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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  MSK Improvement Network

  May 23

  The launch of the first MSK Improvement Network event. We are delighted to announce the launch of the MSK Improvement Network, which will build upon the success of the Health Innovation Network’
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  South London MatNeoSIP Network Event – Intro to Quality Improvement series

  May 23

  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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  Meet the innovator: Gabe Jones

  In this edition, we caught up with Gabe Jones, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at St George’s Hospital and Director of Patientcheck.in which allows Patients provide simple clerking information and see their accurate waiting time on their smartphone, while they wait.

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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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  Benign prostatic hyperplasia

  Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a term used to describe an enlarged prostate, a gland that surrounds the urethra. Excess prostate tissue can affect the flow of urine, making it difficult to empt

  • Innovation The MedTech Funding Mandate
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  Spectra Optia

  People living with sickle cell disease need frequent blood transfusion to manage their condition. Spectra Optia separates and removes sickle shaped red blood cells from patients’ blood and replaces

  • Innovation The MedTech Funding Mandate
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  Thopaz+ portable digital system

  Thopaz+ is a portable digital chest drain system, allowing patients who have had pulmonary resection, or a collapsed lung need a chest drain to stay mobile during their treatment, reducing drainage ti

  • Innovation The MedTech Funding Mandate

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  The RIX Multi Me Toolkit ‘Stay Connected’ Project Evaluation Report

  The RIX Multi Me Toolkit ‘Stay Connected’ project was funded through the Techforce19 (TF19) competition organised by NHSx with the AHSN Network and supported by the Government Digital Service, the

  • Digital Technology
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  AHSN directory for innovators

    The wider AHSN Network can provide you with valuable support in accessing funding opportunities and developing successful partnerships. You can search their directory here. 

  • Industry
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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