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BlogBack In this edition, we caught up with Adam Hunter, Chief Commercial Officer at Phlo Digital Pharmacy. Pictured above: Adam Hunter, Chief Commercial Officer at Phlo Digital Pharmacy. Tell us about your innovation in a sentence Phlo Digital Pharmacy allows consumers to manage their NHS and private prescriptions online, track the order in real-time and have […]
June 15, 2021The speed and ingenuity of the NHS’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to understand how successful digital transformation can be delivered quickly and at scale. In partnership with Sitekit, we published a report to capture the behaviours, values and decisions which made rapid digital innovation during the covid-19 pandemic possible. As […]
June 7, 2021Hear reflections and shared learning on implementing Coordinate My Care (CMC) from Advance Care Planning project teams The Health Innovation Network AHSN South London invite you to our Advance Care Planning Accelerator Conference. The Health Innovation Network (HIN) is the Academic Health Science Network for South London. In July 2020, the HIN were successfully awarded […]
May 28, 2021We try to make this as relevant to you as possible so please let us know if there is anything we have missed that you feel should be included. Covid-19 Specific Funding: Other Featured Funding: Other Funding Opportunities: Innovate UK: Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body funded by […]
May 28, 2021Over 18 months after winning a Health Innovation Network (HIN) Innovation Grant, we catch up with Naomi Carlisle, NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Women and Children’s Health, King’s College London to tell us about her team’s project and what’s happened since then. In England and Wales, eight per cent of babies are born […]
May 21, 2021Do you identify as BAME (16+) with lived experience of an Eating Disorder? Share your experiences & help us to improve access to treatment. The Early Intervention Eating Disorders Programme, led by the AHSN network, is currently supporting mental health teams across England to speed up diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders in young people […]
May 19, 2021Covid-19 has meant a worsening of the so-called “digital divide”, with those who are unable to use digital technology feeling the impact of changes to services. Gemma Dakin, Project Support Officer in our Digital Transformation and Technology Team, talks about what is being done to address the situation in south London and across the wider […]
May 14, 2021Gemma Dakin is a project support officer for the Digital Transformation and Technology team at the Health Innovation Network (HIN) which she combines with one day a week as a nurse at The London Clinic. For International Nurses Day 2021 she shares her experience so far and how she was inspired to become a Digital […]
May 11, 2021The story of how south London transformed diabetes care for up to 300,000 people is one of care moving from niche to mainstream. The HIN’s Diabetes theme Clinical Director Dr Neel Basudev charts successes across 12 boroughs. Here is a letter I recently received in the post. I want to change and transform the care […]
May 7, 2021Our Innovation Grants support pilots that make a real difference to the lives of people in south London. Here one of our alumni Chris Gumble, Project Manager for Long term conditions at the South West London Health and Care Partnership shares his experiences of the scheme. How do we prevent people from developing Type 2 […]
April 30, 2021BlogBack This year on 29 April the Royal College of Nursing mark their Inaugural Clinical Research Nursing Day with a theme titled ‘Celebrating clinical research nursing and its vital role in health care’. We spoke to Linda McQuaid, a former Director of Nursing and current Clinical Director for our Patient Safety and Experience team and […]
April 29, 2021BlogBack In this edition, we caught up with Dr Raza Toosy, Medical Director at General Practice Software Solution. Pictured above: Dr Raza Toosy, GP Principal at Park Road Medical Centre and Medical Director at General Practice Software Solution Tell us about your innovation in a sentence. PatientLeaf is a real-time clinical decision support tool that adds […]
April 27, 2021Therapeutic Interactions and Person-centred Care Skills (TIPS) is an innovative and evidence-based training package for health professionals The Health Innovation Network AHSN South London in partnership with the Physiotherapy Pain Association and St George’s University Hospitals invite you to our Psychologically informed Practice for Health Professionals Shared Learning webinar. Introducing Therapeutic Interactions and Person-centred Care […]
April 26, 2021A new partnership between the Health Innovation Network (HIN) and Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK) has secured the future of an award-winning programme that helps people with knee, hip and back pain. The ESCAPE-pain programme, which stands for Enabling Self-Management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise (ESCAPE), was developed by Professor Mike Hurley at St […]
April 26, 2021An interactive session on AI in social care and care homes will be the focus for a joint HIN/NIHR session at the Intelligent Health 2021, Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference. Along with DigitalHealth.London and AHSN Innovation Exchange, the HIN will be delivering a Challenge session at this virtual conference. Our challenge session is jointly led between […]
April 23, 2021New telephony systems mean a revolution in the patient experience as part of the shift to ‘Total Triage’. But the wealth of systems on the market means GP surgeries face a daunting challenge identifying the right system, says Denis Duignan, the HIN’s Head of Digital Transformation & Technology. Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequacies of traditional […]
April 22, 2021St George’s University Hospital Emergency Department unveils one of UK’s first dual queuing and self check-in system where patients see real time updates of their queue position on TV screens and smartphones. St George’s installed the system after winning a HIN Innovation Grants award in 2019 St George’s University Hospital is one of the first […]
April 9, 2021We try to make this as relevant to you as possible so please let us know if there is anything we have missed that you feel should be included. Covid-19 Specific Funding: Other featured funding: Other funding opportunities: Innovate UK: Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body funded by […]
April 7, 2021Join other influential leaders and digital innovators at this free perinatal mental health and wellbeing event. Join other influential leaders and digital innovators at this free perinatal mental health and wellbeing event to shape the future of digital interventions for the perinatal population. The focus of the event is to share and discuss the opportunities […]
April 6, 2021The Health Innovation Network works with a number of innovators who could potentially support the health and social care sector. As we move further into the delivery of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, Primary Care systems have accelerated digital transformation in workforce management. We have invited Melissa Morris, CEO of Lantum, a workforce management platform that […]
March 31, 2021The winners of five Innovation Grants awards have been announced today (31 March) by the Health Innovation Network, working in partnership with Health Education England (HEE). In all there were 32 applications for the awards. All of the chosen innovations align to key NHS priorities by addressing major health challenges such as managing musculoskeletal pain, […]
March 31, 2021There is no “silver bullet” to tackle vaccine hesitancy. However, every one of us has an opportunity to use personal relationships to make a difference to Covid-19 vaccine uptake rates. We hear from Cleo Butterworth, Associate Clinical Director for Patient Safety and Experience at the HIN (pictured with Sir David Sloman, NHS Regional Director for […]
March 25, 2021Dr Annette Pautz has been a GP at Holmwood Corner Surgery in South West London for 16 years. She is Deputy Chair for the Borough Committee in Kingston, Chair of the Council of Members for Kingston (a group representing Kingston GPs) and is also the clinical lead for community, care homes and respiratory in Kingston […]
March 24, 2021Rick Mayne is the Registered Home Manager for Sherwood Grange Care Home in Kingston, South West London which is home to more than 50 residents with varying care needs and abilities. He’s worked in the sector for 30 years, five of which have been at Sherwood Grange. Last year his home implemented Whzan to help […]
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