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22 December 2015
The December edition of Partnership Press, our monthly newsletter, is now available. This month we look at how the Neonatal Network has helped to improve outcomes for babies in London. As always, you can find the latest news, events and funding opportunities across the partnership. Read it now and subscribe for fut...
16 December 2015
The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today announced pilots to take the first steps in devolving healthcare powers to leaders in London. All of London’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), local authorities, the Greater London Authority signed a devolution agreement with th...
30 November 2015
The second edition of the UCLPartners Patient Safety Programme quarterly newsletter was published today. In this edition you can meet more of the team, read about the progress of the work streams, hear about the upcomingstakeholder engagement event and the great opportunity to be a UCLPartners Improvement Fellow. You ...
30 November 2015
The November edition of Partnership Press, our monthly newsletter, is now available. This month we look at the launch of the UCLPartners Improvement Fellows Programme. As always, you can find the latest news, events and funding opportunities across the partnership. Read it now and subscribe for future editions. @...
30 November 2015
Today we are excited to announce the launch of our Improvement Fellows Programme. The programme, which is now accepting applications, will help create a cadre of people – clinicians, managers, educators, researchers, patients and others – who have the enthusiasm, motivation and capability to drive improvement within the...
18 November 2015
Health Enterprise East (HEE) has announced the sale of its portfolio company, Northwood Medical Innovations Ltd, to Allergan plc, a leading global pharmaceutical and aesthetics company. Founded in 2010 as a spin out of HEE and West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Northwood Medical Innovations has developed a pione...
17 November 2015
Amit Bali
“Hands up who works in…?” asked the first speaker of the day, the varied responses led me to discover that I was in the company of GPs, paediatricians, child mental health practitioners, researchers, commissioners and policymakers – to name just a few. For a paediatrician who has worked mainly in hospitals, this was...
13 November 2015
We are delighted to report that the More than Mentors peer mentoring programme has received some well-deserved publicity. Programme lead Simon Munk was interviewed for Children & Young People online magazine after they read about the pilot on this website. Details of the emotional resilience programme, which ran in two ...
11 November 2015
David Probert has been announced as the new chief executive for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is due to take up the post in April next year following the retirement of John Pelly. Professor Sir David Fish, Managing Director, UCLPartners said: “I am delighted to hear of David’s appointment to Moorf...
30 October 2015
Over July and August 2015, we reached out to individuals and organisations who are partners of, or who have worked with UCLPartners in its capacity as an Academic Health Science Network (AHSN). This local call for feedback was part of a nationwide NHS England survey of AHSN stakeholders to understand the perception of how A...
30 October 2015
NHS England and the AHSN Network have today published the results of the first stakeholder survey to measure the current perception of AHSNs across England; with the majority of respondents (73%) saying they would recommend working with AHSNs. The NHS needs to deliver a step-change in the way it identifies, adopts and sp...
28 October 2015
The October edition of Partnership Press, our monthly newsletter, is now available. This month we look at an initative in north central London to increase the awareness of asthma in children. As always, you can find the latest news, events and funding opportunities across the partnership. Read it now and subscribe for...
27 October 2015
Maria Piggin
As a patient, I found the experience of attending the UCLPartners Education Conference 2015 -“Educating for patient-centred care”, a very valuable insight into the appetite within the medical profession to change the culture of care to be more patient-centred. Dr Clare Morris’s reflections on her experience of bein...
19 October 2015
Two companies working within UCLPartners’ AHSN region have been selected for Phase 2 of the Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare) clinically-led competition. The NHS England funded initiative helps develop innovative products that address unmet health needs. From 26 companies awarded Phase...
16 October 2015
This year's UCLPartners Education Conference, held at the Royal College of GPs, focused on educating for patient-centred care. A strong theme running throughout the conference was that from a clinical perspective, patient-centred care can often be improved by simply listening to individual patient’s needs and concerns....
10 October 2015
Tim Gluck
The 2015 Education Conference, focusing on patient-centred care, has been roughly nine months in planning, but you’ll be pleased to see that I’ve managed to condense it to a page here! What is patient-centred care? There are many different components, but a good summary is that it is care that values the patient as a...
