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GP and community health services including health visiting.

The Bliss helpline provides information and support to parents and families with sick or premature babies and those who have had a baby in a special care unit. The charity also produces a handbook with useful advice and contacts.

Breathe Stop Smoking Service is a free Camden & Islington service. Get the support that suits you best to stop smoking, including tips to stop by yourself, personalised help from a specialist advisor online or over the phone, and face-to-face support in Islington (and Camden) throughout…

Join an accredited First Aid trainer to further develop your understanding of basic First Aid and how to support your child in the event of an accident. Content includes minor burns, choking and resuscitation. Learn how to deal with common accidents and emergencies. Booking essential…

Join an accredited First Aid trainer to further develop your understanding of basic First Aid and how to support your child in the event of an accident. Content includes minor burns, choking and resuscitation. Learn how to deal with common accidents and emergencies. Booking essential…

Join an accredited First Aid trainer to further develop your understanding of basic First Aid and how to support your child in the event of an accident. Content includes minor burns, choking and resuscitation. Learn how to deal with common accidents and emergencies. Booking essential…

Join an accredited First Aid trainer to further develop your understanding of basic First Aid and how to support your child in the event of an accident. Content includes minor burns, choking and resuscitation. Learn how to deal with common accidents and emergencies. Booking essential…

Family Support Workers help with a range of family issues and signpost to other services such as housing and iWork. No booking required, just drop in, but places may be limited. Covid-19 information: all Bright Start activities have been risk assessed to ensure they comply…

Pre-booked 1:1 breastfeeding support appointments To book, or to arrange alternative telephone support, video call or home visit appointments (limited availability on a case-by-case basis), call Islington Breastfeeding Peer Support Service on 020 3316 8439 and leave a message, or email For urgent or wider health concerns…

Meet with our breastfeeding supporters to talk through all your questions about feeding and caring for your newborn when he or she arrives. It's an interactive session that's a bit different every time, depending on what you particularly want to know, rather than a formal…

Join an accredited First Aid trainer online, to further develop your understanding of basic First Aid and how to support your child in the event of an accident. Content includes minor burns, choking and resuscitation. Booking essential

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

Our child health clinics are now appointment only clinics. They continue to be run from the health centres across Islington. You can book an appointment by calling your health visitor direct if you have the number, or by calling one of the duty lines. You…

A children's occupational therapist works with children and young people with a range of physical, sensory or learning difficulties. These therapists work within multi-disciplinary teams and parents can contact them directly. Occupational therapists are skilled at assessing and providing treatment and help with physical functions…

A physiotherapist that specialises in working with children and young people looks at how the child moves, and then works to help them achieve their ‘optimum physical development’. The aim is not just to help them move, but to help them move to the best of…

Arranges dental services to priority needs groups who have difficulty accessing services from NHS and High Street Dentists, including children with special needs, adults with disabilities, housebound and homeless people

Specialist paediatric dental care for children with special needs and in particular autistic spectrum disorders.

This service provides assessment and treatment for foot or foot related problems.

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the UK's only national charity dealing with all aspects of Cystic Fibrosis.

Educational Psychologists are involved in enhancing the learning and development of all children and young people. They work with teachers, parents, carers and other professionals to help bring about positive changes. Educational Psychologists work with children and young people between the ages of 0 and 25…

3 FREE courses from Islington Adult and Community Learning, for Islington residents or parents with children in Islington schools. You must be 19 or over, unemployed or low-waged and receiving benefits. Introduction to SEND in Schools for parents and carers (online) starts 11 January 2022…

Finsbury Health Centre provides a range of services for the local community including: Child health (including hearing tests); Special Needs dental clinic; district nurse; health visitor; GP's surgeries; physiotherapy; podiatrist; speech therapy; Michael Palin stammering centre; family planning (including cervical smears and pregnancy testing) -…

Join an accredited First Aid trainer to further develop your understanding of basic First Aid and how to support your child in the event of an accident. Content includes minor burns, choking and resuscitation. Learn how to deal with common accidents and emergencies. Booking essential…

Provides therapeutic support to children and adolescents (and their families) where the young person is unhappy with the gender they are born with, e.g. boys who want to be or believe they are girls and girls who want to be or believe they are boys.…

