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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 
gst-tr.SPAHealthVisitingServiceLambeth@nhs.net 

Southwark 
Phone: 020 3049 8166 
gst-tr.SPAHealthVisitingServiceSouthwark@nhs.net 

The health visiting service also offers specialist services to all children age 0-5 years resident in Lambeth and Southwark areas. These services are:

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

Complex needs health visiting team 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 gst-tr.EarlyInterventionHealthVisitingservice@nhs.net.

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

Children with complex needs 

Children with complex needs under the age of five years old who have received a diagnosis and are registered with a GP in Southwark or Lambeth can be referred into the service. The team will accept referrals for complex needs children who would benefit from support around issues such as sleep, toilet training or behaviour. Parent(s)/carer of special needs children who would benefit from emotional support can also be referred into the service. 

The team receive referrals from the following practitioners:  

  • 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. 

Health visiting support and development team referral process:

Download the 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 via email to:

gst-tr.HVSupportAndDevelopmentWorker@nhs.net

Please note that 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: gst-tr.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 gst-tr.EarlyInterventionHealthVisitingService@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.