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What is the TCAM pathway? Research has repeatedly shown that patients often experience errors or unintentional changes to their medicines when they move between care providers, presenting a significant risk to patient safety1. Improving the safe transfer of information about medicines between hospital and community pharmacy reduces the incidence of avoidable harm to patients. Evidence […]
The national policies, guidance and resources listed below will assist any innovator in learning more about the current needs and challenges facing the NHS and social care services. Alongside information on relevant standards, guidance useful reports. The national policies, guidance and resources listed below will assist any innovator in learning more about the current […]
Project overviewOlder adult psychiatric in-patient activities were significantly impacted by Covid-19 due to patient isolation and staff capacity. Following the first ‘wave’, The Health Innovation Network (HIN), Getech Enterprise and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) trialled the use of Google Chrome patient devices with dementia-friendly content to support with increasing patient engagement. […]
The South London based Genomics Network Alliance, including The Health Innovation Network, has been announced as a successful bidder in the race to become a pioneering Genomic Medicine Centre, part of the ground-breaking 100,000 Genomes Project.
A downloadable leaflet, issued by the The Point of Care Foundation. The Point of Care Foundation is an independent charity working to improve patients’ experience of care and increase support for the staff who work with them.
Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care is the partnership that has brought the health and social care organisations and citizens of Southwark and Lambeth together, so that local people can lead healthier and happier lives. The December edition of their newsletter explores how staff working within their partner organisations are preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, making interventions […]
Together with the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South London, Health Innovation Network commissioned this exploratory work to inform the design of educational initiatives to help staff develop the practical know-how and research skills for service improvement, often referred to as Implementation and Improvement Science. We are working with our […]
Together with the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South London, Health Innovation Network commissioned this exploratory work to inform the design of educational initiatives to help staff develop the practical know-how and research skills for service improvement, often referred to as Implementation and Improvement Science. We are working with our […]
The Dementia programme is now nine months into its programme and has made real progress in its areas of focus. This fact sheet gives an overview of the objectives and the work being undertaken by the Health Innovation Network Dementia Clinical theme.
Please use and adapt this leaflet for referrers into the DESMOND programme. People with Type 2 diabetes tell us that frequently not enough information about the course is given to them at referral and the benefits of the course were are not ‘sold’ to them. Many health care professionals won’t know what DESMOND is and […]
Please use and adapt this leaflet template for people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. It tells them about the course in easy to understand language and signposts them to further information on self-management of Diabetes.
This is an example of a referral form for the DESMOND course for Type 2 diabetes from Lewisham. Please feel free to use and adapt it.
Read an account of the HIN & HESL South London Membership Council meeting.
At our Autumn 2014 Patient Experience event Tony Quinlan, Chief Storyteller from Narrate discuss innovative techniques for story-telling.
The Health Innovation Network (HIN) and the London Strategic Clinical Network (LSCN) have worked together to produce and launch a new toolkit, to address the causes of low uptake of Structured Education and provide guidance on how to make high quality Structured Education easily accessible to people with Type 2 Diabetes. The toolkit outlines proven […]
For anyone commissioning or providing structured education for diabetes monitoring key performance indicators on a monthly basis is essential. Please use these templates as a basis for data collection.
Croydon have shared their service specification for commissioning high quality adult diabetes education.
Please feel free to download and adapt this self-referral form for people who want to attend DESMOND which has been kindly shared by Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham diabetes teams
Download a copy of the Health Innovation Network Annual Report for 2013-14.
This is the Executive Summary of research into the language of the ‘patient agenda’ by Linguistic Landscapes.
The ‘tree’ representing the roles filled by patients and challenging those working within the health sector to think differently about the way they engage and communicate with patients.
Matthew Andrews, HIN Programme Manager – Alcohol – shared this presentation at the Alcohol Clinical Launch event on the current South London landscape. It also provides an overview of the three proposed project areas within the HIN Alcohol programme.
The Dementia Training Centre provides online high quality training about dementia, care and aspects of old age mental health for health and social care professionals, care home managers and their care staff, and voluntary sector organisations.
This publication has been provided by Sevenoaks Hospital, St George’s University of London and Kingston University and the University of the West of England.