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

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.

• How we work with health and care teams

  

  As an Academic Health Science Network, 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 an AHSN we are uniquely positioned to help innovators to navigate the complex health and care system so that this can happen, faster.

Find out more about what we do

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  New funding opportunities for members

  We try to make this as relevant to you as possible so please let us know if there is anything we have missed that you feel should be included. Covid-19 Specific Funding Other Featured Funding Other Funding Opportunities:  For more information on all open IUK funding opportunities click here. For more information on all DSTL – […]

  • Covid-19 Industry
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  ESCAPE-pain training (for knees/hips)

  August 4

  In order to deliver the ESCAPE-pain classes and become ESCAPE-pain facilitators, professionals are required to attend the training. ESCAPE-pain is a 6 week (12 session) rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain of the knees and/or hips, that integrates educational self-management and coping strategies with an exercise regimen individualised for each participant. It helps people […]

  • Musculoskeletal
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  A vital nudge during a crisis

  Covid-19 has forced healthcare professionals to adapt rapidly in a high pressure situation. Catherine Dale, Programme Director of Patient Safety and Experience, reflects on why it’s vital that healthcare professionals adopt practices that protect them and their colleagues’ health and ensure they are able to provide the best possible care to patients. The #OnlyHuman project […]

  • Covid-19 Workforce

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  Joint Pain Advice: supporting employees in the workplace

  Not only does chronic hip, knee and lower back pain impact adversely on all aspects of an individual’s personal and social lives, it also impacts on their working lives. In the workplace, joint pain can force people to change duties, reduce hours, take sick leave and retire early. Each year, osteoarthritis results in 3 million […]

  • Musculoskeletal Workforce
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  Zero Suicide

  Health Innovation Network are proud to be a member of the Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA). As an organisation we are committed to asking our staff to complete the free ZSA suicide prevention training ‘Save a Life’. After completing the training, you will be able to have a conversation with somebody using these three steps: We will also promote this training to our members […]

  • Mental Health
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  Digital Revolution in Social Care

  England’s increasing older population is fuelling greater demand for adult social care services. We need to look at different ways of delivering social care in England and the implementation of new technology provides an opportunity to improve the quality and efficiency of care in older age. In March 2020, Health Innovation Network (HIN) and DigitalHealth.London […]

  • Digital Healthy Ageing

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  Only Human: supporting wellbeing during and post Covid-19

  Materials to help you positively impact staff physical and mental health Our Patient Safety and Experience team have been working with behavioural insights specialists to create materials based on a behavioural science approach to support frontline health and care staff to prioritise their physical health and emotional wellbeing needs that may have been neglected due […]

  • Covid-19 Patient Safety Workforce
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  Covid-19: Identifying the needs of Mental Health Populations

  Health Innovation Network has been supporting the NHS to identify the mental health needs of specific population groups in response to Covid-19. The mental health team engaged with more than 600 organisations across England during April and May 2020. The team has published several interesting reports into this work that delve into these specific population […]

  • Covid-19 Mental Health
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  Behavioural Insights Research Project: Innovating in catheter practice in the hospital and community

  We have worked collaboratively with Revealing Reality and H+ K Strategies to successfully complete the exploratory phase of our Behavioural Insights Research Project into reducing Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in hospitals and the community setting. This report, the first publication from the project, highlights key challenges and opportunities in the area, with a […]

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety