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:

‘Tongue Tie – it’s not clear cut’ – book here
Date: Thurs 15 August 2024
Time: 15:30-16:30

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.

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.

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Future dates for your diary

We are delighted to announce dates for our 2024 iHV Insights events – save the dates in your calendar and join us! Check back soon for topics and booking details.

• 15 August 15:30-16:30 – ‘Tongue Tie – it’s not clear cut’ – book here
• 26 September 15:30-16:30 – ‘Preceptorship – Launching iHV UK Preceptorship Framework for Health Visitors’ – book here
• 24 October 15:30-16:30 – ‘Supporting families experiencing poverty’ – book here
• 21 November 15:30-16:30 – ‘Child development. Launching iHV’s Motor Development Toolkit’ – book here

* Our iHV Insights are regularly scheduled. 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

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