Lancashire Healthy Young People & Families Service provides Health Visiting and School Nursing Services across the county
We provide Health Visiting services, health advice (from antenatal through to the first 5 years of your child’s life) and School Nursing Services for 5 to 19-year-olds (to age 25 for SEND).
This includes advising on healthy growth and care, breastfeeding, providing help with common health problems and working with other professionals to support young families and carers.
See ‘Our Services’ or ‘Support & Information’ tabs above, for more detail on specific services.
Quick links:
Breastfeeding support app LatchAid is offering a FREE 3 month trial
NEW Termly Newsletters available for all Childcare providers and Early Years Settings
For information on feeding your baby/infant when they have Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) resulting in Bronchiolitis click here.
Latest information on the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy RCOG Guide and NHS video or video advice in 5 south Asian languages
Child Health Clinics – face-to-face clinics for parents and carers by appointment only
Our virtual groups and classes both live and recorded
NEW – Empowering Parenting Programme
Young people can access support from our Chat Health service
Families and Babies (FAB) offer a breastfeeding peer support service across Lancashire
What is ORCHA? ((The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications)
ORCHA is a Health Care Application Platform that carry out independent and impartial reviews of health and care related apps and uses a combination of manual and automated assessment processes to scour mobile app marketplaces for applications that can be used safely within clinical settings. The primary focus will be for our 0-19 LHYPFS Health Care Practitioners and non-clinical teams to signpost service users to the ORCHA platform via the LCC website and recommend health care app(s) that will support them in the management of common health conditions, whilst being confident that they are quality assured app(s) in accordance with ORCHA assurances.
What are the benefits?
The benefits of using the ORCHA digital platform will be to aid improving health solutions by accessing app(s) in specific areas such as weight management, mental health & emotional wellbeing, stress management, breast feeding etc and to be able to share the information simply with our service users.
https://lancashirecountycouncil.orcha.co.uk