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#iHVLeadership2020 – virtually fabulous!

Wow, what a day at #iHVLeadership2020 on Tuesday 1 December!

Following the success of our first virtual conference in September this year, we continued our plans for our annual leadership conference “Leading with vision: Be brave, stay safe, have hope!” and moved the event online.

With over 400 delegates, this was our largest leadership conference ever! And we were delighted to have a number of very eminent speakers to share their updates, insights and innovations.

2020 has been a challenging year for health visitors as it has for everyone, but we wanted to mark the foundation of the iHV again with our annual morale-raising leadership conference. The important event provided the opportunity at the end of the year to refresh, reflect and discuss new thinking for the year ahead.

We are receiving some amazing feedback:

“The virtual conference felt quite seamless, a varied amount of speakers with different expertise and a good opportunity to ask any questions”

“#iHVLeadership2020 really showing how to deliver a virtual conference with passion, drive and determination. I will forever consider the service as being the glue😊 @andrealeadsom”

“Fabulous virtual event – well done”

“I thought it was well presented and executed”

“Good opportunity to be part of a large event with high profile speakers during a difficult time.”

“Fabulous to have @andrealeadsom speaking about Early Years Healthy Development Review- Investing early has the greatest impact- “we need to stop the current ‘Wild west’”- Prevention is not just kinder, but it’s an awful lot cheaper than cure #iHVLeadership2020”

“enjoying my first iHV Leadership Conference 2020..fantastic info so far on recognition and early intervention of SMA and the important role of health visitors, household name and hv hero up next @MichaelMarmot  @VivJBennett @iHealthVisiting”

“Great listening to  @VivJBennett   lessons learnt re- covid and redeployment. Need for other professionals to have awareness of how skilled Health visitors are. Fantastic viv! #iHVLeadership2020  #healthvisitor #healthychildprogramme”

“@CheryllMa closes a fantastic #iHVLeadership2020 with an address that shares some wonderful snippets from a long and very successful health visiting career and leaves us with wise words…‘health visitors can save the world!’ @iHealthVisiting👏🏼”

“So many takeaways from today’s fabulous #iHV conference. Lots and lots to share, hard to know where to begin so starting with health and well-being of staff😊”

Conference recordings and presentations

Recordings from the day’s proceedings and presentation pdfs are now available for conference delegates – via our conference website.

To access the conference recordings webpage, please log in using your email address (as used to attend the conference) and your personal conference reference number (the same number you used to join the online conference).

Go to Conference recordings webpage to log in

If you didn’t manage to grab a ticket to join us at the event, don’t worry! You can purchase access to listen to and watch all the speakers via our online conference platform – just purchase your pay to view online ticket to access all the recordings.

Pay to view – Buy your access to the recordings here today!

Social media

Have a quick spin through all the tweets collated from day in the Wakelet link below – so much to see! So, don’t miss out

Bookings now open for iHV Leadership Conference 2020

We’re thrilled to announce that our annual Leadership Conference “Leading with vision: Be bold, stay brave, have hope!” will be held as a virtual conference – and bookings are now open!

Our virtual Leadership conference 2020 (#iHVLeadership2020) will be taking place online on: Tuesday 1 December – 09:00 – 14:00.

2020 has been a challenging year for health visitors as it has for everyone, but we want to mark the foundation of the iHV again with our annual morale-raising leadership conference.

This important event provides the opportunity at the end of the year to refresh, reflect and discuss new thinking for the year ahead. This year we are thrilled to have a number of very eminent speakers lined up to address our delegates, also the voices of parents and practice to share recent innovations.

The networking sessions during our September conference were especially popular so we are making them available again. There is even the opportunity to undertake some exercise during the break with our 5 minute Conference Zumba sessions!

