Our Mission
The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) is an independent charity, professional body and Centre of Excellence – established to strengthen the quality and consistency of health visiting for the benefit of all babies, children, families and communities, enabling them to achieve their optimum level of health and to reduce inequalities.
Our Values
In the context of deteriorating child and family health, and growing recognition of the importance of prevention and early intervention, we are impatient for change. We courageously challenge inequalities in outcomes and healthcare provision in the earliest years of life.
- We believe in a better future and that change is possible. Improving public health outcomes for babies, children, families and communities is at the heart of health visiting practice. We focus our efforts and work with partners to influence policies affecting health, and act as a voice for our profession. And we won’t stop!
- We believe that health visiting is an important part of the solution to improving public health outcomes for babies, children, families and communities. When appropriately resourced, health visiting provides a vital infrastructure of support that is central to improving health and reducing inequalities.
- We are committed to ensuring the highest standards of education, learning and development, innovation and research, and professional leadership, to support evidence-driven practice and enable world-class health visiting. We know that health visiting leaders flourish in an environment of academic and professional excellence.
- We are committed to the active promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in everything that we do. We want to enable an organisational culture that values diversity and we are committed to eliminating unlawful discrimination.
