We help health and care teams in south London benefit from innovation faster

Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London is the health innovation network for south London, one of 15 across England. We are the bodies uniquely established to connect NHS and academic organisations, local authorities, the third sector and industry, in order to increase the spread and adoption of innovation across large populations, at pace and scale.

Learn more about our priorities in our Strategy 2021-26.

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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  • 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.
    • Our Executive Director of Digital and Transformation Dr Amanda Begley and Head of Mental Health Aileen Jackson recently spoke on panels at the Digital Healthcare Show, shedding light on and discussing the role of immersive technology in revolutionising mental health care.
    • In this edition, we catch up with Will Gao, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Suvera a CQC-registered digital healthcare provider that works with general practitioners to support individuals

      • 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
      • 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
      • 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

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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

      • 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

      • 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

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