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director, The Institute of Health Equity (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)
  • Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP, Chair of the Government’s ‘Early Years Healthy Development Review’
  • Professor Philip Wilson Director, Centre for Rural Health
  • Professor Viv Bennett, Chief Nurse and Director Maternity and Early Years, Public Health England
  • Elizabeth Begley, Senior Nurse, Health Visiting and Early Years, Homerton Health Visiting Service
  • Dr Sharin Baldwin, Clinical Research Fellow and Clinical Academic Lead, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and London North West NHS Healthcare Trust
  • Vicky Gilroy, Projects and Evaluation lead, Institute of Health Visiting
  • Cheryll Adams Executive Director, Institute of Health Visiting

Pricing and How to Book

We are delighted to offer special earlybird rates – and even better rates for our Members and Fellow Members (available until Friday 6 November) plus our great 4 for 3 offer (buy 3 places and get the 4th place for free!):

Take advantage of our earlybird delegate rates – just book your place before 6 November 2020.

To access the special earlybird rate for our members, please join us today and ensure that you have your membership number ready to use as your member discount code to secure your reduced delegate rate.

To take advantage of the 4 for 3* offer (available for member, non-member and earlybird rates. Not available for student rate), book 3 and use code 4for3leadership2020 to get 4th place for free
*can be used for member, non-member and earlybird rates. Not available for student rate

Click here for the full programme, further details and to book your place

 

Creating Healthy Children, COVID and beyond – pay to view available

 

 

 

We are receiving some amazing feedback from our first ever virtual conference:

Thank you for delivering a fantastic conference in these challenging times and thank you for all that you do to support Health Visitors and health visiting practice.

Many congratulations for such a fabulous conference. A pleasure to join and much less exhausting than attending in person 😊

I really enjoyed the presentations and discussions. I’m sure people have gone away feeling very motivated

Thank you so much for a wonderful online conference – I found it so interesting. Great speakers.

I wanted to extend my thanks to the whole iHV team for an excellent conference. It worked very well online and I am looking forward to viewing the other sessions that I didn’t sign up for at a later date. The speakers were excellent and the content was exactly what was needed for discussion at present.

“Creating Healthy Children, COVID and beyond”, originally scheduled to take place in May, was held as a virtual conference on 22 and 23 September 2020.

These are challenging times but we didn’t want you to lose out on all the wonderful content we had pulled together for our conference in May.

Across two mornings, we showcased the latest research and practice developments in health visiting with a fantastic line-up of expert speakers, great e-posters and some fab networking.

If you didn’t manage to grab a ticket to join us at the event, don’t worry! You can still listen and watch all the speakers and view the e-posters via our online conference platform – just purchase your pay to view online ticket to access all the recordings (access is available until the end of October 2020).

Pay to view – Buy your access to the recordings here today!

 

Not made your mind up yet to pay to view?

Take a look at the fabulous programme and expert speakers  – you can navigate the event website using the “burger button” in the top right-hand corner.

Have a quick spin through all the tweets collated from the two mornings in the Wakelet link below – so much to see! So, don’t miss out – pay to view the conference recordings today!

 

Bookings now open for our virtual Evidence-based practice conference!

We’re thrilled to announce that our annual Evidence-based Practice Conference “Creating Healthy Children, COVID and beyond”, originally scheduled to take place in May, will be held as a virtual conference – and bookings are now open!

Creating Healthy Children, COVID and beyond will be taking place online on the following days and times:

  • Tuesday 22 September –  08:45 – 14:00
  • Wednesday 23 September –  08:45 – 14:00

We are absolutely delighted to be presenting our fourth evidence-based practice conference for health visitors and those who work with them, and our first online conference. These are challenging times but we didn’t want you to lose out on all the wonderful content we had pulled together for our conference in May.

You will have access not only to national speakers, but to a raft of great poster presentations, a conference exhibition, and networking opportunities and more throughout the day.

