Growing Healthy Gateshead

The Growing Healthy Gateshead 0-19 service is an integrated service for families, expectant mothers, children and young people that offers interventions from the pre-natal stage up to the age of 19.

The Growing Healthy Gateshead 0-19 Healthy Child Programme service is an integrated service for families, expectant mothers, children and young people that offers interventions from the pre-natal stage up to the age of 19. The Trust leads on the delivery of this service, with a focus on working across services and organisational boundaries to improve public health outcomes.

The universal reach of the HCP provides an invaluable opportunity from early in a child’s life to identify families that are in need of additional support and children who are at risk of poor outcomes.

0-19 Services Partnership Agreement with Gateshead Council
Gateshead Council are consulting on a proposal to enter into a Section 75 agreement with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) for the provision of 0-19 Public Health Nursing Services in Gateshead, including Health Visiting, School Nursing and the Family Nurse Partnership.
Please utilise the link here to find out more and take part 

If you need to contact the team please use the Single Point of Contact telephone number: 03000 031 918.

We’ve got a local Gateshead team page on Facebook where we share information and general health advice. Please click the link and like our page: www.facebook.com/GrowingHealthyGateshead

The aims of the HCP service is to:

  • Help parents develop and sustain a strong bond with children;
  • Encourage care that keeps children healthy and safe;
  • Protect children from serious disease, through screening and immunisation;
  • Reduce childhood obesity by promoting healthy eating and physical activity;
  • Identify health issues early, so support can be provided in a timely manner;
  • Make sure children are prepared for and supported in all child care, early years education settings and especially are supported to be ready to learn at age two and ready for school by age five.

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About us – what we’re commissioned by Gateshead Council to provide.