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very child in Swindon under the age of five years will have a health visitor. If you have a young baby, you should have met your health visitor or a member of the health visiting team.


Health visitors are Public Health Professionals, our role is to help children and families adopt healthy lifestyles. We work with parents regarding their children’s health and development and issues relating to parenthood.


The Health Visiting Service in Swindon consists of four geographically located Health Visiting Teams, which are part of larger multi-disciplinary locality teams within Swindon Borough Council.


If you would like to find out more information regarding the Health Visiting Service (Healthy Child Programme) in your area please contact the following:-


North Health Visiting Team: Team Leader: Bindoo Rattan. Office number: (01793) 463636.


South Health Visiting Team: Team Leader: Gill Fitzgerald. Office number: (01793) 463177.


Central North Health Visiting Team: Team Leader: Melissa Cashmore. Office number: (01793) 465422


Central South Health Visiting Team: Team Leader: Jo Dalby.


Office number: (01793) 466436.


Give your child the best protection from illness


Vaccination is one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine. No other medical intervention has done more to save lives in recent times.


Thanks to the NHS Childhood Vaccination Programme, children in the UK are now protected against many dangerous diseases. It’s easy to underestimate how important immunisations are because they continue to be so effective.


When your baby is about 6 weeks old you should automatically receive an invitation to take your baby to the doctors for their first immunisations (due when your baby is 2 months old).


If you’d like to talk more about the immunisation programme before then please contact your local Health Visitor or GP.


If you have an older child who has missed any of their vaccines and want to arrange this now, please just contact your GP surgery and make an appointment.


For more information, visit www.nhs.uk/planners/vaccinations


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