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Leading Health Visiting:
iHV Leadership Conference
Join the discussions - be part of the solution - at iHV Leadership Conference 2025
This year's annual iHV Leadership Conference 'Leading Health Visiting: Creating the Future' will be held on Wednesday 3 December 2025 at The King's Fund, 11 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN - With options to join us in-person, or online, to give you flexibility.
This year’s iHV Leadership Conference brings together health visiting practitioners and leaders from all four corners of the UK. What unites us is our shared ambition to ensure that all babies, children and families are supported to thrive. We also share similar challenges, with a ‘burning platform’ for change to build better services, designed to tackle the poor state of child health and unacceptable inequalities in families’ access to healthcare, experiences and outcomes across the UK.
At the iHV, we believe in a better future and that change is possible! With growing awareness of the importance of prioritising the earliest years of life - and the focus of healthcare shifting towards prevention and public health - health visiting’s time has come! But it will require strong leaders across the UK to make the most of the opportunities and lead health visiting into the future. Alongside bold and courageous leadership, we must be driven by the best evidence to build better services that have the needs of babies, children, families and communities at the heart of all that we do.
Our annual health visiting Leadership Conference has become the highlight of the health visiting calendar, providing a forum to learn together, share excellence and hear the latest policy, practice and research.
Our carefully selected programme this year is centred on four key pillars of leading change through:
Getting it right from the start – better services by design
Leading health visiting policy across the UK – with four nations CNO panel
Workforce matters
A focus on child development – supporting all children to thrive
Each keynote session features a fantastic line up of high-profile speakers. We are delighted to be hosting a Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Midwifery Officer (CNO/CMidO) panel again, representing the four UK nations – the panel will be discussing their strategies for health visiting and strengthening professional leadership.
Whether you attend in person or online, our hybrid format enables everyone to have the opportunity to join the discussions, shape the conversation, and have your questions answered.
We hope that you can join us!
Conference Aim:
Conference Aim:
The conference will provide delegates with an opportunity to explore leadership in action, using examples from practice to strengthen health visiting across the UK for the benefit of all babies, children and families.
Learning objectives:
Learning objectives:
Provide information and knowledge on policies, research and practice that impact on early life, health and family wellbeing, focused on public health priorities to improve health and reducing inequalities.
To learn from speakers with lived experience and leading experts on the importance of tackling health inequities, and health visiting’s advocacy role in addressing the wider determinants of health.
To hear the Chief Nursing Officers’ strategies for health visiting in all four UK nations, and the importance of leadership in nursing to strengthen prevention, population health and health equity.
To engage delegates in the development of ideas about using policy to support progressive health visitor service provision for the benefit of all babies, children, families and communities.
To illustrate through research, innovation and practice examples, health visitor leadership in action – taking the best to the rest.
Facilitate examination and debate of what a health visitor workforce can achieve with the right people in the right roles and with the right professional development opportunities.
Provide space and networking opportunities to share practice, supporting a culture for learning that enables workforce development and the next generation of inspirational leaders to thrive.
To gain CPD points to support NMC revalidation.
This conference is designed for anyone focused on prevention and early intervention to improve health and tackle health inequalities during pregnancy, postnatally and early childhood (for babies, children, families and communities):
Health visitors
Health visiting leaders and aspiring leaders
Commissioners
Policymakers
Researchers
Academics
Leaders from public health nursing in the UK or further afield
Government officials
Third sector organisations and wider system partners working with babies, young children, families and communities.
In-person delegates will receive 5 CPD hours, including 1.5 hrs of participatory learning
Online delegates will receive 4 CPD hours, including 30 mins of participatory learning
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