Service: Health Visiting

Telephone:

• Gilbrae Team                       0797 7812 732
• Greyfriars Team                   0797 7812 780
• Charlotte Street Team         0797 7812 781
• St Michaels, Lochthorn, New Abbey        0797  7812  765

Upper Nithsdale      

• Practice:  Thornhill Tel: 01848 330208
• Practice:  Cairn Valley Tel: 01387 820266  
• Practice:   Sanquhar Tel: 01659 493522       

Annandale and Eskdale

• Lockerbie Tel: 01576 205505
• Lower Annandale and Eskdale     01461 633235 

Wigtownshire

• Stranraer   01776 707794
• Newton Stewart 01671 403068

• Stewartry   01556 505710

Contact email: 

• dg.gillbraehealthvisitors@nhs.scot
• dg.greyfriarshealthvisitors@nhs.scot
• dg.charlottehealthvisitors@nhs.scot
• dg.stmichaelshealthvisitors@nhs.scot
• dg.uppernithsdale-hv@nhs.scot
• dg.UpperAnnandale-HV@nhs.scot
• dg.LowerAnnandale-HV@nhs.scot
• dg.stranraerhealthvisitors@nhs.scot
• dg.newtonstewarthealthvisitors@nhs.scot
• dg.stewartryhealthvisitors@nhs.scot

Website: 

N/A

Address:

• Health Visitors Gillbrae Caseload: The Willows Children, Young People and Family Centre Glencaple Road Dumfries DG1 4TG
• Health Visitors  Greyfriars Caseload: Address:  The Willows Children, Young People and Family Centre Glencaple Road Dumfries DG1 4TG
• Health Visitors Charlotte Caseload Address:  Health Visitors Office, Lochfield PCC 12-28 Lochfield Road, Dumfries,DG29BH
• Health Visitors St Michaels, Lochthorn, New Abbey Caseload: Health Visitors Office, Lochfield PCC 12-28 Lochfield Road, Dumfries,DG29BH
• Thornhill Health Centre The Health Centre Thornhill DG5 5AA / Sanquhar Health Centre ,Station Road ,Sanquhar, DG4 6BT
• Lockerbie Health Centre, Victoria Gardens , Lockerbie, DG11 2BJ
• Annan Health Centre  Stapleton Road Annan DG12 6NQ / Gretna Surgery Central Avenue   46 Annan Road Gretna  DG16 5NA
• The Oak Tree Family Centre Dalrymple Street Stranraer Wigtownshire DG9 7EH
• Newton Stewart Creebridge Newton Stewart DG8 6NR
• Garden Hill Primary Care Centre (PCC) 2 Gardenhill Road  Castle Douglas  DG7 3EE         

Who the service is aimed at: 

Health Visiting is a universal service offered to all families with children under school age.

Support provided: 

The Universal Health Visiting Pathway

The Pathway presents a core home visiting programme to be offered to all families by Health Visitors as a minimum standard. Along with these core home visits Health Visitors exercising the function of a Named Person on behalf of their Health Board will be required to be available and responsive to parents to promote support and safeguard the wellbeing of children by providing information, advice, support and help to access other services. The Pathway is based on several underlying principles.

These are:

• Promoting, supporting and safeguarding the wellbeing of children
• Person-centeredness
• Building strong relationships from pregnancy
• Offering support during the early weeks and planning future contacts with families
• Focusing on family strengths, while assessing and respectfully responding to their needs.

The programme consists of 11 home visits to all families – 8 within the first year of life and 3 Child Health Reviews between 13 months and 4-5 years.

Spanning the antenatal to pre-school period, it ensures the opportunity for Health Visitors, children and their parents to truly “connect”; and provides the platform for ensuring the unique family/Health Visitor relationship, pivotal to providing a gateway to other levels of Health Visiting provision and to promoting, supporting and safeguarding the wellbeing of children.

This early establishment of the family/Health Visitor relationship provides Health Visitors

with a sound foundation for their role as the Named Person from birth

Age range:

Children under school age

Area covered:

Health Visitor teams cover all Dumfries and Galloway

Can an individual access the service directly, or do they need to be referred to it by another service – like a school, social worker, health practitioner for example?

Individuals access the service directly, but another service can also seek assistance from Health Vistors.

How to make a referral:

Using a Request for Assistance form.

Top tips for making a ‘good’ referral (if applicable): 

If a service is seeking assistance from Health Visitors, it is helpful to indicate which of the SHAANARI indicators the help is being requested for:

• Safe
• Healthy
• Achieving
• Nurtured
• Active
• Respected and Responsible
• Included

What needs to be in place before a referral is accepted (for example a Child’s Plan)? 

N/A

Is there a charge/fee for this service? 

No

If there is a charge/fee, is there funding available for this?

N/A