Bury Health Visiting

The Health Visiting Service is a universal prevention and early detection service for all children and families that will enable them to achieve optimum health and wellbeing.

Every family in Bury with a pre-school child will be offered access to the Health Visiting Service. These services can be adapted to suit individual family needs within a home or community setting.

Health visitors are qualified nurses with specialist training and experience in many key areas, including child health, health promotion and education and work within a skill mix team including community staff nurses, nursery nurse and support staff.

The team can  advise on:

• Infant feeding / breast feeding
• Healthy eating and child growth
• Immunisation and prevention of disease
• Everyday issues such as child development, teething, sleeping and behaviour
• Parenting
• Accident prevention
• Post natal mood problems
• Domestic violence
• Signposting / referral to other services

Team contact numbers

Contact details for the health visiting teams:

• Radcliffe Health Visiting Team - 0161 724 2086 Opt 1
• Ramsbottom, Tottington and North Manor Health Visiting Team - 01706 282 933.
• Bury Town Centre Health Visiting Team - 0161 762 3291 (select option 3)
• Prestwich Health Visiting Team - 0161 798 2721
• Whitefield Health Visiting Team - 0161 351 2135 Opt 1
• Alternative service number - 01706 282 935

You can also follow Bury Health Visiting Service on Facebook.