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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  The importance of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in healthcare research and transformation

  BlogBack Post Title Covid-19 has led to significant changes in how mental health services in south London have been delivered. There has been a rapid shift from face-to-face to remote telephone and vi

  • Mental Health
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  New report shows remote mental health consultations make care more accessible but are not the right solution for all patients

  Remote technology has transformed mental health consultations during Covid-19 but it’s not the solution for every situation nor for all patients. Key stats 6,030 patients responded to

  • Mental Health Technology
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  Innovating in mental health in an unequal world

  This year’s theme of World Mental Health Day demands us to stop and ask, how do we make mental health services better in an unequal world? Hear reflections from our Head of Mental Health, Aileen Jackson.

  • Mental Health

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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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  HIN shortlisted for two NHS Communicate Awards

  Two projects have been shortlisted for the first-ever NHS Communicate Awards. The ongoing You & Type 2 diabetes work in the “Use of Data and Insight for Innovation” category and for th

  • Diabetes Digital Workforce
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  Two HIN projects have been shortlisted for the 2021 HSJ Awards

  The Health Innovation Network Patient Safety and Experience’s Covid Oximetry @home work and DigitalHealth.London’s Digital Pioneer Fellowship have both been shortlisted this week for HSJ A

  • Digital Patient Experience Patient Safety

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  National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) – Improving Diabetes Care in NHS Mental Health Inpatient Services

  Individuals living with a serious mental illness, die 15-20 years earlier than the general population, due to a greater risk of poor physical health.*This project focuses on the care that people with

  • Diabetes Mental Health
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  Care Homes Digital Maturity Dashboard

  There is limited information on digital maturity in care homes within London. Building on the EoLC Care Home data packs created in 2018 and 2019, our Healthy Ageing and Informatics Teams were commissi

  • Healthy Ageing Informatics
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  Advance and Urgent Care Plans – London Accelerator

  In July 2020, The Health Innovation Network (HIN) was commissioned to deliver a programme to increase use and quality of shared electronic advance/urgent care plans using Co-ordinate my Care (CMC). Th

  • Healthy Ageing

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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
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  Remote consultations in Mental health case studies

  Below are case studies that describe the implementation processes that supported the introduction of new models of care in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Use the links to access and downloa

  • Mental Health