Health visiting service referrals

How to refer to our health visiting service

The health visiting service offers an open referral system for families and practitioners via our Single Point of Access: 

Lambeth 
Phone: 020 3049 5300 
gstt.SPAHealthVisitingServiceLambeth@nhs.net

Southwark 
Phone: 020 3049 8166 
gstt.SPAHealthVisitingServiceSouthwark@nhs.net

The health visiting service also offers specialist services to all children aged 0 to 5 years who are living in Lambeth and Southwark. These services are:

  • complex needs health visiting service
  • health visiting support and development service
  • HENRY programme
  • early intervention health visiting

Children with complex needs 

Children with complex needs under 5 years old who have received a diagnosis and are registered with a GP in Southwark or Lambeth can be referred into the complex needs health visiting service.

The service accepts referrals for:

  • unborn babies who have had an antenatal diagnosis of complex genetic conditions like Down's syndrome T21, spina bifida or life-limiting conditions 
  • children with a physical neurodisability

The service will accept referrals for complex needs children who would benefit from support around issues such as sleep, toilet training or behaviour. Parents or carers of special needs children who would benefit from emotional support can also be referred into the service. 

The team accept referrals from:

  • health visitors
  • occupation therapists  
  • paediatricians 
  • general practitioners 
  • speech and language therapists
  • physiotherapists
  • school nurses
  • paediatric continence nurses

Referrals will be considered from social care and education professionals. We unfortunately cannot consider self-referrals.

Antenatal referrals

You can refer unborn babies who have received a formal diagnosis of a complex genetic disorder by completing the health visiting notification form (Word 96KB) and emailing it to gstt.EarlyInterventionHealthVisitingService@nhs.net.

Postnatal referrals

Please complete the complex needs health visitor referral form (Word 149KB) and email it to gstt.ComplexNeedsHealthVisiting@nhs.net.

Health visiting support and development team

Download the support and development team referral form (Word 64KB).

All referrals must consider the required criteria (including reason for referral and any details from the initial assessment) and must be sent by email to gstt.HVSupportAndDevelopmentWorker@nhs.net.

Please note that the health visiting support and development team offers a specialist health visiting service and referrals are considered from healthcare professionals only. Self-referrals are not accepted.

HENRY programme referral process

Parents and carers can book directly onto the HENRY workshops by emailing gstt.HVSupportAndDevelopmentWorker@nhs.net.

Early intervention health visiting service referral process

Download the health visiting notification form (Word 96KB).

Please consider the required criteria (including reason for referral and any details from the initial assessment) and email the form to gstt.EarlyInterventionhHealthVisitingService@nhs.net.

Please note that we offer a specialist health visiting service and referrals are considered from healthcare professionals only. Self-referrals are not accepted.