8 October 2015
The DIY Health model aims to use co-production as the mechanism of action to improve the skills, knowledge and confidence of parents in managing minor ailments in children under the age of 5. The DIY Health pilot study involved two iterations of 12 weekly 2-hour sessions at two delivery sites. Cohort 1 sessions were cond...
1 October 2015
Jenny Shand and Laura Stuart-Neil
It seems fitting on Older People’s Day that, as a partnership across health and social care, we should pause and reflect on the services we provide. We have a growing, ageing population across the country that are living longer with more complex care needs. Coupled with the £22 billion efficiency gap the NHS needs to clo...
30 September 2015
UCLPartners successfully developed and tested a perinatal mental health scorecard – which aims to improve outcomes for children age 0-5, and their families – with four partner organisations. The scorecard is a service-level quality improvement (QI) tool that is completed monthly and records national best practice adh...
30 September 2015
Start at the Beginning - a pilot randomised control trial conducted in primary care. The purpose of this pilot trial was to determine the feasibility and efficacy of a nutrition and lifestyle digital intervention in improving preconception health in women planning a pregnancy who are attending Health Visiting services in...
30 September 2015
The September edition of the UCLPartners newsletter, Partnership Press, is available now. This month's main story is about the announcement of four new vanguards across the partnership to improve care for thousands of patients. There are also updates on the latest news from across the partnership and upcoming events and ...
28 September 2015
SBRI Healthcare, today announced the launch of its latest clinically-led competition which aims to help develop solutions that improve patients’ lives and support NHS efficiency. In this latest round, SBRI Healthcare is offering companies each up to £100,000 Phase 1 feasibility funding to develop products that reduce t...
18 September 2015
UCLPartners and Barts Health NHS Trust have reached the next stage of the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards, the largest celebration of UK healthcare, for the development of the Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which opened in May this year. The partners have been shortlisted in Specialised Services R...
17 September 2015
Kate Middleton will visit the Anna Freud Centre in central London today to hear about how the centre treats children and young people with mental health issues. Her visit will take place in the planned centre of excellence near Kings Cross, which will bring together the best people and organisations in neuroscience, me...
2 September 2015
UCLPartners and the Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) have signed a concordat of collaboration to address challenges facing the NHS and social care. Signed in July 2015, the agreement fosters collaboration between the medical technology industry and UCLPartners, the NHS and social care partners to addre...
27 August 2015
The August edition of the UCLPartners newsletter, Partnership Press, is available now. This month's newsletter is about how mental health training is being expanded to GPs through a UCLPartners programme called ‘Breaking down the barriers’. There are also updates on the latest news from across the partnership and up...
17 August 2015
Next month sees the Health and Care Innovation Expo, one of the main events in the health and social care calendar, attracting around 5,000 visitors, returning to Manchester. The AHSN Network will be running an ‘AHSN Zone’, where visitors will have opportunity to find out more about the work of The AHSN Network and in...
7 August 2015
Congratulations to our patient safety team for putting together some great content for the website and their first newsletter! The first edition of the UCLPartners Patient Safety Programme quarterly newsletter was published yesterday, covering the vision of the programme and progress so far with the new acute kidney inju...
18 June 2015
Download the NIHR CRN North Thames annual report 2014/15.
10 June 2015
UCLPartners' second annual report highlights the progress made during 2014/15 by the AHSC, AHSN, Clinical Research Network North Thames and Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research North Thames, as well as the North Thames Genomic Medicine Centre and the organisation's role as an Education Lead Provider. ...
7 May 2015
Download the UCLPartners Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) annual report submitted to NIHR on 7 May 2015.
23 April 2015
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects around 1 million people (though around 250,000 of these are undiagnosed) in the UK; it causes irregular or abnormally fast heart rate and is responsible for around 1 in 8 strokes. It is believed that more than half of the strokes due to AF could be prevented by the appropriate use of oral an...