We know that one of the challenges of watching things online is maintaining concentration, so the programme has been designed to help you to stay engaged with a full one-day programme spread over two days.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Professor Ros Bryar, Professor Emeritus Community and Primary Care Nursing
  • Professor Viv Bennett, Chief Nurse and Director Maternity and Early Years, Public Health England
  • Jeanelle de Gruchy, President, Director , Association of Directors of Public Health and Population Health, Tameside Council
  • Siobhan Freegard, Founder, Channel Mum
  • Linda Magistris, CEO, The Good Grief Trust
  • Jane Barlow, Professor of Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation Director of Research, University of Oxford
  • Helen Bedford, Professor of Children’s Health ,UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  • Dr Helen Crawley, Director, First Steps Nutrition Trust
  • Merle Davies, CEO, A Better Start, Blackpool
  • Patrick Myers, Assistant Director, Children Services seconded to Department for Work and Pensions, Dorset Council
  • Tim Hobbs,Chief Executive, Dartington Service Design Lab
  • James McTaggart, Early Years Psychologist, Highland Council
  • Dr Gabriella Conti, Associate Professor, UCL Economics and Institute of Fiscal Studies

We are delighted to offer special earlybird rates – and even better rates for our members:

Take advantage of our earlybird delegate rate – just book your place before 28 August 2020.

To access the special earlybird rate for our members, please join us today and ensure that you have your membership number ready to use as your member discount code to secure your reduced delegate rate.

Click here for the full programme, further details and to register your place

iHV postpones Evidence-based Practice conference 2020

COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak and iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2020

We’re very sorry to announce that our annual Evidence-based Practice Conference “Creating Healthy Children, 2020 and beyond”, which was scheduled to take place on 12-13 May 2020 in Manchester, will now be postponed in light of public health concerns caused by COVID-19.

We are very disappointed that we will be unable to showcase the latest research and practice developments in health visiting as planned – we had a fantastic line-up of speakers, poster presentations and exhibitors as part of the global celebration of Florence 2020.

We would like to thank everyone who had committed to join us at the conference and hope to be in a position to announce alternative arrangements in the near future – please keep a close eye on our website and social media channels for further information.

Bookings now open for our Evidence-based Practice conference 2020!

Creating Healthy Children, 2020 and beyond

12 and 13 May 2020, Manchester

Due to popular demand, our evidence-based practice conference in May 2020 is now two days! And bookings are now open!

Our conference programme brings together local, national and international speakers focused on sharing best practice examples and research to improve health visiting practice for babies, children and families. The presentations and workshops will reflect the breadth of health visiting practice and service development reflected primarily in the 15 High Impact Areas and 8 Key Principles set out in our recently published “Vision for the Future”.

The conference will also coincide with the 2020 anniversary celebrations of Florence Nightingale’s birth and we are keen to incorporate advances in public health nursing in recognition of Florence’s founding role in this field of nursing.

Being held in Manchester, this conference will provide you with the latest guidance and recommendations relating to infant and family public health from leading professionals and experts!

Book early to avoid disappointment – Our last 5 conferences have sold out!

Earlybird tickets (for iHV members and non-members) are available until 20 March 2020, so please book early to secure your ticket at this highly popular event! Limited student places also available. 

Please book early to secure these great discounts and avoid disappointment. 

Go to our online booking system to book your place today

We have an exciting line up of speakers at “Creating Healthy Children, 2020 and beyond”  – confirmed speakers include:

  • Jeanelle De Gruchy – DPH Tameside and President of the Association of Directors of Public Health
  • Linda Magistris – CEO of The Good Grief Trust
  • Merle Davies – CEO of A Better start, Blackpool
  • Tim Hobbs – Chief Executive, Dartington Service Design Lab
  • James McTaggart, Early Years Psychologist, Highland Council
Click here for further details

We always seek to ensure our activities comply with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative – our events are not and never will be sponsored by the formula milk industry. 

Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to offer the opportunity to present your practice development or research at our evidence-based conference – Creating Healthy Children, 2020 and beyond.

Abstract submission deadline is 17 February 2019.

