Health Visiting Teams contact details

The teams are available Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm.

Barking and Dagenham West Locality	0300 300 1672, 0300 300 1813
Barking and Dagenham North Locality	0300 300 1727
Barking and Dagenham East Locality	0300 300 1875

Please click on the links below for information and to download booklets:

Off to the best start	Building a happy baby	A guide to Immunisation  Immunisation schedule	Introduction to solids	Vitamin D
Guide to bottle feeding	For parents: Safer sleep guide for parents For professionals: https://www.basisonline.org.uk/	Child accident prevention	Birth to Five	Healthy Start
Eating well: the first year	Postnatal depression and baby blues	Perinatal mental health information	Sepsis	Protecting your baby against meningitis and septicaemia Symptom checker
Pelvic floor exercises	Contraception service	Family planning clinics	Support for victims of domestic abuse

Coronavirus (COVID19) - advice for parents

• Advice for parents/carers if your child is unwell during coronavirus
• Advice for parents/carers of babies less than three months old during coronavirus
• Coping with a crying baby during COVID-19
• Coronavirus and caring for your baby
• Coronavirus and vulnerable children and young people - information for families
• Diarrhoea and vomiting
• Fever
• Guide for parents on which NHS service to use
• Head injury
• ICON cribsheet for midwives
• Lullaby Trust Safer sleep: Coronavirus and caring for your baby
• Managing childhood illnesses
• Parent information for newborn babies
• Rashes: When should you worry
• Wheeze and breathing difficulties