Drug overdose is now the largest cause of accidental death in most developed countries and in the USA and UK alone, more than 80,000 lives were lost last year. Death rates are increasing and all existing efforts have failed to reverse this trend.
In partnership with South East London Cancer Alliance, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts asked people with lived experience to design and produce a cancer elearning resource for people with serious mental illness.
In partnership with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Kings College London and people with lived experience, HIN South London have designed and produced a national e-learning resource to support and guide eating disorder clinicians, young people and families through the transitions process of moving from a child and adolescent NHS Eating Disorder service to an Adult NHS Eating disorder service.
Lumi Nova is a digital therapeutic game that helps children aged 7-12 years self -manage worries and build resilience.
Background In October 2023, according to NHS England, the 62-day backlog fell from its peak of over 34,000 patients to around 21,000. However, despite this progress, a large backlog remains with pat
It is recognised nationally that more needs to be done to ensure people with SMI receive their annual health check, however little is known about the equity of access to a ‘complete’ physical health check for people with SMI.
The Health Innovation Network South London has collaborated with South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Kings College London (KCL) to design and implement a pilot study to test the feasibility of employing people with lived experience in the delivery a of First Episode and Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED) an early intervention eating disorder service.
An eating disorder is an unhealthy attitude to food, which can take over an individual’s life and cause illness and even death. It can involve eating too much or too little or becoming obsessed with your weight and body shape.
We are delighted to have the opportunity to continue supporting our south London perinatal teams to implement and sustain improvements to the nine elements of preterm perinatal optimisation as stated
The pulmonary rehabilitation and mental health project aims to use an experience-based co-design (EBCD) approach to understand how access to – and engagement with – mental health services can be improved for patients referred to pulmonary rehabilitation.
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) Competency Framework Implementation project will be delivered in partnership with the London Respiratory Clinical Network (LRCN). The focus is on developing a toolkit
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) Patient Education and Informational Materials project is being delivered in partnership with the London Respiratory Clinical Network (LRCN). The focus is on understan
We are working to reduce cardiovascular events by supporting a range of projects to implement the national Atrial Fibrillation Toolkit’s “Detect, Protect and Perfect” model.
HIN South London strives to incorporate service users in programme design as outlined in the Health Innovation Network’s Involvement Strategy 2022 – 2025.
As part of the National Hypertension Programme, we are working with primary care teams across south London to reduce hypertension and increase the detection of it in their services and within the community.
As part of the National Lipids Programme we are working with South East London ICS and South West London ICS on various initiatives to support lipids management services.
People living with severe mental illness (SMI) in England die on average 15 to 20 years earlier compared to the general population. For people with SMI, 2 in 3 deaths are from physical illnesses that are preventable.
The Doctaly Assist platform, created by the health tech company Doctaly, uses WhatsApp to monitor and manage patients with COVID-19 in the community by facilitating the collection of patient informati
Project Overview The South London Care Home Pioneer Programme is a nine-month programme, run by the Health Innovation Network and My Home Life England, aimed at improving leadership skills and promot
Our Community and Care Home Programmes Team has been supporting South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) to increase awareness of Urgent Community Response services amongst care homes and telehe
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
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
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.
The InHIP Cardiovascular Disease Prevention project is a pilot of a pharmacist-led community lipid management hub in Bexley, targeting those patients with existing cardiovascular disease not currently treated to target, with a specific focus on the CORE20 and PLUS populations in NHS England’s Core20PLUS5 framework.