What is the HPB Health Booklet?
In official HealthHub pages, the booklet is called the Child Health Booklet, or CHB. Parents commonly refer to it as the HPB Health Booklet because it is linked to Singapore's child health, immunisation, and school health services. It records important health information from birth and is meant to be updated across child health visits.
HealthHub also has a digital Children's Health E-Services section. Treat the digital version as a companion to the physical booklet, especially for viewing immunisation history, logging growth, and tracking developmental milestones.
What parents use it for
- Birth and newborn details: birth information, newborn screening notes, and key early records.
- Growth tracking: height, weight, head circumference, and BMI or growth chart information as your child grows.
- Developmental milestones: checklists for areas such as social, fine motor, language, and gross motor development.
- Immunisation records: vaccination entries and due checks, alongside the records submitted to HPB's National Immunisation Registry.
- Allergy and clinic notes: information that helps doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals understand previous care.
Where to refer
What to bring for child health visits
For vaccination, well-baby, polyclinic, paediatric, or school-health follow-up visits, bring the physical booklet if you have it. Also prepare your child's HealthHub records, any overseas vaccination documents, medication or allergy information, and a short list of concerns you want to discuss.
If your booklet is older, HealthHub explains which updated booklet, checklist, or addendum you should download. If you lose the hard copy, refer to HealthHub for the latest downloadable version and check with the listed public healthcare institutions about replacement or purchase of a hard copy.
When to ask a doctor
Ask a doctor or nurse if your child's growth measurements are repeatedly outside the expected range, if a milestone checklist raises concerns, if immunisations are delayed, or if you are unsure how to record an allergy or previous treatment. The booklet is a record and guide, not a substitute for clinical review.