Press Releases

As Sport Relief announces their campaign to raise the profile of maternal mental health, the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) highlights the vital role that health visitors have in supporting parents with perinatal mental ill-health, yet they currently have insufficient time or capacity for this i...

Following the announcement that NHS England will invest an extra billion pounds a year to tackle mental illness, the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) is urging the government to specifically invest more into the first two years of life – arguing that this would reduce later expenditure on menta...

An open letter on the crisis in breastfeeding in the UK has been issued today, signed by midwives, health visitors, paediatricians, lactation consultants, breastfeeding counsellors, peer supporters, university researchers and others who work for professional organisations and charities that support ...

A mum of three boys who set up a national network of volunteer-led community activity groups for mothers to help over 1000 mums across England actively embrace motherhood together has been named a Point of Light by Prime Minister David Cameron. Katy Tuncer set up Ready Steady Mums - local volunte...

The new annual report from the Chief Medical Officer, ‘Health of the 51%: women’, highlights obesity as one of the biggest risks to women’s health, affecting all aspects of a woman’s life from birth, family planning, pregnancy and right through to menopause and later life. Dr Cheryll Adam...

The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) welcomes the cross-party manifesto that highlights the importance of acting early to enhance the outcomes for children. The relaunch of the 1001 Critical Days Manifesto, on Monday 14 December, brings the importance of early years care for children to the forefr...

A new report of pregnancy-related deaths shows that, while overall figures are falling, there is an urgent need to protect and improve training of all the relevant professional groups about perinatal mental illness, and particularly the speed with which women’s illness can progress. The report ...

The results from the Institute of Health Visiting’s State of Health Visiting Survey 2015 to find out today’s demands on health visitors will be shared with key figures from the world of health visiting and guests at the Institute’s third iHV annual celebration event being held in London on 7 D...

Dr Cheryll Adams, Executive Director of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), is named as one of the country’s most inspirational nursing leaders in the Nursing Times Leaders 2015. Announced at a reception in London on 30 September, the list includes 48 individuals who come from all aspects o...

Newly acquired programme to promote mums’ physical health and emotional wellbeing A new iHV survey of health visitors shows: 99%  say it is important for health visitors to encourage mothers to take part in physical activity 99%  of health visitors say exercise can help maternal wellbeing...