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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  Partnering with people: how experts by experience are helping to reduce restrictive practice in acute mental health settings

  17 September marks World Patient Safety Day; the theme for 2023 is ’Engaging patients for patient safety’ in recognition of the crucial role patients, families and caregivers play in impro

  • Patient Experience Patient Safety
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  Health Innovation Network Publishes Anti-Racism Evaluation

  In 2020, in response to the murder of George Floyd and the stark health disparities highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Innovation Network embarked on a programme of organisational change
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  “We want to work in partnership” – World Patient Safety Day and MedSIP

  On World Patient Safety Day, we hear the latest from the Pan-London Medicines Safety Improvement Programme Team on their dedicated efforts to include patients in the heart of medicines safety.

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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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  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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  Transforming Wound Care

  Project overview Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK experience painful slow-healing lower leg wounds such as ulcers each year. The AHSN Network Transforming Wound Care programme uses the eviden

  • Community and Care Homes
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  HIN Anti-Racism Project Evaluation

  The HIN Anti-Racism Programme took place between May 2020 and May 2023, with the aim of supporting the HIN in its goal to become an actively anti-racist organisation. In order to evaluate the effectiv
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  Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP): Maternity

  The InHIP maternity project aims to implement placental growth factor (PlGF) testing at Croydon University Hospital maternity unit and to improve access to risk management of high blood pressure throughout the maternity pathway.

  • AAC Innovation Programmes Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme

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  Building bridges: developing a revised mental health pathway for people aged 16-25

  This resource and report summarises key outputs from the work of Janis Griffiths, a Darzi fellow who was co-hosted by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and the Health Innovation Network in 2023.   Exis

  • Mental Health
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  Recognising and Capturing Value from Communities of Practice

  “The Health Innovation Network, in partnership with the The Health Foundation’s Q Community have run three cohorts of the Communities of Practice (CoP) Leadership Development Programme to support thos
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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