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 and their partners to navigate the complex health and care system so that this can happen, faster.

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  New partnership to expand access and ensure sustainability of award-winning chronic joint pain programme

  An innovative knee, hip and back pain programme which has helped over 40,000 patients and saved the NHS tens of millions of pounds will soon be available more widely across the UK, thanks to a new par

  • Community and Care Homes
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  Protected: Case Study: Play Well For Life – Transforming adolescent mental health through immersive play

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  • Mental Health Technology
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  Immersive mental healthcare technologies shaping the innovation roadmap

  In this blog, Senior Programme Manager Jill Owens looks at the key qualities shared by successful innovators from understanding clinical needs to demonstrating positive patient outcomes, delivering cost efficiencies, and championing inclusivity.

  • Mental Health Technology

• 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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  Evaluation of NHS 111 #MentalHealth in London

  Mental ill-health is an increasingly urgent concern and priority in the UK. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a vision for robust 24/7 all age access to mental health crisis services, with the access po

  • Evaluation and Informatics Services Mental Health
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  TeleRehaB Decision Support System (DSS) Market Access Report

  The latest output from this work, the TeleRehaB DSS Market Access Report, provides a strategic overview of the telerehabilitation market across five key European countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

  • Digital Technology
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  Children and Young People and Digital Mental Health Technologies

  From the beginning of the Health Innovation Network South London’s mental health programme in 2018, south London mental health stakeholders have actively engaged in learning about, testing and implementing digital mental health technologies (DMHTs).

  • Mental Health

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  Evaluation summary: Race and Health Observatory Learning Action Network Programme Pilot

  The Health Innovation Network South London (HIN), in partnership with UCLPartners (UCLP), conducted a 14‑month mixed‑methods evaluation of the Maternal and Neonatal Health Learning Action Network (LAN) pilot programme.

  • Evaluation and Informatics Services
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  Report: Evaluation of the physical health checks programme for people with severe mental illness in south east London

  In England, people with severe mental illness have a life expectancy 15-20 years shorter relative to the general population, largely due to preventable physical illnesses. The NHS has a national target for at least 60 per cent of people with severe mental illness to receive a full annual physical health check by March 2025.

  • Evaluation and Informatics Services
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  Report: Evaluation of ear checks in residential special schools pilot programme

  Overview Childhood hearing loss can have a significant detrimental effect on language and communication development, as well as on academic and social growth. This is worse for children with learning

  • Evaluation and Informatics Services