Are Babies Health books the same everywhere?

[HelenInML]

Ok this is a daft question but can anyone tell me if the Child Health Record is the same everywhere in the UK?

My daughter's is an A5 landscape book with a red plastic cover. We're in Mid Essex PCT.

I haven't made it to a weigh-in in agers and I really want to take her to one, but we'll be in Dorset next week. I was wondering if I could take her to a walk-in baby clinic down there, and the book might be a giveaway and stop us from being able to get weighed.

Can anyone from Dorset identify whether their book is the same as I've described?

Thanks in advance,

Helen

I'm in the north east and my book is as you describe - I think they're national.

Hello there - the 'red book' is a national thing, but there are regional variations, eg, my DD was born in south London but we shortly moved to Hertfordshire and my HV took a while to work her way around it as there was a lot of stuff in there about TB. Saying that, I have been to a drop in clinic at my parents in Wiltshire and they were absolutely fine about it - I shouldn't worry

Thanks both. Sounds like I might get away with it then

Ours is yellow. (North East)