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Health Visitors for Under 5s
Health visitors provide a core programme of services. These include antenatal support where indicated, by liaison with the midwives, primary visits to new mothers, developmental reviews at 8 months and a contact at 2 years to ensure optimal child development.
The health visitors provide a new parents’ group on a weekly basis which invites a range of speakers on subjects which interest new parents.
The health visitors provide support for parents who have difficulties with parenting and offer specialised play work from a community nursery nurse team member. The community nursery nurse also supports individual speech and language development in families and carries out developmental reviews in nurseries.
In addition, the team helps disadvantaged parents apply for assisted nursery places and/or financial grants.
The Haven – Service for Asylum Seekers
This is a ‘first stop’ clinic for newly arrived asylum seekers in Bristol. The Haven provides a comprehensive health assessment for those who have not yet registered with a GP.
This includes access to the Haven GP, public health screening and immunisations. They also facilitate registration to primary care practices.
The shared care programme at Montpelier Health Centre was set up in 2004.
Shared care workers from Bristol Drugs Project are employed to support GPs with the assessment and ongoing management and care of opiate dependent patients.
After a full needs and risk assessment has been undertaken, substitute medication prescriptions in the form of Methadone or Subutex may be offered to patients to give them the opportunity of reducing drug related harm, reducing illicit drug use, to achieve stability whilst on prescription and, in the long term, abstinence from illicit substances.
Shared care offers opiate dependent patients the opportunity to receive support through a non-judgemental service.
Midwives provide antenatal care from booking at around ten weeks through to delivery from 37- 42 weeks.
They provide regular antenatal appointments to monitor the well-being of mother and baby, and parent’s education classes to first time mums. They provide an on-call homebirth system for those who choose this option and delivery, with the chance of delivering in a pool if they chose to hire one and check that both mother and baby are well.
They also provide a comprehensive postnatal service from birth to 28 days if necessary, supporting women with feeding issues, baby care, etc. They provide vital screening tests at around 7-10 days, with mother’s consent.
They liaise closely with the health visitors who then take over the care of mother and baby.
