Our expertise and services

We are an NHS team that works flexibly across the health and care sector, industry, academia and in partnership with south London residents to speed up innovation and improve care. We advise, support and connect teams to successfully adopt innovation. Whether you are a member in south London or another organisation seeking innovation support, you can contact us at any time to discuss your innovation project and see how we can help.

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• How we work with health and care teams

  

  As the Health Innovation Network for south London, our role is to advise, support and connect health and care
  teams to adopt innovation successfully, in order to improve patient care, health outcomes, and efficiency.

• How we work with industry

  

  We are dedicated to ensuring that patients and citizens benefit from the latest in innovation. As the Health Innovation Network for south London, we are uniquely positioned to help innovators to navigate the complex health and care system so that this can happen, faster.

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  Using patient insights to transform NHS 111 services

  London’s NHS 111 is being transformed to meet service demand sustainably for the future. The changes aim to shift patients who access the 111 services by phone onto digital pathways and online service

  • Insights Patient Experience
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  How “closing the loop” empowers Lived Experience Partners and ensures project success

  Just over a year after joining the HIN, Lived Experience Partners (LEPs) Faith Smith and Aurora Todisco reflect on one vital step of involving people and communities in health and care projects that i

  • Insights Patient Experience Patient Safety Workforce
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  Immersive technology for mental health: understanding the evidence-generation landscape

  Building a reliable evidence base is an important consideration for any innovator in the healthcare space. In this blog, HIN Head of Insights Dr Andrew Walker provides a high-level introduction to evaluation and evidence-generation in the context of the Innovate UK Mindset-XR Innovation Support Programme.

• Early Intervention Eating Disorders (FREED) National Spread Programme has been shortlisted for an HSJ Award 2023

  A mental health programme which has benefitted 1000s of young people with eating disorders has been shortlisted for a prestigious national HSJ Award. An early intervention eating disorder model which

  • Mental Health
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  HIN projects shortlisted as finalists for HSJ Digital Awards 2023

  We are delighted to announce that three projects involving the Health Innovation Network have been selected as finalists for the HSJ Digital Awards 2023. HIN programmes shortlisted for the prestigiou

  • Diabetes Digital DigitalHealth.London
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  HIN Patient safety team and AHSN network win at the prestigious HSJ Awards

  The Health Innovation Network (HIN) Patient Safety and Experience’s Covid Oximetry @home work was announced as the winner in the patient safety category for the significant support Patient Safe

  • Digital Patient Experience Patient Safety

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  Diversifying the First Episode and Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED) Workforce

  The Health Innovation Network South London has collaborated with South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Kings College London (KCL) to design and implement a pilot study to test th

  • Mental Health
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  South London Optimisation and Stabilisation of the Preterm Infant

  We are delighted to have the opportunity to continue supporting our south London perinatal teams to implement and sustain improvements to the nine elements of preterm perinatal optimisation as stated

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety
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  South East London Experience-Based Co-Design for Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Mental Health

  The pulmonary rehabilitation and mental health project aims to use an experience-based co-design (EBCD) approach to understand how access to – and engagement with – mental health services can be i

  • Mental Health Patient Experience Respiratory

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  Protected: Mindset XR: Regulating immersive technology for mental health in the UK and EU

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  Report: Experience-based co-design for improving and integrating mental health pathways within pulmonary rehabilitation services in south east London

  Overview More than 15 million people in the UK live with one or more Long Term Condition (LTC) and over 4 million of these individuals also experience mental health problems.  A significant proportio

  • Mental Health Patient Experience Respiratory
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  Report: Primary Care AI and Automation Grants Scheme pilot summary

  The report details the real-world impact of AI and automation across primary care.

  • Digital