Please see call for abstracts on the conference page for further details

Call for abstracts – Creating healthy children: 2020 and beyond

iHV Evidence-based conference: Creating healthy children: 2020 and beyond

12 and 13 May 2020, Manchester

The iHV is delighted to offer you the opportunity to present your practice development or research at our latest evidence-based conference – Creating healthy children: 2020 and beyond.

This 2-day conference is being held on 12 and 13 May 2020 in Manchester. International delegates will be made very welcome.

Our conference programme brings together local, national and international speakers focused on sharing best practice examples and research to improve health visiting practice for babies, children and families. The presentations and workshops will reflect the breadth of health visiting practice and service development reflected primarily in the 15 High Impact Areas and 8 Key Principles set out in our recently published “Vision for the Future”.

The conference will also coincide with the 2020 anniversary celebrations of Florence Nightingale’s birth and we are keen to incorporate advances in public health nursing in recognition of Florence’s founding role in this field of nursing.

Abstract topics

Abstracts should be centred on public health, families, health visiting and relationships and aim to address at least one of the key elements of excellence in practice: personalised, collaborative, effective, evidence-driven, responsive, accessible, fairer and professional autonomy.

Abstracts will be considered on the following areas:

  1. Transition to parenthood, including preconception care
  2. Breastfeeding
  3. Perinatal mental health (mothers, fathers and partners)
  4. Infant and child mental health
  5. Healthy nutrition, physical activity and healthy weight
  6. Managing minor illnesses, building health literacy and prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
  7. Reducing unintentional injuries
  8. The uptake of immunisations
  9. Primary prevention and health promotion in oral health
  10. Child development 0-5 years, including speech, language and communication and school readiness
  11. Sleep
  12. Children with developmental disorders, disabilities and complex health needs
  13. Tobacco, alcohol and substance misuse in the perinatal period
  14. Healthy couple relationships
  15. Teenage parenthood

Abstract Submission and Timeline

Abstract format:

  • The abstract should be no more than 300 words and provide an overview of your practice development or research, clearly indicating the impact on health visiting practice.
  • Please structure your abstract as follows:
    • aim
    • objectives
    • method
    • results
    • conclusion
    • recommendations
  • Also, please tell us whether you would like to present this as an oral presentation or e-poster.
  • Please submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document to [email protected]

Abstract Timeline:

  • The abstract submission deadline is 17 February 2020.
  • After an iHV peer-review process, participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for either oral presentation or a poster by 9 March 2020.

Full guidance on the e-poster and oral presentation delivery format will be provided if your abstract is successful.

Update – 20 January 2020 – Bookings now open!

It is important that you book to secure your conference place on or before accepting your offer to present and at the latest by 1 April 2020.

Earlybird tickets (for iHV members and non-members) are available until 20 March 2020, so please book early to secure your ticket at this highly popular event! Limited student places also available. 

Please book early to secure these great discounts and avoid disappointment. 

Go to our online booking system to book your place today

What a fabulous Leadership conference!

We had an incredibly inspiring and motivating day at iHV’s annual Leadership Conference yesterday!

iHV’s Leadership for the future Conference (#iHVLeadership19), held on 3 December 2019 in London, was a fantastic opportunity for health professionals across the country to find out the latest in leadership in health visiting practice among like-minded professionals and peers, as well as finding out the latest on our evidence-based blue print to rebuild health visiting services – ‘Health Visiting in England: A Vision for the Future’.

Tickets were sold out and we had a full house of 200 who listened to our inspirational and passionate speakers:

  • Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Professor of Advocacy for Children and Childhood, at Nottingham Trent University and former First Children’s Commissioner for England
  • Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE, Chief Scientific Officer NHS England, national lead for Genomics
  • LEGO Professor of Play, Dr Paul Ramchandani
  • Professor Jim McManus, Vice President, Association of Directors of Public Health
  • Pauline Beirne, National Lead AHP CYP, Scottish Government
  • Sally Hogg, Head of Policy and Campaigning, Parent-Infant Foundation
  • Angie Emrys-Jones, a mum with loved experience
  • Caroline Palmer, ChatHealth
  • Julie Carter-Lindsay, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Alison Morton, Director of Policy and Quality, iHV

In addition, our Guest speaker of our annual lecture was:

  • Professor Mitch Blair, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Public Health, Imperial College London.

