Child & Family Health

Healthy Start Vitamins

Find out details of the Healthy Start vitamins project in Hertfordshire - this includes a list of all distribution centres (including 35 children's centres).

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Where to go if you have an urgent health problem

Should I take my child to A&E ?

In Hertsmere we are undertaking a pilot project to try to keep children away from Accident and Emergency Departments if there is a service that can better deal with their health care needs. The reason for doing this project is that:

• It can be difficult to control the sights and sounds that children are exposed to in Accident and Emergency departments, which can result in psychological trauma
• There is a range of service that can offer alternative management of urgent health care needs
• Most children who attend Accident and Emergency departments do not receive any active treatment.

For urgent but non-emergency situations please consider thealternative services and make it clear to the person answering the telephone that you are concerned about your child. For more information please see details below:

• Borehamwood (pdf, 100k)
• Elstree Radlett, and Little Bushey (pdf, 100k)
• Potters Bar (pdf, 100k)

Where is my local Child Health Clinic?

Drop In Baby/Child Health Clinics

Watford & Three Rivers

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Finding an NHS Dentist

To find an NHS dentist in Hertfordshire phone 01707 369645 or email dentalappointments@hertfordshire.nhs.uk
To find a dentist outside normal office hours phone 03000 333 224

Family Planning Clinics

Family planning clinics can give you advice on contraception, including condoms and the pill and can offer free pregnancy tests and the morning after pill. Many clinics can also give you a contraceptive injection, or can fit you with contraceptive implants or the coil. These will prevent you from getting pregnant but won’t protect you from STIs.
Family planning clinics are located at: 

CLINIC	CLINIC TIMES
Elstree Way Clinic Elstree Way, (next to library) Borehamwood WD6 1JT Phone: 0208 359 8500	Tuesday 6.30 – 8.30pm Saturday 10am – 12noon
Garston Clinic St.Albans Road, (Dome roundabout) Garston North Watford WD24 7RZ Phone: 01923 281399	Monday & Wednesday 6 – 8pm
Potters Bar Clinic Potters Bar Community Hospital Barnet Road Potters Bar EN6 2RY Phone: 01707 653286 ext. 4059	Tuesday 7 – 9pm
Watford Sexual Health Centre Watford General Hospital (3rd on left from main entrance) Vicarage Road Watford WD18 0HB Phone: 01923 217709	Thursday 4.30 – 6.30pm Friday 1.30 – 3.30pm

For more information about other Family Planning clinics go to www.hertsfordshire.nhs.uk

Baby Café Local in Hertsmere

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