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Public Health England (PHE) is conducting an evidence review on social prescribing approaches for migrant populations in England in collaboration with University College London (UCL) and International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Social prescribing is a major component of the NHS England Long Term Plan and Universal Personalised Care. It is defined by the NHS as a method by which referrals from primary care professionals and local agencies, as well as self-referrals, are made to link workers, who in turn connect individuals with community, voluntary, statutory and other sector services intended to improve holistic health and wellbeing.

Social prescribing models can include:

direct referrals from primary health care, social care or local agencies made to link workers, facilitators, coordinators and navigators in the UK, who in turn assist individuals in reaching services and activities
self-referral to link workers, facilitators, coordinators and navigators in the UK, who in turn assist individuals in reaching services and activities
signposting from health care, social care or local agencies to services and activities

They would like:

information published between 1 January 2000 and 1 May 2020
unpublished information related to research carried out between 1 January 2000 and 1 May 2020, including any ongoing research
reports that summarise or collate migrants’ lived experiences, for example, organisational reports or internal evaluations of projects or services (the views, experiences and opinions of individual professionals, researchers, commentators or patients will not be included, however)

They are especially interested in the following outcomes for key area 2:

improved self-esteem and confidence
greater sense of control and empowerment
reduction in symptoms of anxiety and depression
improved knowledge and skills
improved social connectivity

This consultation closes at 5:30pm on 30 October 2020

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Today’s #HVWeek topic: The health conversation – nutrition, dental care, lifestyle and exercise, accident prevention, particularly the health of migrant and vulnerable groups.

Due to the pressure created by having less contact time, how do you ensure the right health messages reach families? It would be great to know how services ensure that vulnerable groups get good access to appropriate services and information.

Welcome back to Day 3 of national #HVweek

It is already Day 3 of national #HVweek17! We have really enjoyed seeing all your tweets and contributions so far this week, especially some of your contributions from children about what health visitors do. If you would like to submit a contribution of what your family thinks you do as a health visitor, please share on social media with #ProudtobeaHV or send it to us to share out.

Today’s theme focuses on health conversations and supporting health and lifestyle changes in families. With so much ground to cover and less contact time, how do you get alongside parents to ensure the right health messages reach families and really make every contact count?

To support your work in this area we are showcasing just some of our wide-ranging resources, including our Good Practice Points for working with minority groups. Why not take a look again at our e-learning, Good Practice Points, Voices blogs, videos and toolkits?

e-learning

Our two e-learning modules on Child Accident Prevention, developed with Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) and iHV Fellow Amanda Whelan, are free to access and designed especially for health visitors.

They are designed especially for health visitors, and are underpinned by research, policy and practice guidance for reducing unintentional injuries to children under the age of 5 in and around the home, as well as existing NICE guidelines on this topic.

Go to Child Accident Prevention e-learning Module 1

The iHV e-learning package on Disability Matters supports both newly-qualified and experienced health visitors in understanding some of the issues faced by families when they receive a diagnosis of disability or learning difficulty for their child/children.

Go to Disability Matters e-learning for health visitors

Good Practice Points (for members only)

Our Good Practice Points make excellent bite-sized CPD to update your practice, and reading and reflecting on them can count towards Individual Learning for your NMC revalidation. All our Good Practice Points are evidence-based, written by subject-specific experts and peer-reviewed prior to publication.

GPP - How to reduce accidents in babies and pre-school children

GPP - Dental Health for babies and children

GPP - Supporting the child's development

GPP - Safer sleep

GPP - Promoting independent sleep associations

Good Practice Points (GPPs): Working with Minority Groups (for members only)

We also have a series of Good Practice Points (GPPs): Working with Minority Groups which have been designed for Health Visitors (HVs), especially for student and newly qualified HVs and relate to the wide variety of diverse communities we encounter in modern day practice.

These include good practice points on working with a variety of diverse communities such as: FGM; Gypsy & Travellers; Chinese families; Special Needs; Homeless to name a few.

Go to GPPs: Working with Minority Groups

Blogs

For more inspiration read our refreshing Voices blogs from some inspirational and motivated practitioners, who share their practice and learning with us, including Trudi Law’s fantastic piece on Reducing Harm to Children from Unintentional Accidents (Homeless Families) or our pieces on the Ready Steady Mums initiative – our volunteer-led community-based socialcise programme for mums (and dads!)

Voices blog - Reducing harm to children from unintentional accidents (homeless families)

Voices blog - Helping children move and play

Voices blog - Ready Steady Mums - helping inactive mums to get active

Voices blog - Ready Steady Mums - why we think it works and what we've learnt

Voice blog - Setting up our Ready Steady Mums group in Walsall

Videos and Toolkits

Take a look at our videos and toolkits for community-based postnatal groups or building community capacity for more inspiration!

Video - Reducing accidents

First Steps postnatal group resource pack – This accredited First Steps postnatal group resource pack has been developed and piloted by health visitors in Walsall around the six high impact areas for health visiting. The overarching aim of First Steps is to increase social capital and improve self-efficacy for the attending parents, ultimately improving outcomes for children and families.

The course is accredited as a 6-week postnatal group course to be delivered by health visitors as the lead facilitators for the programme.

Go to First Steps postnatal group resource pack

Building Community Capacity – An Introductory Toolkit for Health Visitors – Health visitors require confidence to extend or renew their capabilities around building community capacity, taking advantage of social capital and resilience present in families and communities, and using the model for the development of the Community level of the service.

Go to iHV Building Community Capacity - An introductory toolkit for health visitors

Parent Tips

Please share our top tips for parents on reducing accidents – there are quite a few parent tips sheets so here’s a link to the main page:

Go to Parent Tips

Please note that some of these resources are available to iHV members only.

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!