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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  Reflections on Lord Darzi’s Report and the Role of Technology in Healthcare Transformation

  Lord Darzi’s report into the State of the NHS in England (published 12th Sept) outlines the current parlous state of NHS services, and deterioration over the previous decade and proposes several are

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety
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  Patient and carer involvement at the heart of TeleRehaB project

  The TeleRehaB Decision Support System (DSS), supported by European Union and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding, is an international partnership for developing artificial intelligence (AI) solu

  • Digital Technology
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  The power of collaboration to push forward maternity care

  Accelerating FemTech supports early-stage companies, university spinouts and academic entrepreneurs from across the UK, who are looking to take their early-stage innovation to the next level. These in

• 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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  Equity of Access – people with severe mental illness and physical health checks

  It is recognised nationally that more needs to be done to ensure people with SMI receive their annual health check, however little is known about the equity of access to a ‘complete’ physical health check for people with SMI.

  • Mental Health
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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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  Mindset XR: learning resources for innovators

  Welcome to the Mindset Extended Reality (XR) for digital mental health programme learning resources, which include three series: medical regulation, clinical evidence and lived experience involvement.
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  Mindset-XR: Roadshow Event Resources

  The Mindset-XR Innovation Support Programme hosted a series of roadshows across the UK in summer 2024, showcasing how extended reality (XR) can be applied to mental health services. The roadshows offe
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  Partners with People: Involvement newsletter

  The Involvement newsletter provides you with the latest on involvement work across south London, including the latest events and how to get involved. On this page, you can find previous editions of ou

  • Involvement Patient Experience Patient Safety