Ante-natal, child health, including baby clinic, neo-natal hearing tests. Community dental clinics, district nurse, health visitor, podiatrist, post-natal. Child psychologist for children 0 -11 years old by appointment. For GP's Services call 020 7619 6670. Please ring for details of other clinics.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children(GOSH) is the largest children's hospital in the United Kingdom. It works in partnership with the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), part of University College London. GOSH does not have an Accident and Emergency department and only accepts specialist…

This service is provided across Islington for all members of the community who are healthy carriers of an unusual haemoglobin and for individuals and families affected by major haemoglobin disorders such as sickle cell disease and thalassaemia major. Services include counselling, dental services, contraception, pre-…

GP and community health services, including health visiting.

The full healthy child programme is still being delivered. Contacts from the health visiting service are being managed as a ‘blended offer’ with face to face contacts in your own home and in local health centres by appointment as well as video or audio contacts.…

Healthy Start is a Department of Health funded scheme which provides low-income families and pregnant women with free vouchers every week. These vouchers can be spent on milk, plain fresh and frozen vegetables, first infant formula and used to collect vitamins for both mothers and…

Antenatal by appointments (via the Whittington Hospital), child health (including baby clinic, toddler clinic, BCG injections by appointments, hearing tests, breastfeeding support group, first time mothers group (booked sessions) community dental clinic, district nurse, health visitor, podiatrist, GP's surgeries, Enuresis (bed - wetting clinic) by…

The Great Ormond Street (GOSH) Family Clinic provides access to a wide range of services for children and their families with HIV/AIDS. Physicians and nurses will see children in the clinic and make referrals to other specialist health teams, including those based at Mortimer Market…

GP and community health services.

The Incredible Years programme supports parents to effectively manage their child’s behaviour as they grow and develop (and enter primary school). The group provides the opportunity to meet other parents whilst learning how to manage misbehaviour using age-appropriate positive parenting strategies. The programme will also…

The Incredible Years programme supports parents to develop confidence in being a parent. The group provides the opportunity to meet other parents whilst learning positive parenting strategies to increase the child’s self-esteem and reduce aggressive behaviour problems. Parents will develop an understanding of the different…

The Incredible Years programme supports parents to feel less stressed and become more confident in managing their child’s behaviour. The group provides the opportunity to meet other parents and learn positive parenting strategies to help reduce negative behaviours and increase positive child behaviours. This course…

Breastfeeding support in Islington is still being provided during the current COVID-19 outbreak, but has to adapt to the changing situation. The information below is current as at January 2022; check our Facebook page for any further updates. In Islington we aim to provide encouragement, support and up-to-date…

Community children's nurses (CCN) are registered children's nurses who provide clinical nursing to the child at home or in school; assisting parents to provide treatment and monitor the child’s progress. They are a source of support, information and advice for families. They may act as …

The Islington Early Years Area SENCO Team works to improve the quality of provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities in early years settings across Islington's maintained, voluntary, private and independent sectors. We work with Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs), staff and parents in…

Family Nurse PartnershipThe Family Nurse Partnership is a preventative programme for first time young parents living in Camden, Islington, Haringey and Hackney & City. The programmes primary focus is improving the health and wellbeing of the child and mother in pregnancy, supporting parents understanding of…

Killick Street Health Centre offers a range of services including; child health services, baby health reviews, immunisations, library books, midwifery clinic, counselling, adult psychology, child psychologist, drug and alcohol counselling, podiatry, benefits advice, smoking cessation, contraception and getting back into work advisor.

The Lifeforce service is a paediatric palliative care team which cares for children with a life-threatening/ life limiting illnesses. It focuses on the physical, emotional, social and spiritual elements of life. The team provides support for the family and aims to work to improve the quality of…

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the world's leading centres for eye health. Our main focus is the treatment and care of NHS patients with a wide range of eye problems from common complaints to rare conditions which need treatments not available…

Our free helpline is run by trained sleep advisors, many of who are specialists in working with SEND. We can talk to young people directly, or parents (we can also talk to adults about their sleep issues). The helpline is open 5 nights a week,…