health visiting programme
Many health professionals and organisations are using social media- in particular Twitter, to build professional networks and enhance learning. On the 1st October 2015, the responsibility for commissioning of the Children’s Public Health for 0 to 5 year olds will …
In Greater Manchester we are committed to ensuring at all our children are ready for school and ready for life. Our revised Early Years strategy ‘Starting Well’ will build in the successes and strengths of the New Delivery Model and …
Health visitors teams have a crucial role in improving the health and wellbeing of children and families. Services throughout the country have been transformed over the last 4 years to improve access, outcomes and experience, which will reduce health inequalities. …
One of our ambitions for healthcare public health is to make the ‘vital visible’. This means being able to show the amazing work that health care professionals are doing to prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing and resilience. So …
As a Health visitor many years ago, it was always part of my role in supporting parents; we supported parents with their relationships. We never had any specific training but intuitively felt it was important. We now have more evidence …
In my capacity as an iHV maternal mental health champion I have been able to train health visitors locally. I have also been able to improve my knowledge of maternal and infant mental health, which has been beneficial to my …
I believe that health visiting is at its best when it’s building strong communities and community assets, as this provides important health benefits for many people at once. For example, consider the public health benefit from health visitor initiatives such …
The health visiting service has been transformed in recent years to improve access, experience, outcomes and contribute to reducing health inequalities. This is the story of what's been achieved through more health visitors and renewed vision. Follow @VivJBennett or https://vivbennett.blog.gov.uk/
During our recent 'weeks' under the hashtag #healthvisiting we've been show-casing some of the excellent work being done by health visitors across the country as part professional practice and leadership to transform services. I'm delighted to say that we have now also published …
Last night we celebrated the conferment of 150 health visitors as Fellows of the Institute of Health Visiting. The very successful national programme for Health Visiting completes its work in June. Local leadership and expertise is vital for successful, sustainable services. I …
