Bookings now open for iHV EBP Conference 2024

We are delighted to announce that we will be back in Manchester at King’s House Conference Centre on 3 July 2024 for this year’s iHV Evidence-based Practice (EBP) Conference ‘A Healthier Future’ – with options to join us in-person in Manchester, or online, to give you flexibility.

The focus of this year’s EBP conference is on addressing health inequalities, a topic that has never been more poignant, with more babies and children experiencing poorer outcomes and living in poverty than ever before. How can we ensure a healthier future, where all babies and children can thrive? How can we use the best available evidence and research to reduce health inequalities and strengthen health visiting practice?

Our conference will provide a platform for local, national, and international experts and speakers to come together and share excellence in health visiting practice, public health, innovation, and the latest research focused on improving outcomes and reducing inequalities for babies, children and families.

Speakers

We have a fabulous line up of speakers, including but not limited to:

Dr Allison Felker, Senior Researcher, MBRRACE-UK – who will share the findings from the MBRRACE-UK Report with a focus on inequalities in women’s health.
Dr Ngozi Edi-Osagie, National Clinical Director neonatal Critical Care, NHS England, Arnie Puntis,Research and Policy Manager, NHS Race and Health Observatory and speakers from the RHO Maternal and Neonatal Health Advisory Group (to be confirmed) – who will be presenting on tackling inequalities for babies, children and families with black and brown skin.
Professor Helen Bedford– who will share her expertise on the world of childhood vaccinations, highlighting the current measles surge and falling rates of MMR vaccine uptake.
Dr Erica Gadsby and Professor Sally Kendall– who will present their RREHOPE study – an evaluation of the impacts of the pandemic (and service work arounds) on health visiting.
Alison Morton,CEO, Institute of Health Visiting – speaking about radical health visiting and driving change.
Michele Lawrence,Head of Safeguarding, Chief Public Health Nurse Office, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities – who will be presenting about the new Working Together to Safeguarding Children 2023 Guidance.
Ana María Narváez, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, The Food Foundation –who will be sharing The Food Foundation’s annual flagship report, The Broken Plate, and sharing vital metrics revealing the health of our food system and its impact on our lives.
Sharin Baldwin, Senior Health Visitor Research Lead, iHV/MECSH, and Hilda Beauchamp,iHV Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Lead – who will be sharing the findings from the Alarm Distress BaBy Scale (ADBB) feasibility study.
Plus, more to be announced soon!

Our conference programme also includes a wide range of interesting topics and presentations drawn from the highest scoring submissions to our call for abstracts from researchers and leaders in practice. We will be adding their details to our programme soon, once final confirmation is received.

See our fabulous ticket offers!

Don’t miss our special early bird ticket rates, available until 19 April 2024 – book your place today! In addition, group bookings of 5 or more will receive a 15% discount off the total order when booked at the same time.

Find out more about our programme, speakers and how to book

Bookings now open for iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2023

We are delighted to announce that we will be back in Manchester at King’s House Conference Centre on 21 September 2023 for this year’s iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference.

The focus of this year’s EBP conference is health equity. How can we ensure a brighter future, where all babies can thrive and live healthy lives? How can we use the best available evidence and research to promote health equity and strengthen health visiting practice?

Long-standing healthcare disparities and inequities have been illuminated and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent cost-of-living crisis. Systemic inequities, such as poverty and economic disadvantage are preventing babies, children, and families from achieving optimal health, leading to avoidable differences in health outcomes.

We very much look forward to welcoming you to this popular event.

Don’t miss our special early bird ticket rates, available until 30 June – book your place today! In addition, groups bookings of 5 or more will receive a 15% discount off the total order when booked at the same time.

Programme & Speakers

Our conference programme brings together local, national, and international experts and speakers who are focused on strengthening health visiting practice. The presentations and workshops will reflect the breadth of health visiting practice, within a “whole system” public health approach, with the aim to equip health visitors with new knowledge and skills to address key challenges in prevention and early intervention work with babies, children, and families.

