Our projects

  • Supporting remote monitoring in an outpatient setting

    We are supporting three rheumatology departments across south east London (SEL) to trial a new service that supports patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to remotely monitor their condition. The service aims to help people access the care they need, when they most need it, rather than rely on routine appointments. Starting in 2019, we brought […]

  • Safer medicine administration in care homes during Covid-19

    The HIN engaged with OPUS and commissioned them on a pro bono basis to adapt their existing comprehensive guidance to ensure care home staff were aware of how to safely administer medicines without using a dosette box during the pandemic. We shared the adapted guidance with our care homes with the permission of OPUS. The […]

  • Helping people access diabetic foot services during Covid-19

    With outpatient appointments reduced due to the pandemic, the South East London Diabetes Foot Network which covers seven London boroughs and a population of two million, had to continue high-quality, intensive diabetes foot care. The Diabetes team have supported the network to help the coordination of urgent diabetic foot care while maintaining high-quality pandemic response […]