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Health Visiting Team: Bright Start
IslingtonProvided By
The Health Visiting Team provides face-to-face visits at home or in clinics to support families with developmental reviews, antenatal contacts, new birth visits, and emotional wellbeing visits. They also offer group sessions on parenting and healthy development.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusions
- parents to be and parents and carers of children under five.
How to Refer
0-19 Single Point of Access
All families with children aged 0-5 have access to a Bright Start health visiting team. Check which team to contact by calling the number above.
Family Information Service
All families with children aged 0-5 have access to a Bright Start health visiting team. Check which team to contact by calling the number above.
Self-referral
Details of how to access the service can be found on the Whittington Health website.
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