

0161 529 6500 0161 529 6485
Chorlton Park Team

 

0161 529 6174 0161 529 6151
Old Moat Children’s Centre

 

0161 388 4045 0161 388 4044
Wythenshawe Northenden Health Centre

 

0161 529 6174 0161 529 6150
Baguley Clinic

 

0161 946 0802 0161 388 4060
Forum Health

 

0161 549 6550 0161 549 6554
Wythenshawe offices, Stancliffe Road

 

0161 529 6780 0161 529 6740
Homeless Families Health Visiting Team

 

0161 861 8888 0161 860 2935

Please direct feeding queries to our team account to avoid possible delays: 

Infantfeedingteam@mft.nhs.uk

Infant Feeding Team, Health Visiting North
Children’s Community Health Services
Plant Hill Clinic
Plant Hill Road
Manchester
M9 8LX

Tel: 0161 720 5982

 

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm.
Excluding bank holidays.

If your child needs a medical examination or you are worried about your child’s health you should contact your GP, visit an NHS Walk-In Centre, or dial 111. In an emergency dial 999.

Social Media

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mlcohealthvisitors
Instagram:
www.instagram.com/mlcohealthvisitors

Facebook (Infant Feeding Team): www.facebook.com/infantfeedingteam

Additional Information

The Personal Child Health Record (or ‘red book’) is a record of your child’s health and development, it is yours to keep. The health visitor will go through this with you on the first visit. Please remember to take the book with you to your child’s health appointments.

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Page last reviewed: July 2024
Next review due: July 2025