Public Health Nursing Services
Public Health Nursing Services include Health Visiting, School Nursing, Family Nurse Partnership, School Immunisation Team and the Health Protection Nursing Service.
Health visitors and School Nurses are registered nurses who have additional training in community public health nursing. Health visitors visit parents at home offering support and advice from pregnancy in the ante-natal period until the child starts school through a universal service for all children 0- 4 years. School nurses offer health reviews from your child starts primary school and post primary school through a universal service for all children 5-19 years.
Health Protection Nursing Service
The Health Protection Nursing Service is a nurse led specialist community public health nursing service available for Tuberculosis (TB) screening including new entrant Latent TB screening and selective BCG immunisation for all new notified entrants including adults and children form high incidence countries.
This includes:
- Tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing, screening including management support for TB cases residing in the NHSCT that are notified by the Public Health Agency (PHA).
- New entrant TB screening and health advice for notified new entrants arriving to reside in the NHSCT from high incidence TB countries.
- Neo-natal and school age BCG immunisation for referred children up to 16 years old who meet the selective TB risk criteria. BCG immunisation is also provided to TB contacts up to the age of 35years old who are identified and screened as TB contacts.
- BCG immunisation is also provided to TB contacts up to the age of 35 years old who are identified and screened as TB contacts.
- Coordination of Hepatitis B immunisation for Infants at risk born to Hepatitis B positive parents
- TB education and training (including specialist Mantoux testing)
The service is continually evolving to meet the needs of ethnic populations residing within the Trust.
Family Nurse Partnership (FNP)
The Family Nurse Partnership helps young mums have a healthy pregnancy and improves health and developmental outcomes for the child.
It is a free and voluntary service for those mothers under 20 who are parenting for the first time. The family nurse will visit regularly from early pregnancy until your child is two years old, and will share lots of information about pregnancy, giving birth and looking after your baby.
