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.

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  Meet the innovator: Tiba Rao

  In this edition, we caught up with Tiba Rao, Director of Innovation and Co-founder, Soar Beyond Ltd.
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  Innovation Exchange webinar: Modernising Primary Care Telephony

  Event: Empowering Patients to Self-Manage We are delighted to invite you our interactive webinar “Modernising Primary Care Telephony” on Wednesday 2nd March, 12:30-14:00. We hope you can join us f

  • Industry
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  Meet the innovator: Nick Mayhew

  In this edition, we caught up with Nick Mayhew, Sales and Marketing Director at Bleepa; a revolutionary medical imaging communications platform.

  • Industry

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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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  ESCAPE Pain wins Self Care Innovation Award

  ESCAPE pain, a project that has helped thousands of people around the UK to manage common types of musculoskeletal pain has been named as the winner of this year’s Self Care Innovation Award by the

  • Musculoskeletal
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  HIN Patient Involvement Community of Practice shortlisted for an HSJ 2021 Patient Safety Award

  In 2019, the HIN’s Patient Safety and Experience team partnered with the South East London Cancer Alliance to plan and launch this CoP, to develop a vision for patient involvement for SELCA, to

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety

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  Rapid Evaluation of Croydon Virtual Ward Model

  The Health Innovation Network (HIN) Insights team undertook a rapid evaluation into a virtual ward model that was used to treat patients at home, in order to reduce pressures on services that had aris

  • Healthy Ageing Informatics
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  London Innovation Collaborative care home evaluation

  As part of a commissioned programme of work through the London Digital First Programme, an evaluation of the London regional scale of remote monitoring in care homes will be delivered by the Health In

  • Healthy Ageing
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  Identifying Dementia in Care Homes using DeAR-GP

  The Healthy Ageing Team conducted a study to ensure the appropriate diagnosis of Dementia in residential and nursing homes across south London. Project overviewThe Alzheimer’s Society estimates that

  • Healthy Ageing

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  South London Type 1 Diabetes CamAPS FX Event

  The current conversation on implementing CamAPS FX in South London Hybrid closed loop systems are available in the NHS, however existing products are not licensed for children under 7 and pregnant wom

  • Diabetes Patient Safety Technology
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  Dermatology Improvement Collaborative 2020-21

  From 2020-2021, the HIN partnered with the Industry Dermatology Initiative (IDI) to design a bespoke programme to deliver a Dermatology Improvement Collaborative. The objective of this Collaborative w

  • Digital
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  Cutting the Covid-19 Surgical Backlog through Digital Innovations

  The Health Innovation Network hosted a roundtable event in July 2021 on “Cutting the Covid-19 Backlog through Digital Innovations”, where senior leaders in the NHS from across London were invited to discuss the digital opportunities to tackle this immense challenge.

  • Covid-19