iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2025

Healthier Beginnings

Call for Abstracts

Want to be part of our fantastic conference next year?

Call for abstracts for iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2025 is now open!

Submit your abstract for our iHV Evidence-based Practice conference “Healthier Beginnings” which will be held at King’s House Conference Centre in Manchester on Thursday 8 May 2025.

With a new government and changes in nurse leadership across many UK nations, we are entering a new era for child and family health in the UK. With change, there is also opportunity – and as a profession, health visitors across the UK will be leading our profession into the future. We believe in the power of health visiting innovation, research, and evidence-based practices to create a brighter, healthier future for all babies, children and families – and the impact that we have is magnified when we come together and learn from each other.

Be part of our conference platform in 2025 – join local, national, and international experts and speakers and share your cutting-edge developments in health visiting practice, innovation and the latest research to address health inequalities and improve health outcomes for babies, children and families.

What are the benefits of presenting at the iHV conference?

It’s an excellent opportunity for you to:

Raise your own profile as a speaker at a UK-wide conference
Raise the profile of your organisation and showcase your work
Connect, collaborate and learn from other practitioners working in the field of health visiting and family public health
Add your experience of presenting to your CV and boost your career

Top-scoring abstract authors have the chance to present their work as a concurrent session speaker, or even a plenary talk in the main auditorium (you can indicate your preferences – allocation will depend on scoring and topic selection).

What are the presentation opportunities?

A short oral breakout session presentation
An oral concurrent presentation
A plenary keynote presentation

Abstract timeline:

Submissions: The abstract submission deadline is 7 October 2024.
Notifications: After an iHV peer-review process, participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for either oral keynote/concurrent presentation, or an oral breakout presentation, by 24 October 2024.

We look forward to reading your abstracts and hearing about your practice innovations and research! Any questions – please email [email protected].

iHV | Research Networking Event

iHV | Research Networking Event

This is open to all members.

Special guest Professor Ruth Endacott, NIHR Director of Nursing & Midwifery, will be speaking at our next Research Network.

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Login with your iHV member email address and password – you must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, you will be able to see the booking link below on this page.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

iHV | SCPHN Student Networking Event

iHV | SCPHN Student Networking Event

More details to follow.

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Login with your iHV member email address and password – you must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, you will be able to see the booking link below on this page.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

iHV Insights | Launch of the iHV Motor Development Toolkit

iHV Insights | Launch of the iHV Motor Development Toolkit

This webinar is on Thursday 21 November 2024 (join from 3:15pm to allow a prompt start) 3:30pm to 4:30pm.

This is open to all members.

More details to follow.

How does this event align to the 2022 NMC Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting?

Attendance at this event and engagement with the iHV reflection template will support you with demonstrating CPD activities that align to the 2022 NMC Standards for Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting.

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Login with your iHV member email address and password – you must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, click on the “+” symbol below to reveal the “Register now” button.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

iHV Insights | Health visiting supporting families experiencing poverty

iHV Insights | Health visiting supporting families experiencing poverty

This webinar is on Thursday 24 October 2024 (join from 3:15pm to allow a prompt start) 3:30pm to 4:30pm.

This is open to all members.

More details to follow.

How does this event align to the 2022 NMC Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting?

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Login with your iHV member email address and password – you must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, click on the “+” symbol below to reveal the “Register now” button.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

iHV Insights | Introducing the iHV Preceptorship Framework for Health Visitors

iHV Insights | Introducing the iHV Preceptorship Framework for Health Visitors

This webinar is on Thursday 26 September 2024 (join from 3:15pm to allow a prompt start) 3:30pm to 4:30pm.

This is open to all members.

More details to follow.

How does this event align to the 2022 NMC Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting?

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Login with your iHV member email address and password – you must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, click on the “+” symbol below to reveal the “Register now” button.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

iHV Insights | Tongue Tie – it’s not clear cut

Calling all members – bookings are now open for our August iHV Insights webinar – ‘Tongue Tie – it’s not clear cut’.

This webinar is on Thursday 15 August 2024 (join from 3:15pm to allow a prompt start) 3:30pm to 4:30pm.

This is open to all members.

Tongue tie (also known as ankyloglossia or restricted lingual frenulum) is caused by a short membrane under the tongue which can restrict movement and function. It may not cause any problems, but in some cases, it may cause feeding difficulties. However, not all tongue ties are the cause of feeding problems.

Tongue tie is thought to affect approximately 1 in 10 babies, and NHS data indicates it is on the increase with more parents seeking support and tongue tie divisions (frenotomy) for their babies. Health visitors and skill mix teams are ideally placed to support families and their babies with feeding difficulties and connect them with appropriate services for further assessment and support, but it’s not clear cut. There are significant gaps in research on this topic, with further research needed to inform practice. As a result, across the UK there are wide variations in service provision within the NHS, criteria for referral, waiting times for assessment, views on treatment and follow up, and this is creating much discussion.

