Nursery World - Children's 'red books' start to go online from April

The ‘red book’, the paper-based personal child health record for under-fives, will be available online for London parents from April ahead of a national rollout.

The electronic version will be known as the eRedbook and is the UK’s first digital Personal Child Health Record.

It is part of the wider move to transforming the way technology is used to enable health professionals, parents and carers to share data via new electronic hubs.

Kenny Gibson, head of public health commissioning, NHS England, said, ‘It’s our role to begin offering every parent the opportunity of launching the electronic version of the red book. We know since the red book was launched by Harlow printing and the red book board, parents love the red book.

‘It’s a go-to place but historically it was always given in the delivery suite when mum had just pushed out baby, she was handed the red book and told to get on and understand it.’

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