Featured speakers include:

Professor Flora Douglas, Professor of Public Health, Robert Gordon University – Maternal and infant food insecurity
Greg Fell, Director of Public Health in Sheffield – Nanny State
Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Professor of Integrated Community Child Health Population, Policy & Practice Dept, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health – Homelessness research
Nicky Brown, Senior Nurse and Public Health Specialist BCYP Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care – Pan-London SCPHN workforce development
Sally Shearer OBE, Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel – Messages for clinical practice
Nicola Jay, Reducing urgent care admissions – a whole systems approach
Mike Hurst, Parent Voice – Lived experience of homelessness
Vicky Gilroy, iHV Head of Projects & Evaluation – Building Research Capacity
Victoria Jackson, iHV Senior Programme Manager – Projects and Evaluation – Strep A, Flu and Respiratory Illnesses
Sally Shillaker, iHV Practice Development Lead – Genomics
Alison Morton, iHV CEO
Vicky Gilroy and Victoria Jackson, iHV Projects Team – Cardiovascular disease, using the Family Partnership Model
Plus, more to be announced soon!

Find out more and book

iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference – September 2022

We had a wonderful day at iHV’s annual Evidence-based Practice Conference – Together, Fairer, Stronger – #iHVEBP2022

The iHV EBP conference, held on 15 September 2022 at King’s House Conference Centre in Manchester, was our first face-to-face conference since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was fantastic to see so many delegates in person!

The focus of this year’s conference was on reducing health inequalities and strengthening integrated working. We explored the learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as opportunities to promote health visiting and its role in tackling current public health priorities and improving outcomes for babies, children and families.

Programme and Speakers

Our packed programme brought together local, national, and international experts and speakers, all focused on strengthening health visiting practice through sharing the latest evidence, research, and practice examples.

Our inspirational and passionate speakers included:

Tash Oakes-Monger, National LGBT Project Manager
Kenny Gibson, Deputy Director for NHS Safeguarding
Jim McManus, President Association of Directors of Public Health UK, and Director of Public Health
Alison Morton, Executive Director, iHV
Clare Worgan, Head of Training and Education, Sands
Dr Karen Whittaker, Education and Workforce Lead, iHV
Sammie McFarland, CEO and Founder, Long Covid Kids Charity
Pilar Cloud, Project Lead, Action Cerebral Palsy
Louise Wileman, Health Visitor and CONI Co-ordinator
Dr Kate Abbott, Clinical Psychologist
Dr Lisa Marsland, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Martha Sercombe, Specialist Perinatal Mental Health, Health Visitor
Jo Claessens, BBC Tiny Happy People
Annalea Staples, Dental Therapist, University of Leeds
Dr Elizabeth Camacho, Health Economist, University of Manchester
Plus many, many more!

A big thank you to all our speakers, presenters and exhibitors for helping to make the day such a success!

View the programme here

Conference poster winner

Many congratulations to our best poster presentation winner: Tracey Long – with her poster Transition to adoptive parenthood: a conceptualisation

Best poster presentation winner: Tracey Long receiving her award from Alison Morton

Some of the Feedback

“It was my first iHV conference and it was much better than I expected. Having gone through covid it was lovely to hear people’s positive attitudes to health visiting and the information that was shared by all.”

“It was a fantastic conference, the quality of the speakers and range of topics was excellent. I feel reinvigorated in my purpose and have made some useful connections from other areas to link in with to progress programmes of work. Inspiring, welcoming and meaningful. Well done iHV!”

“Thank you for producing such an informative conference. The passion for the role shone though for me and inspired me as student at the start of my health visiting career.”

“Great venue, great speakers. Thank you for reinvigorating my HV Practice!”

Presentations

Please note that the conference presentations are available to conference delegates only and they will have been sent the password required to access this page:

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Tweets from #iHVEBP2022

For those of you who could not either join us on the day or could not follow the #iHVEBP2022 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.

Call for abstracts for iHV Evidence-based Practice conference 2022

Would you like to share your practice developments or research at our 2022 annual evidence-based practice (EBP) conference – “Together | Fairer | Stronger” on 15 September 2022 at King’s House Conference Centre in Manchester?

