Medway Community Healthcare (MCH) provides a wide range of high quality community health services for Medway residents; from health visitors and district nurses to speech and language therapists and out of hours urgent care.
Please see below sources of support including groups and online advice for families in Medway:
If you need to seek advice or support please ring the Health Visiting duty line on 0300 123 3444
Medway families can now access some courses on the Solihull website ‘www.inourplace.co.uk’ for free. The courses are based on the Solihull Approach. An individual can register on the site and then access the courses using the codeword Invicta. Here is the list of courses ~ please note that the ‘Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’ & ‘Understanding your child’ are both offered in other languages.
These are the courses available:
Medway Community Healthcare offers a variety of parent education:
For advice on many of the common parenting questions visit www.nhs.uk
Moving onto solid foods
Toileting
Helping you get a better night's sleep - The Sleep Council
Baby sleep
Parenting - influencing your child's behaviour
Positive Parenting
Parenting Advice & Support
Dealing with Difficult Behaviour
And so to bed
Introducing solid foods
Toilet training
For information on attending one of these sessions please contact medch.childrenscommunity@nhs.net We also provide training for schools in relation to health conditions, if your school would like training on any of the following, speak to your school nurse or contact us on medch.childrenscommunity@nhs.net