Gateshead

Our services

The Growing Healthy Gateshead 0 to 19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP) Service is an integrated service for families, expectant mothers, children and young people that offers interventions from the pre-natal stage up to the age of 19.

HDFT leads on the delivery of this service, with a focus on working across services and organisational boundaries to improve public health outcomes.

In Gateshead, we provide a Family Nurse Partnership and HENRY Service alongside our 0-5 Health Visiting Service and 5 to 19 School Nursing Service. For further information about the specific services that can be accessed in your area, please click here.

How the Great Start in Life Foundation impacts our local community

The Great Start in Life Foundation will help children, young people and families throughout Gateshead to enhance the Health Visitor and School Nursing services we provide, to ensure the children and young people who access these services have a Great Start in Life. We fund specialist equipment, training and services, going above and beyond the provision of the services for children, young people and their families to help enhance treatment and facilities for all within Gateshead.

Our work benefits service users, their families and our workforce throughout the local area and we rely on the support of the community to raise funds. From “Stepping Up for GSIL” by taking on a marathon to having a local tea, coffee and cake morning, every effort you make will have an impact on the children, young people and their families across Gateshead.

Through your support, we have been able to distribute care packages to colleagues, enhance the environment and experiences of service users as well as distribute lots of fantastic Sparkle Awards to our teamHDFT colleagues that have gone above and beyond for our wonderful service users. So far, the Great Start in Life Foundation has been able to provide packs to our Gateshead 0 to 19 Team to support their Hopes for Health focus groups for children and young people.

If you are part of a community group, school, Brownies or Cubs pack, or you just want to get a group of friends together to fundraise for us and would like more information about how you can get involved, please get in touch.