Supporting parents to manage minor illnesses is a central function of health visiting. Health visitors are often parents’ first point of contact when they are concerned about their child’s health, providing a trusted source of advice and support.
iHV Resources
📃 Good Practice Points and Parent Tips
Developed in collaboration with topic experts, health visitors, and other professionals, our resources draw on the latest available evidence at the time of publication. Each resource is produced through a robust quality assurance process and peer reviewed to ensure accuracy, relevance, and strong alignment with health visiting practice.
iHV A&E project report: Understanding the rise in 0–4-year-old Emergency Department (ED) attendances and changing health visiting practice
(Dec 2023)
🎥 Film
External Resources
We encourage practitioners to use trusted resources in their work with families, to promote confidence, safety, and consistent guidance (with numerous web-based options and apps available, resource selection will be locally driven).
The iHV is proud to partner with Healthier Together, who has developed a wealth of high quality, evidence based resources to support the management of common childhood illnesses. These include information on ‘red/ amber/ green (RAG)’ symptoms rating, ‘when to worry and where to seek help?’ and safety-netting advice. Alongside this, the iHV has contributed further resources on other child public health-related topics. We continue to develop and enhance these materials to ensure that health visitors and their teams have the knowledge and confidence they need to improve health outcomes for all babies, children, and families.