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Health Visitor Conference 2017

  • HV Conference
    22nd August 2017
    9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Taking Care of Our Future

Hundreds of health visitors gathered for a conference celebrating the contribution they make to the future of children and families across Scotland.

The event – Taking Care of Our Future – was held in Glasgow on Tuesday August 22 and heard from a range of speakers including Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport Shona Robison and Chief Nursing Officer, Professor Fiona McQueen.

It brought together health visitors from across the country, with representatives from all health board areas attending.

A series of workshops was held covering topics such as the implementation of the universal pathway, infant nutrition and speech and language development.

The conference, which took place during national Health Visitor week, was jointly hosted by the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS), the Scottish Government, the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), and NHS Education for Scotland (NES).

The speakers’ presentations are available to download below in order of appearance.

Professor Fiona McQueen, Chief Nursing Officer of Scotland.

Fiona McQueen presentation

 

 

 

Shona Robison MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport

Video of the Cabinet Secretary’s speech will be available shortly

 

 

Bob Fraser, Health Advisor, GIRFEC

Bob Fraser presentation

 

 

Professor  Dame Sarah Cowley, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London

Sarah Cowley presentation

 

 

 

Professor Sir Hary Burns FRSE, Professor of Global Public Health

Harry Burns presentation

 

 

 

We asked a selection of those attending the event to speak about what they enjoy most about being a health visitor.  They also shared their views on the benefits and challenges of the Universal Pathway.  You can watch the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Using Institute of Health Visiting Resources to develop and strengthen your practice

Dr Cheryll Adams, Executive Director, Institute of Health Visiting

 

The Institute of Health Visiting was established nearly five years ago by health visitors for health visitors. It provides a one stop shop for evidence, training opportunities and other resources to support high quality health visiting practice across the UK. It is a charity, its core purpose being to strengthen the quality and consistency of health visiting services for the benefit of all pre-school children and families, and to reduce health inequalities. This interactive session will include a description of our many helpful resources and how health visitors can access and use them to strengthen their practice, and for CPD and revalidation.

The presentation is available to download here

 

Maternal and Infant Nutrition Framework

Linda Wolfson, National Maternal and Infant Nutrition Co-ordinator, Scottish Government

During this workshop we will explore:

  • What information is routinely collected in Scotland and is available for Health Visiting practitioners and their managers.
  • How the information should be interpreted.
  • How can we use this to drive improvement, not just in breastfeeding rates, but more importantly to improve the experiences of individual families and health outcomes for every child.

The presentation is available to download here

Speech, Language and Communication – Giving children the best start in life. A tool for Health Visitors

Jean Cowie, Educational Project            Manager, NES and Joanne Gibson, Project Manager, NES.

Using the principles of GIRFEC and the Universal Health Visiting Pathway (Scottish Government, 2015) this tool aims to support health visitors and   family nurses to profile and promote speech, language and communication development in children and their families.  Information on expected speech, language and communication development, and strategies and interventions to promote speech, language and communication are presented at the key stages of development as outlined in the Universal Health Visiting Pathway. In addition to being flexible and interactive, the resource is web-based allowing practitioners to access the tool on their computer, tablet or smart phone.

The presentation is available to download here

Implementing the Universal Pathway – Challenges and Barriers

Debbie Balshaw, Lead Nurse – Early Years, NHS Tayside     Rosemary Robertson, Associate Nurse Director, South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership  Liz Kearney, Interim Associate Director of Nursing, NHS Lanarkshire

A new national universal pathway for all children in Scotland and a re-focused model of working for health Visitors has been introduced incrementally across Scotland since October 2015 to strengthen consistent, seamless support and care for children and families. The implementation of this pathway gives recognition of crucial role of Health Visitors in the early years and that they make a real difference to families.

Join us at this workshop where you will have the opportunity to hear and learn from three NHS Boards on their approach and experience of implementing the universal pathway. The workshop will also share and engage with you on:

  • challenges and barriers faced
  • lessons learnt
  • future plans and to celebrate achievements

The presentation is available to download here

Achieving reliable implementation of the Universal Pathway with support of Quality Improvement in Practice

Kathryn Paterson, QI Advisor, Scottish Government

Delegates attending this interactive workshop will hear how improvement methodology has been supporting teams to achieve reliable delivery of the Universal Pathway. You will learn from the experience of teams who have used improvement methods to understand and improve processes to achieve delivery of a high quality health visiting service and impact on improved outcomes for children.

The presentation is available to download here

Engaging with Hard to Reach/Vulnerable Clients as a Health Visitor

Val Alexander, Clinical Nurse Manager/Family Nurse Partnership Service Manager, NHS Lothian

The requirement of the Health Visiting Service to work with families who are deemed ‘hard to engage’ has presented many challenges over the years. The re-focused service delivery model for health visiting through the universal pathway will provide the service an opportunity to strengthen therapeutic client relationships through strength based models of care delivery. What will this mean for Health Visitors in terms of ‘hard to engage’ clients.

At this workshop we will explore:

  • What do we mean by hard to engage – what are the barriers and enablers
  • Does professional style and Health Visiting approach influence client engagement?
  • What approaches can we learn from other services
  • How do we measure client engagement?
  • How do we recognise success?

 

 

 

 

 

                            

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