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 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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  New NHS Innovation Service streamlines national support for innovators

  HIN Chief Executive Rishi Das-Gupta has hailed this week’s launch of the NHS Innovation Service as an important step forward in delivering life-changing innovation more quickly. Coordinated by the N

  • Digital
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  Award-winning Accelerator pays testament to six years of AHSN support for innovators

  As DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator programme is recognised for its role in supporting innovators, we reflect on the vital importance of AHSNs and their partners in helping the patients and the wi

  • Covid-19 Digital Industry Workforce
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  South London MatNeoSIP QI 2nd Network Event:Tools to understand the problem

  August 16

  Quality Improvement (QI) series to learn and gain practical support on how to implement a QI project in Maternity and Neonatal Safety You are warmly invited to the South London Maternity and Neonata

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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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  Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme

  The Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (known as MatNeoSIP), was renamed following the launch of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy in July 2019. It was previously known as the Maternal

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety
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  Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (HEAL-D) in African and Caribbean communities

  In the UK, type 2 diabetes (T2D) is up to three times more common in people of Black African and African-Caribbean ethnicity than people of White ethnicity (Becker et al, 2004). Existing structured ed

  • Diabetes
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  Perinatal health inequalities: bringing people together to make pregnancy and birth safer

  Women and birthing people from a Black, Asian or mixed ethnic background are up to five times more likely to experience poor outcomes during their maternity journey, including a higher risk of materna

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety

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  South London Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme: Quality Improvement series

  The South London Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme: Quality Improvement (QI) series is currently being delivered at the HIN. The programme aims to deliver a learning programme to bui

  • Patient Safety
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  Understanding the Process Automation Landscape for Primary Care

  NHS England’s London Digital First team are currently driving the digitisation of primary care through several workstreams, with one key focus area being the potential of automation to yield service

  • Digital Industry Technology
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  FeNO Pathway Transformation Fund (PTF) Project Resources

  The Pathway Transformation Fund (PTF) helps NHS organisations integrate eligible Rapid Uptake Products into everyday practices. On this page you can find resources to support you with FeNO asthma diag

  • Rapid Uptake Products (RUPs) Workforce