7th August 2025
We are delighted to launch bookings for our annual iHV Leadership Conference ‘Leading Health Visiting: Creating the Future’ which will be held on Wednesday 3 December 2025 at The King’s Fund, 11 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN – with options to join us in-person or online, to give you flexibility.
Our annual health visiting Leadership Conference has become the highlight of the health visiting calendar, providing a forum to learn together, share excellence and hear the latest policy, practice and research.
This year’s iHV Leadership Conference brings together health visiting practitioners and leaders from all four corners of the UK. What unites us is our shared ambition to ensure that all babies, children and families are supported to thrive. We also share similar challenges, with a ‘burning platform’ for change to build better services, designed to tackle the poor state of child health and unacceptable inequalities in families’ access to healthcare, experiences and outcomes across the UK.
At the iHV, we believe in a better future and that change is possible! With growing awareness of the importance of prioritising the earliest years of life – and the focus of healthcare shifting towards prevention and public health – health visiting’s time has come! But it will require strong leaders across the UK to make the most of the opportunities and lead health visiting into the future. Alongside bold and courageous leadership, we must be driven by the best evidence to build better services that have the needs of babies, children, families and communities at the heart of all that we do.
Our carefully selected programme this year is centred on four key pillars of leading change through:
- Getting it right from the start – better services by design
- Leading health visiting policy across the UK
- Workforce matters
- A focus on child development – supporting all children to thrive
Each keynote session features a fantastic line up of high-profile speakers and we thank all of them for prioritising their time to share their expertise with us. We are delighted to be hosting a Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Midwifery Officer (CNO/CMidO) panel again, representing the four UK nations, with:
- Duncan Burton | Chief Nursing Officer, England
- Karen Jewell | Chief Midwifery Officer, Wales
- Caroline Keown | Chief Midwifery Officer, Department of Health, Northern Ireland
- Sonia Glendinning | Nursing Officer, Department of Health, Northern Ireland
- Awaiting | Scotland Representative
The panel will be discussing their strategies for health visiting and strengthening professional leadership.
Some of our prestigious speakers also include (but are not limited to):
- Sally Hogg, Associate Director, Programme and Impact, The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood: ‘Working together to shape the future: driving shared understanding and action on what matters most for babies, young children and their families’
- Dr Clea Harmer, Chief Executive Sands: ‘Getting it right for bereaved parents and families’
- Felicity Gillespie | Chief Executive, Kindred Squared: ‘Starting reception’
- Alison Morton | CEO, Institute of Health Visiting; ‘Leadership in Health Visiting’
- Dr Karen Whittaker, Senior Education and Workforce Lead, Institute of Health Visiting: ‘Advanced Practice’
Options
Join us in-person:
You will get to enjoy the exceptional facilities at The King’s Fund in the heart of central London, with the opportunity to connect with practitioners and health visiting leaders from across the UK. You can meet our exhibitors in the break times and enjoy the very best of London in the festive season.
Unable to join us in person:
You can still join us online and be part of the conversation from the comfort of your own setting through live streaming and interactive real-time Q&A to influence the discussions.
Whether you join us in the heart of London or from the comfort of your home, you can expect a truly enriching and connected experience.
Extra discounts and concessions are available for iHV members, iHV Fellows, early booking and group bookings. Our Early Bird offer ends on 2 October 2025.
We hope you can join us!