At this Insights event, we continue the discussions. Those involved in research, service delivery and a user of the service will discuss and share their knowledge and experience to support health visiting practice.

How does this event align to the 2022 NMC Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting?

Attendance at this event and engagement with the iHV reflection template will support you with demonstrating CPD activities that align to the NMC (2022) Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN Health Visiting, in particular:

Sphere of Influence C: Promoting human rights and addressing inequalities: assessment, surveillance and intervention; C.HV2.
Sphere of Influence D: Population health: enabling, supporting and improving health outcomes of people across the life course; D.HV8.
Sphere of Influence F: Leading and collaborating: from investment to action and dissemination.

Chairs

Amanda Holland, iHV Professional Services Lead
Helen Smith, Infant Feeding Co-ordinator and BFI Project Lead, Swindon 0-19 Public health Nursing Service

Speakers;

Phyll Buchannan – Breastfeeding Network Tutor and Supervisor. Patient and public involvement representative and co-investigator on the FROSTTIE RCT.
Sarah Winspear Health Visitor and Infant Feeding Lead, Redcar and Cleveland, and Laura Paterson, Specialist Midwife Infant Feeding Lead, South Teesside, present on the development and implementation of a tongue tie clinic and share evidence of early outcomes.
Rosie Duck, parent with experience – shares personal experiences of her baby’s tongue tie, management, treatment and outcomes.

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Once you have logged in, click on the “+” symbol below to reveal the “Register now” button.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

iHV Annual Leadership Conference 2024

We are delighted to announce that our annual iHV Leadership Conference will be taking place on Wednesday 4 December 2024 – save the date!

This year’s conference will be held at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, Holborn, London.

Look out for further details of our exciting programme, coming soon!

PIMH In Focus Conference: Dismantling the Barriers – collaborative approaches to perinatal mental health care

We are delighted to announce the launch of our 6^th annual Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Conference ‘Dismantling the Barriers: collaborative approaches to perinatal mental health care’, taking place on Thursday 19 September 2024 as a half-day virtual conference.

Anyone can experience mental health problems during pregnancy or after having a baby. Without adequate support these problems can impact negatively on short and long-term outcomes for the whole family. Stigma and fear of child removal remain significant barriers to families seeking support for perinatal mental health concerns. Some families are at greater risk of experiencing poor mental health, particularly where they face multiple disadvantages and systemic inequalities. They’re also less likely to be offered the care they need.

Evidence suggests that improved professional competence, closer multi-agency working and training, and collaboration with parents from diverse backgrounds can improve outcomes for families experiencing poor perinatal mental health, particularly where multiple adversity exists.

This conference will focus on raising awareness of families whose perinatal mental health needs are less well met and understood. It will be suitable for all practitioners working with families in the perinatal period as well as service leads, commissioners, researchers and policy makers.

We are delighted to have expert speakers sharing their experiences about:

Young parent families
Gypsy Roma and Traveller families
Families with mothers in prison
Asylum-seeking families

By considering recommendations from recent research, reflections on best practice examples and powerful accounts from parents, we’ll think about how we can work together to improve experiences and dismantle barriers for these families in receiving equitable, high quality perinatal mental health care.

If you are passionate about improving the emotional health and wellbeing of all families, then join us for what promises to be a dynamic and inspiring event!

BOOKINGS OPEN NOW!

Go to our conference website to find out more details and how to book your place

iHV | Practice Education Networking: Meeting the NMC standards of proficiency for SCPHN-HV – with special focus on Genomics

iHV | Practice Education Networking: Meeting the NMC standards of proficiency for SCPHN-HV – with special focus on Genomics

Join us at our Practice Education Networking (PEN) event on 22 October 2024, 09.30-11.30am.

This session specifically links to NMC Standards of proficiency for SCPHN spheres B and D core standards and HV specific standard D.HV1:

B.10 critically appraise the evidence that informs new innovations in public health programmes, including genomics, and evaluate early success measures and impact on population health outcomes
D.2 recognise and accommodate any future developments in the application of genomics into their SCPHN practice to support prevention and early intervention in the health of the population across the life course
D.HV1 demonstrate specialist knowledge and understanding of infant and child anatomy, physiology, genetics, genomics and development when undertaking programmed health assessment and development reviews

How to book

Our booking process has changed,

Login with your iHV member email address and password – you must have ‘validated’ your membership in order for this to work.

Once you have logged in, you will be able to see the booking link below on this page.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.