A big thank you to all our speakers, presenters and exhibitors for helping to make the day.

See the conference programme

Some of the amazing feedback we have already received:

“Thank you iHV for the fantastic Leadership Conference yesterday. Inspirational speakers who delivered with humility. I am ready for the disruption”

“So much to share & debate. Reflecting this morning on inspiring colleagues, conversations and opportunities to take forward. Thank you”

“Thank you @iHealthVisiting for hosting such an inspiring and invigorating iHV Leadership Conference.”

“Fantastic time out for reflection and updates from great speakers”

“En route home after the BEST day at @iHealthVisiting leadership conference. I don’t need a title to be a leader. Just the willingness to be disruptive and to ‘bang the bloody door down’ of anyone who isn’t willing to listen!!”

“Such a fab day. So much to think about. Thank you @Alison_Morton2 @CheryllMa and the team behind today’s #iHVLeadership19 conference in #London. Won’t lie, head is full but so much passion for the HV service is out there, we need to make sure we keep shouting about the work we do”

“Thank you @iHealthVisiting empowering day #iHVLeadership19 hearing inspirational speakers & opportunity to network.”

Photos

We have made a short video of some of the photos taken yesterday:

Tweets from #iHVLeadership19

For those of you who could not either join us yesterday or could not follow the #iHVLeadership19 hashtag on Twitter, we’ve collected and made a little “Wakelet” collection of the day’s tweets so you can follow some of what was shared. Please see below.

 

 

Leadership Conference 2019 – bookings now open!

Leadership into the Future

3 December 2019, London

We are delighted that bookings for this extremely popular event are now open!

Book early to avoid disappointment. Our last 3 conferences have sold out at least 4 weeks in advance. A large number of people unfortunately missed out on a place for our leadership conference last year.

We have an exciting line up of speakers at our leadership event this year and will be sharing our new vision for health visiting. Confirmed speakers include Professor of Play, Paul Ramchandani, Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE, Chief Scientific Officer NHS England, PHE Nursing Maternity & Early Years Directorate and Jim McManus, Association of Directors of Public Health.

Limited earlybird tickets (for iHV Fellows, iHV members and non-members) are available until 11 October 2019 or until they are sold out, so please book early to secure your ticket at this prestigious event! Limited student places also available. 

Please book early to secure these great discounts and avoid disappointment. 

Click here for further details

Go to our online booking system to book your place today

We always seek to ensure our activities comply with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative – our events are not and never will be sponsored by the formula milk industry. 

Inspiring day at PIMH Relationships Matters! Conference #iHVPIMH19

What an amazing day we had at iHV’s annual PIMH conference – Perinatal and Infant Mental Health: Relationships Matters! – #iHVPIMH19

Held on 10 September in London, the second annual iHV PIMH conference was in collaboration with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.  The conference created time to prioritise and place relationships at the heart of perinatal and infant mental health care. We shared, discussed and reflected together on the latest evidence, research and experiences of PIMH care in the context of relationships being fundamental to good parental and infant mental health.

Sold out several weeks ago, we had a full house of 200. “Inspiring, very interesting, thought provoking, insightful, really enjoyable, fantastic, hopeful, excellent” – just some of the feedback that we’ve received.

A big thank you to all our speakers, presenters and exhibitors for helping to make the day.

Go to conference programme

Photos of the conference

We have made a short video of some of the photos taken during the conference:

Tweets from #iHVPIMH19

For those of you who could not either join us yesterday or could not follow the #iHVPIMH19 hashtag on Twitter, we’ve collected and made a little “Wakelet” collection of the day’s tweets so you can follow some of what was shared. Please see below.