If so, we would love to hear from you! The EBP conference will be a fabulous event for you to showcase your work whilst sharing learning and innovations in practice.

We welcome submissions that support the overall theme of reducing health inequalities and strengthening integrated working from researchers, and educators. We know that many practitioners are also leading innovative improvement projects in practice, and we want to provide an opportunity for you to showcase and disseminate your findings to a wider audience.

We are keen to showcase best practice examples of effective integrated working and would also be especially delighted to receive applications from community nursery nurses and other health visiting associate practitioners. Non-UK applicants will also be considered if their work can demonstrate transferable learning.

Why should I submit an abstract?

To showcase your work, disseminate your findings to a national audience and raise the profile of your organisation
To enhance research in health visiting
To inform others about positive, innovative approaches to improve evidence-based practice in health visiting and preventative public health work focused on families with babies and young children
To raise the profile and benefits of an effective health visiting service focused on reducing health inequalities

Abstract/conference themes:

We are inviting abstracts that support the overall theme of the conference: Reducing health inequalities and strengthening integrated working:

Improving access/ reducing inequalities: We are particularly interested in submissions that improve the experience and outcomes of health visiting service users who encounter obstacles accessing health care, and/ or people with protected characteristics, for example: people from minoritised ethnic groups; people with disabilities; LGBTQI+ women and people; families experiencing homelessness; domestic abuse; substance misuse problems; mental illness and mental health problems; and safeguarding.
Integration: Innovations in health visiting practice or service delivery models from across the UK that can demonstrate impact within integrated/ ‘whole system’ public health approaches to addressing health inequalities.
Themes may also include, but are not limited to current priority public health topics:
- Transition to parenthood, including preconception care
- Breastfeeding
- Perinatal mental health (mothers, fathers, and partners)
- Infant and child mental health
- Healthy nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight
- Managing minor illnesses, building health literacy and prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- Reducing unintentional injuries
- The uptake of immunisations
- Primary prevention and health promotion in oral health
- Child development 0-5 years, including speech, language and communication and school readiness
- Sleep
- Children with developmental disorders, disabilities, and complex health needs
- Tobacco, alcohol, and substance misuse in the perinatal period
- Healthy couple relationships
- Teenage parenthood

Abstract Submissions

The abstract submission deadline is 4 April 2022.

Please see Abstract Submission Guidelines and Timeline for further details on format and how to submit.

We are very excited that our EBP conference will be face to face. It will provide a great opportunity to showcase local work and network with colleagues and national experts from across the country. It really is a conference that can’t be missed!

Our Booking system is due to go live on 11 March so, in the meantime, please hold the conference date in your diary – 15 September 2022 at King’s House Conference Centre in Manchester.

Call for abstracts for iHV Evidence-based Practice conference 2022

The iHV is delighted to offer you the opportunity to present your practice or research at our 2022 annual evidence-based practice (EBP) conference – “Together | Fairer | Stronger” on 15 September 2022 at King’s House Conference Centre in Manchester

We are pleased to announce that this will be our first face-to-face conference since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are all looking forward to being able to meet again, network and share ideas together.

Our conference programme brings together local, national, and international experts and speakers who are focused on strengthening health visiting practice through sharing the latest evidence, research, and practice examples.

The focus of this year’s conference is on reducing health inequalities and strengthening integrated working. We will explore the learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as opportunities to promote health visiting and its role in tackling current public health priorities and improving outcomes for babies, children and families.

Alison Morton, Executive Director iHV, commented:

“We look forward to welcoming you to Manchester in September 2022 to explore the latest evidence-based practice and research on key public health priorities for health visiting. Everyone is welcome as we come together again, in person, to share best practice and research – let’s build on the present to help shape the future of health visiting and tackle inequalities. We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible.”

Abstract Themes/Topics

We encourage submissions that support the overall theme of the conference to reduce inequalities.

