Institute of Health Visiting: How innovation is offering hope in health visiting

Earlier this year, we were pleased to meet with Nick Triggle, Reporter, and Alison Morton, CEO of IHV, to discuss how Health Visiting has changed over the last 10 years. Becky Price, Service Manager in our Hull 0-19 Integrated Public Health Nursing Service, was invited to take part in the discussion and share her own experiences having been a Health Visitor for over 25 years.

She said, “We’ve a really supportive commissioner in the council and have developed good relationships with other NHS and local government services. Over the last 10 years there have been challenges, not least the Covid pandemic, but prioritising the training and upskilling of our health visitors has allowed us to retain our workforce.”

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Institute of Health Visiting: How innovation is offering hope in health visiting | Local Government Association