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 2 years 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:

• Lessons We Can’t Ignore: Translating Evidence on Black Maternal Health into Health Visiting Practice, Thursday 17 September 2026, 15:30-16:30 – book here

In this webinar, we will be considering the findings from a vast number of reports that have exposed the issues of healthcare services continuing to fail Black mothers and their families. As health visiting teams, our families cannot afford for us to think that the issues Black women and their families face are only in maternity and neonatal settings. We need to understand this learning and look at how we can make changes to our services to drive change and improve the experience of and outcomes for Black mothers and their families. 

To help us explore this topic, we will be joined by leading experts who will help us translate this national maternity and neonatal learning to local health visiting practice. Those with lived experience will share the human impact behind these reports and numbers. They will explain the importance of co-design when designing and changing service delivery to combat the current failings. 

Alison Morton OBE, CEO, iHV, will co-chair the session with Prof. Gina Awoko Higginbottom MBE, Emeritus Prof Ethnicity and Community and Health, Co-Director ICCHNR, Health Visitor and Midwife 

We will hear presentations from:  

• Prof. Gina Awoko Higginbottom MBE. Gina will be presenting “From Evidence to Action: Addressing Inequalities in Black Maternal Health”. She will explore why inequalities in Black maternal health demand urgent attention, summarise the latest evidence and national developments, and consider what this learning means for health visiting teams and the families they support.
• NHS Race Health Observatory will be sharing the work they are currently involved in for tackling racism in health care. As part of their session, they will be sharing resources they have developed to support practitioners in both their professional and service development.   
• Susan Ibuanokpe, Antenatal Educator, Maternal Health Advocate and Peer Researcher. Susan will be sharing her lived experience of health visiting and how she now uses her voice to drive change as a maternal health advocate, and more recently as a peer researcher. 
• David Midwinter, Community Practice Educator, Health Visitor, Midwife. David will be sharing how training has impacted his knowledge, understanding and practice when working with different communities – and how he has used co-design with local communities to tailor health visiting services to their needs and helping to establish local interprofessional working groups that have positively impacted local communities, staff knowledge and service delivery.
• Join the conversation – there will be a Q&A session with all speakers at the end of the webinar 

Due to the breadth and depth of presentations, please note this webinar will be longer than usual – lasting 1.5 hours. 

Book here

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Future dates for your diary

See our iHV Insights dates for 2026 – keep a note of them in your diary and check back soon for topics and booking details!

2026

• 17 September, 15:30-16:30 – Translating Evidence on Black Maternal Health into Health Visiting Practice – Book here
• 22 October, 15:30-16:30
• 19 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 2026 iHV Insights – see recordings below

• 22 January, 15:30-16:30 – The Refresh of the Healthy Child Programme
• 26 February, 15:30-16:30 – The Generation Study: Genomics in action
• 26 March, 15:30-16:30 – Strengthening Safeguarding Practice: Professional Curiosity and Confident Challenge
• 23 April, 15:30-16:30 – Little Sparks, Big Starts: how health visiting can promote baby brain development
• 18 June, 15:00-16:30 – iHV Insights Xtra: Spot the Signs. Change a Life: The important role of health visiting in early identification of SMA
• 16 July, 15:30-16:30 – iHV Insights: Safer Sleep
• 20 August, 15:30-16:30 – iHV Insights: Strong Starts in Communication: Early Identification and Support for Every Child

Login using your member password to access iHV Insights webinar materials via the dropdowns on the pink plus signs below.

The webinar recordings on this page are provided for individual educational and informational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV). The information in these webinars and associated materials was accurate and peer-reviewed at the time of publication. However, evidence and best practice may change over time, and advice should always be tailored to individual circumstances. The inclusion of references, content, or links from external organisations does not imply endorsement by the iHV. The iHV does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and cannot accept liability for its use. Please always exercise your own professional judgement.

Please note: Webinar recordings are available for up to 2 years from the original event date. If you would like access to a webinar beyond this period in our archive, please contact [email protected].