Quality improvement is central to delivering safe, effective, and responsive health visiting services - and forms a key component of iHV leadership training. Members are also supported to embed QI approaches through access to iHV networking events and specialist interest groups that promote shared learning and innovation.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produces a range of evidence-based recommendations for the health and social care sector (developed by independent committees, including professionals and lay members, and consulted on by stakeholders) in the form of NICE Guidance, Standards and Indicators, and Clinical Knowledge Summaries.
Access their website – and search topics using key words.
Examples of key NICE guidance for health visiting include (note, this is not an exhaustive list):
Postnatal care: Quality Standard: Postnatal care QS37; and NICE Guideline NG194.
Antenatal and postnatal mental health: Clinical Management and Service Guideline CG 192; and Quality Standard 115.
Domestic Violence and Abuse: Quality Standard 116; and Multi-agency working public health guideline PH 50.
Maternal and child nutrition: Maternal and child nutrition and weight management in pregnancy, and nutrition in children up to 5 years NG 247.
Experiences of health care: Babies, children and young people's experience of healthcare NG 204.