We are interested to hear from researchers, educators and clinicians who have led work in the following areas from across all nations of the UK (non-UK applicants will also be considered and should demonstrate transferable learning):

Integration: Innovations in health visiting practice or service delivery models that can demonstrate impact within integrated/ ‘whole system’ public health approaches to addressing health inequalities. We are keen to showcase examples from across all nations of the UK.
Improving access/ reducing inequalities: We are particularly interested in submissions that improve the experience and outcomes of health visiting service users who encounter obstacles accessing health care, and/ or people with protected characteristics, for example: people from minoritised ethnic groups; people with disabilities; LGBTQI+ women and people; families experiencing homelessness; domestic abuse; substance misuse problems; mental illness and mental health problems; and safeguarding.
Conference themes may include, but are not limited to, the current priority public health topics for health visitors and health visiting skill-mix teams:

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

We would be delighted to receive applications from community nursery nurses and all other health visiting practitioners who support babies and young children. We will be holding a special concurrent session for these valued roles.

Submissions: The abstract submission deadline is 4 April 2022.

See Abstract Submission Guidelines and Timeline for further details on format and how to submit

Book 5 conference places for the price of 4!

Our two-day, virtual Evidence-based Practice Conference – Looking ahead to a fairer future (#iHVEBP2021) takes place on 21 and 22 September, and we are delighted to offer a special rate for group bookings to enable as many of you to join us at the event.

Book 5 places for the price of 4* (available on the 2-day rate only and not applicable to students or retired members)!

This special group offer also applies to the earlybird prices (both member and non-member rates), so why not take advantage of our earlybird rates before they disappear! Get together with 4 of your colleagues and book your 5 places for the special price of 4 – a great saving of 20% per ticket!

* This discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount offer. This discount is not available on Retired or Student member tickets.

How to book this special group offer

If you are members, please have your individual membership numbers available to use for the first 4 places as the code to get your member delegate rates or the non-member rate will apply, and then enter the code 5for4EBP2021 to get the 5th place for free! Book today!
If you are non-members, please book your first 4 places, and then enter the same code as above 5for4EBP2021 to get the 5th place for free! Book today!

If you have any queries, please contact [email protected]

Don’t forget – our earlybird offer ends at 5pm on Friday 27 August

Go to our conference website to book your places today!

About our two-day, virtual Evidence-based Practice Conference – Looking ahead to a fairer future

21 and 22 September 2021 | Online

Our programme focuses on sharing best practice examples and research to improve health visiting practice. This conference will provide a much-needed time of reflection and learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on babies, young children and their families, and the services that support them.

We have a fabulous line up of speakers, including

Representative from The Royal Foundation
Professor Gabriella Conti
Professor Jane Barlow
Dr Ruth Oshikanlu
And many more!

Check out the Evidence-based Practice Conference website to find out more including all our fabulous speakers, programmes and how to book your place.

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Bookings now open for virtual iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2021!

We are really excited to be delivering iHV’s 6th Evidence-based practice conference, “Looking ahead to a fairer future”, a 2-day virtual conference being held on 21 and 22 September 2021.

Our conference programme brings together local, national and international speakers focused on sharing best practice examples and research to improve health visiting practice. This conference will provide a much-needed time of reflection and learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on babies, young children and their families, and the services that support them. In particular, the conference will focus on reducing inequalities and this will be explored through a variety of different practice-related topics. What have we learnt from the pandemic? And how can we focus our efforts as we look ahead to the future with a shared ambition to build a fairer society?

Health visitors provide a vital safety-net for all families which is essential if we are serious about reducing inequalities.

Programme & Speakers

Our programme brings you local, national and international speakers. The presentations and workshops will reflect the breadth of health visiting practice, within a “whole system” public health approach, with the aim to equip health visitors to address key challenges in prevention and earliest intervention work with babies, children and families.

