Katy Tuncer is an entrepreneur and leadership coach, who has had a distinguished career, initially in the army, then the Metropolitan police, before working as a consultant in the sports industry when her path first crossed with that of Cheryll Adams. Most recently, Katy has been working as an executive-level coach to system leaders whilst developing new tools to support them. Katy is also the mother of four young sons. The board unanimously agreed that Katy was a very worthy recipient of the Institute’s award of Honorary Fellowship.
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Sarah Cole – Membership Engagement Officer
Responsible for:
- Management of corporate memberships
- Management and coordination of the iHV’s member benefit events
- Reviewing the membership journey to maximise the value for members
- Supporting quality improvement
In 2023, the iHV awarded Honorary Fellow awards to individuals who have served the iHV generously through their tenures on our Board as iHV trustees. At the iHV, we want to thank all our Trustees for the time, commitment and effort they bring to our organisation.
Jane Williams was awarded the Honorary Fellow award this year. Jane is regarded by many as one of the ‘giants’ of health visiting. She joined the Institute’s Board after running one of the most successful health visiting services in England – and generously shared her wealth of rich experience from her long career. Jane was a Trustee for nearly eight years and her tenure ended during the pandemic in 2021 – which meant we couldn’t celebrate all of Jane’s contributions in person as we had hoped. Some of Jane’s particular contributions were in helping the Board to understand how the Institute’s work could successfully dovetail with the needs of local health visiting managers, as well as with practice.
In 2023, the iHV awarded two Honorary Fellow awards to individuals who have served the iHV generously through their tenures on our Board as iHV trustees. At the iHV, we want to thank all our Trustees for the time, commitment and effort they bring to our organisation.
The first of these awards was conferred to Pamela Goldberg OBE who was the Chair of the iHV Board for 7 years, until her tenure came to an end in July this year. Prior to joining the iHV, Pamela had a distinguished career in both the commercial and voluntary sector, latterly as CEO of Breast Cancer Campaign. This wealth of experience was so valuable to our organisation which was only a few years old when Pamela joined as its Chair. During Pamela’s two terms at the helm of the iHV, the organisation has grown considerably into the successful organisation that it is today. Pamela has also overseen considerable change, with a new CEO and ways of working during the pandemic.
Professor Jane Barlow’s Honorary Fellowship is awarded in recognition of her ongoing support for our work over many years. Jane is a staunch and vocal advocate for early intervention – and a champion of health visiting – and has worked tirelessly with us at the iHV on numerous shared projects, including our current research partnership with The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood. We are particularly grateful for Jane’s ongoing contributions to our work in perinatal and infant mental health and her weight of support for our call for more Specialist health visitors in this field. Unfortunately, Jane was not able to join us during the evening to collect her Honorary Fellowship due to travel disruptions.
Professor Mitch Blair is Professor of Paediatrics and Child Public Health (Emeritus) at Imperial College London.
He has 41 years NHS practice in General and Community Paediatrics as a Consultant Paediatrician and recently retired in July 2023. Mitch is well-known to most health visitors as a co-author of “Health for All Children: 5th Edition” and proponent of robust implementation of the Healthy Child Programme for the benefit of all children.
Mitch is an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Health Visiting. Awarded in December 2019 in recognition of his early and continued support to both the Institute and the health visiting profession.
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Joleene Bradley – Operations and Systems Officer
Pippa Atkinson is a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). She works as a Health Visiting lecturer at the University of Lancashire where she is also the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) Lead for Health Visiting. Pippa has recently completed a PhD which was funded by a National Institute of Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration Northwest Coast (NIHR ARC NWC) studentship. For her empirical research, she undertook a narrative study to explore how women from different socio-economic backgrounds experience infant feeding care from UNICEF UK BFI Gold accredited midwifery and health visiting services.
