Welcome to iHV Insights – our webinars run just for our members.

These regular one-hour webinars aim to provide an easily accessible option for CPD and an opportunity to learn from leading experts in their field. All live sessions will be interactive and you will have the opportunity to ask questions.

The sessions will be of interest to frontline health visitors and student health visitors, as well as service leads, commissioners and wider members of the health visiting team.

Following each live session, the following will be made available to members on the links below:

• Webinar recording
• PDF of the slideset
• Record of Attendance/Reflection template to download and complete, just enter your name and the date that you joined the live iHV Insights or watched it online. Please note that this is a self-certification form, and you are accountable for accurately reporting your attendance alongside the iHV Insights Learning Record/reflection section that can be used as part of your revalidation evidence. Please ensure you download your certificate whilst available, for revalidation purposes. 

Please note that these are resources for iHV members only – Login using your password to see and gain access to the iHV Insights webinar materials. 

Resources will be accessible for 18 months after each webinar, in line with our review of keeping up-to-date resources. 

If you’re not a member, please join us to get access to all of our resources.

The iHV is a self-funding charity – we can only be successful in our mission to strengthen health visiting practice if the health visiting profession and its supporters join us on our journey. We rely on our membership to develop new resources for our members. So do join us now!

Our next iHV Insights event:

Public health role in reducing A&E attendances – book here
Date: Thurs 16 January 2025
Time: 15:30-16:30

Tackling increasing demands on urgent services is a national priority as too many patients are waiting too long in overcrowded A&E departments across the country. Our iHV report published in December 2023 showed that the rate of children aged 0-4 years attending A&E in England has increased by 42% in the last 10 years. A large proportion of these attendances did not require hospital treatment and were for non-urgent conditions (for example, minor illnesses, feeding problems and parental distress due to infant crying), suggesting that they could be managed and supported by other means, including health visitors in the community.

At this Insights event we will explore health visitors’ public health role in reducing A&E attendances. We will hear the latest national data and context of 0-4-year-olds attending A&E – Why are rates increasing? Who are the high users? And what role can health visitors play in reducing A&E attendances?

We have a fantastic line up of inspirational speakers, all focused on the public health role in reducing A&E attendances:

• Honorary Professor Damian Roland, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Urgent and Emergency Care System Clinical Director
• Georgina Mayes, iHV Health Visiting Professional Lead (Quality and Policy)
• Kate Walters, Divisional Director of Nursing & AHP’s, Children & Family Services and CAMHS

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Future dates for your diary

2025

We are delighted to announce our iHV Insights dates for 2025 – keep a note of them in your diary and check back soon for topics and booking details!

• 16 January, 15:30-16:30 – ‘Public health role in reducing A&E attendances’ – book here
• 20 February, 15:30-16:30 – ‘Safeguarding: Bruising in Non-Mobile Infants – Accidental, Medical or Non-Accidental?’ – book here
• 20 March, 15:30-16:30
• 17 April, 15:30-16:30
• 19 June, 15:30-16:30
• 17 July, 15:30-16:30
• 21 August, 15:30-16:30
• 18 September, 15:30-16:30
• 16 October, 15:30-16:30
• 20 November, 15:30-16:30

* Please note, these dates are subject to change. Whilst we’d like to publish topics in advance, we will confirm those closer to the time to ensure that they are the topics that are current. When booking your member place, go to the booking page and 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 select your ticket, submit your details and proceed to checkout. On the day of the event, you will be automatically emailed the link to join the webinar.

Previous 2024 iHV Insights – see recordings below

• 25 January 15:30-16:30 – When the worst happens: Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC)
• 29 February 15:30-16:30 – Gross motor skills: discussing gross motor development in babies and young children
• 28 March 15:30-16:30 – Working together to safeguard children 2023 – implications for 0-19 practice
• 25 April 15:30-16:30 – Not just pink, blue and yellow: assessing ethnically diverse babies
• 23 May 15:30-16:30 – Scary Thoughts and Secret Fears: supporting parents with intrusive thoughts in the perinatal period
• 15 August 15:30-16:30 – Tongue Tie – it’s not clear cut
• 26 September 15:30-16:30 – Launching iHV UK Preceptorship Framework for Health Visitors
• 24 October 15:30-16:30 – Supporting families experiencing poverty
• 21 November 15:30-16:30 – Launch of the iHV Motor Development Toolkit

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