Featured speakers include:

Representative from The Royal Foundation
Professor Gabriella Conti, University College London
Professor Jane Barlow, University of Oxford
Dr Ruth Oshikanlu MBE, Independent Health Visitor and Executive Director, Goal Mind
Sally Hogg, Head of Policy and Campaigning, Parent-Infant Foundation

See all our fabulous expert speakers

Peruse our conference programme

Tickets

Book with our special Earlybird rates for members and non-members

Available until 27 August 2021

How to book

If you are an iHV Associate member, SCPHN Student member or a Retired member ensure you have your membership number ready to use as a discount code to secure your iHV member discount rate and go to the online booking link below.

If you are an iHV member but you do not know your membership number, please email [email protected]

If you are not a member, but would like to take advantage of our member rates, please join us today!

Go to our online booking system to book your earlybird ticket

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

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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

Bookings now open for iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference 2019

Bookings are now open, with member discounts and earlybird rates, for the iHV Evidence-based Practice Conference – Health for All Children Now – taking place in Manchester on 9 May 2019.

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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.

This is a fantastic opportunity to attend the iHV’s evidence-based practice conference – Health for All Children Now.

This inspiring conference will include leading professionals and experts speaking on a number of different topics, including Professor Alan Emond, the new editor of Health for All Children 5th Edition.

Full programme details will be announced shortly.

This conference is the MUST-ATTEND event in 2019 for those interested in evidence-based infant and family public health and health visiting to come together to hear the latest guidance and recommendations. This will include but not be limited to health visitors, NHS employers, local authority commissioners and employers, government officials, third sector organisations, GPs, midwives, obstetricians, paediatricians, researchers and parents with lived experience. A limited number of places will also be made available to SCPHN students.

Date: 09:30 – 16:45, Thursday 9 May 2019
Venue: King’s House Conference Centre, King’s Church, Sidney Street, Manchester M1 7HB

Delegate prices

With special member rates and early bird prices, please book your place today to avoid disappointment!

	Earlybird Rate (until 29 March 2019)	Standard Rate (from 30 March 2019)
iHV Member	£95.00	£125.00
Non Member	£125.00	£165.00
SCPHN Student	£75.00	£75.00

Conference rate includes full attendance at the conference and includes all refreshments, lunch and delegate materials.

DON’T MISS OUT!! Book today to take advantage of our early bird rates – available until 29 March 2019.

ORGANISATIONAL DISCOUNT: Buy four delegate places for your organisation and get a fifth free! See our conference page for further details

For payment details (including options to pay by debit/credit card or by cheque/invoice), how to book and our Terms & Conditions, please see all details on our online booking system.

Book your place online today

Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to offer the opportunity to present your practice development or research at our evidence-based conference – Health for All Children Now.

Abstract submission deadline is 28 February 2019.

See call for abstracts on the conference page for further details

Call for abstracts for iHV evidence-based conference

We are delighted to offer the opportunity to present your practice development or research at our 4th evidence-based conference – Health for All Children Now (being held on Thursday 9 May 2018 in Manchester).

Abstracts will be considered on the following areas:

Maximising health visiting’s prescribing potential
Role of health visitors in immunisation
Encouraging optimal childhood nutrition
Promoting oral health and sugar reduction
Getting families active
Managing atopic conditions in early childhood
Early identification of childhood disorders
Early detection of speech, language and communication delay
Identifying and addressing non-specific learning difficulties
Innovation in safeguarding
Addressing domestic abuse in families
Innovation in promoting sleep
Effective working with couple relationships
Identifying and addressing mental health issues in pre-school children
Working with fathers
Working with excluded families
Addressing health inequalities
Promoting leadership in health visiting
Creating effective integration with the early years work force

Abstract Submission and Timeline

Abstract format:

The abstract should be no more than 250 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 poster.
Please submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document to [email protected].

Abstract Timeline:

The abstract submission deadline is 28 February 2019.
After an iHV peer-review process, participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for either oral presentation or or a poster by the middle of March.
Full guidance on the poster and oral presentation delivery format will be provided if your abstract is successful.

It is important that you book to secure your conference place on or before the final registration deadline for accepting your offer to present.

UPDATE 30 January 2019 – BOOKINGS ARE NOW OPEN