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Healthy together

Services for children who are aged between 0 to 19.

Healthy Together

Healthy Together, provided by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, delivers the Healthy Child Programme to local families in the city.

It initially focuses on the first five years of a child’s life, providing a programme of screening, immunisation, and health and development reviews to all families, as well as advice on all aspects of health, wellbeing and parenting.

Following the Healthy Child Programme framework, Healthy Together continues to provide universal and progressive services for all children aged 5 to 19 years to promote optimal health and wellbeing.

Lots of health information and advice is provided on Healthy Together’s three public health websites:

Public health nurses (health visitors)

If you're pregnant and you live in Leicester, you'll be assigned a named public health nurse (health visitor) before your child is born, and offered a contact with them.

Healthy Together goes on to offer important health and developmental assessments, to all children at key developmental milestones throughout the early years. These assessments, which could take place in your home or at local clinic, are as follows:

  • Pre-birth visit (from 27 weeks pregnant)
  • New birth visit (10-14 days old)
  • Developmental check (6-8 weeks old)
  • 10-12 month assessment
  • 2 year 3 month assessment.

In addition to these main contacts, you can get in touch with your public health nurse (health visitor) at any time if you need further support and advice. The service offers a confidential text messaging service, Chat Health, for parents. Text 07520 615381 and you will be sent an automated message straightaway, confirming that your message has been received, and will receive a text response within 24 hours. This service operates Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays), 9am – 5pm. 

Once your child is five, you can seek support from your public health (school) nurse (school nurse). Your child’s school will be able to put you in touch with the school nurse, or you can text as above to arrange an appointment. Public health (school) nurses can provide support for parents and carers on a wide range of topics, including healthy eating, child development, emotional health, behaviour difficulties and parenting concerns.

Public health nurses (school nurses)

Public health (school) nurses work with children aged 5-19 on a range of issues including emotional health and wellbeing, stress, anxiety, bullying and sexual health. They run weekly clinics in all secondary schools and can be contacted through the confidential text service, Chat Health, on 07520 615386.

National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)

All children in reception and year six are weighed and measured as part of the government’s child measurement programme, and the results are sent directly to parents. The measurements take place in school, and are carried out by the public health nursing team. Find more information and FAQs on the Health for kids website.