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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  Introducing Lived Experience Partners at the HIN

  In 2022, the Health Innovation Network launched an Involvement Strategy that represents a refresh in thinking and effort to co-produce health innovation. Part of this strategy was a new Lived Experien

  • Involvement
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  Introducing Lived Experience Partners at the HIN

  Involving the public is crucial to ensuring health and care services are designed as effectively as possible. However, it can be difficult to get the language of involvement right. Alice Beaumont, in the HIN’s Insights team, shares what we’ve learnt about using appropriate language around involvement and how this can help improve engagement.

  • Involvement
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  FeNO Devices Available at Discounted Cost to Practices and PCNs

  The NHS have received long-term loan offers of FeNO devices to improve access to lung function testing in primary care/the community. This initiative can support the mobilisation of quality-assured R

  • AAC Innovation Programmes

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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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  BP@Home Evaluation

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, blood pressure monitoring within primary care decreased. Remote blood pressure monitoring was identified as a priority for cardiovascular disease (CVD) management to ensu

  • Cardiovascular Insights and Patient Safety
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  Tackling Myasthenia Gravis

  Myasthenia gravis (MG) is one of several thousand known diseases affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people. It is a rare disease and has not received the attention it deserves. We were funded by UCB to

  • Patient Safety
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  Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Fellowship

  The CVD Prevention Fellowship was a quality improvement programme for primary care clinicians in south London.

  • Cardiovascular Workforce

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  Virtual Ward Models in South West London Evaluation

  The Health Innovation Network (HIN) Insights team was jointly commissioned by the @home team and the London Digital team at NHS England to undertake an evaluation aiming to understand the role of virt

  • Digital Evaluation and Informatics Services Healthy Ageing
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  What are the advantages and disadvantages of remote monitoring for patients?

  The arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 bought huge challenges to the way healthcare was delivered. Remote monitoring technology helped to meet those challenges by allowing people to be cared for in the comfo

  • Digital Evaluation and Informatics Services Technology
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  Innovating London’s musculoskeletal services

  The London MSK Improvement Network is a learning and sharing forum directed towards multidisciplinary professionals involved in delivering, leading or managing musculoskeletal services in London. The

  • Musculoskeletal Workforce