A national programme to tackle chronic joint pain and a local initiative supporting young people with Type 1 Diabetes have won at the prestigious Health Service Journal Value Awards. Chronic joint pain programme ESCAPE-pain and the Youth Empowerment Service (YES) that supports 14-19 year olds with Type 1 diabetes, have won prizes at the Health […]
October 21, 2020We are delighted to support Rekha Govindan from Chegworth House, Sutton. She was nominated for the Patient’s Choice category of the RCNi Nurse Awards. Read about the story below. “With her focus on nutrition, I put on weight. I was so thin and frail before. The team helped me to get back on my feet […]
October 6, 2020The AHSN Network Atrial Fibrillation (AF) programme and six regional AHSN partner AF projects have received AF Association Healthcare Pioneer awards for best practice in AF detection and treatment. The AF Association is a UK charity that focuses on raising awareness of AF by providing information and support materials for patients and medical professionals involved […]
November 27, 2019The Health Innovation Network (HIN) work together with a variety of health and care teams in south London to speed up the best of health and care for our communities. The HIN Recognition Awards 2019 celebrate some of the fantastic work and partnerships we are involved in. Our membership is made up of organisations from […]
September 24, 2019Professor Mike Hurley, Developer of the ESCAPE-pain programme, has been shortlisted for the Outstanding Individual of the Year award at this year’s Active Training Awards. Vote for him before 26 October 2018. The Active Training Awards celebrates the success of the activity workforce and the very best of Learning and Development within the sector. Professor […]
October 23, 2018The winners of the prestigious Active Training Awards have been revealed by ukactive, as the physical activity sector celebrated the champions of workforce development last night (15 November 2018). A total of eight awards were made during the evening, with this year’s finalists reflecting a broader spectrum of employers, trainers and suppliers than ever before […]
April 23, 2018Inactivity among the over 55s is responsible for as many deaths as smoking. Research has shown that as you get older, you’re far more likely to do less than 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity a week. Sport England is investing £10 million of National Lottery funding into projects that will help inactive people […]
October 27, 2017Professor Mike Hurley’s rehabilitation programme, ESCAPE-pain, one of 11 innovations selected to join the nationally-celebrated NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA). Since it launched in July 2015, the NIA has supported the uptake and spread of 25 high-impact, evidence-based innovations across 799 NHS organisations. Each of the new innovations joining the NIA in 2017 offer solutions to […]
August 10, 2017The Best Practice Awards reward excellence and showcase exemplary rheumatology services by promoting innovation and best practice across every aspect of rheumatology treatment. The 2016 Best Practice Awards celebrate an innovative or particularly successful scheme involving patients in their local service improvement, in partnership with Versus Arthritis. ESCAPE-pain an evidence-based, cost-effective, group rehabilitation programme for […]
November 5, 2016AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the finalists of its inaugural Sustainable Healthcare ‘Patients as Partners’ Award. The AbbVie Big Ideas for Better Health Awards were launched by AbbVie in 2015 as a way to recognise, celebrate and share exceptional examples of improvements and innovation that demonstrate a clear benefit to the lives of […]
November 1, 2016ESCAPE- pain has been selected as a semi-finalist in Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School’s Health Acceleration Challenge. The Forum on Health Care Innovation, a collaboration between Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), announced today the semi-finalists in its Health Acceleration Challenge, which focuses on taking compelling, already-implemented health care solutions […]
June 27, 2016The Health Innovation Network awarded the two year Health & Wellbeing Awards for its ESCAPE – into the community programme The Health & Wellbeing Awards is the UK’s premier awards scheme for promoting health and wellbeing. The two year award is given for organisations that demonstrated cross-organisation and embedded health improvement strategy that is measurable, […]
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