Children's Health
Health Visiting
Health visitors work alongside families to promote the health, wellbeing and development of their children, helping them to achieve their milestones and access support if needed. Health visitors provide support to new parents, including infant feeding and nutrition, immunisations, safe sleep, infant mental health, communication, development, physical and emotional health.
Health visitors assess and monitor health and development through the 11 contacts to support and enable families to help their child reach their potential. They help to tackle health inequalities and contribute to reducing child poverty, by supporting families access services that can help with income maximisation. They have roles in identifying and addressing health issues and work closely with families and other agencies to provide support on a range of issues that can impact on child development and family wellbeing, e.g. drug and alcohol use, smoking, sleep, parental mental ill health, domestic abuse, child abuse and neglect.
Get in touch
Health Visiting Teams work Monday - Friday, between 9am - 5pm. Health Visitors in South Ayrshire can be contacted by phoning the telephone number listed below:
Telephone: 01292 885501
If you require health or medical help or advice outside of these times, please contact NHS24 on 111, or your GP. For urgent or life-threatening events, please call 999.
Ayrshire Bairns App
If you would like any more information to support your child, please download the Ayrshire Bairns App.
To get the app, download the NHS Ayrshire & Arran App by searching for it in your Apple or Android mobile telephone App store. Then search for "Ayrshire Bairns".