Blogs

Our blogs share views and analysis from our colleagues and partners on research, innovation and improvement in health and care.

Dr Matt Kearney

Size of the Prize for High Blood Pressure – Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes at Scale

Dr Matt Kearney

Size of the Prize for High Blood Pressure – Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes at Scale

UCLPartners has launched ‘Size of the Prize’ for hypertension to support the new national Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme. For every Integrated Care System (ICS) in England, Size of the Prize shows how we can be very ambitious about preventing heart attacks and strokes at scale.
Dr Andrew Wragg

Three ways introducing Bedside Learning Coordinators in the NHS can improve systems and patient care
Dr Andrew Wragg

Three ways introducing Bedside Learning Coordinators in the NHS can improve systems and patient care

Although insights from front-line staff are vital for informing improvement, health services often struggle to gather insights from staff systematically and create mechanisms that ...
- Learning Health Systems
- Quality improvement
- Workforce development
Dr Matt Kearney

The Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme: Doing things differently to prevent heart attacks and strokes at scale

Dr Matt Kearney

The Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme: Doing things differently to prevent heart attacks and strokes at scale

The newly launched national Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme has a big ambition – to prevent heart attacks and strokes at scale by helping primary care to do things differently.
Helen Craig

A shared document: How patients shaped our PPIE strategy
Helen Craig

A shared document: How patients shaped our PPIE strategy

Helen Craig speaks with Cynthia White and Raj Mehta, both experienced patient and carer contributors, on their experiences co-creating the UCLPartners Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Strategy
- Patient and public involvement and engagement
Alexandra Hellyer

Seeing the wood for the trees: Quality Improvement and Long COVID
Alexandra Hellyer

Seeing the wood for the trees: Quality Improvement and Long COVID

Improvement Advisor for UCLPartners, Alexandra Hellyer reflects on how a Quality Improvement (QI) approach could have helped her to deal with the uncertainty of suffering from Long COVID.
- COVID-19
- Quality improvement
Jana Lloyd

How can we support primary care staff to use remote monitoring technology?

Jana Lloyd

How can we support primary care staff to use remote monitoring technology?

The use of remote monitoring technology has become more common across the health service as a result of restrictions from the pandemic. By using remote monitoring technology, such as mobile medical devices like blood pressure monitors, healthcare staff can gather patient-generated health data outside of traditional health and care settings.
Dr Matt Kearney and Helen Williams

How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?

Dr Matt Kearney and Helen Williams

How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?

UCLPartners has built a suite of comprehensive search tools for EMIS and SystmOne that help primary care to safely prioritise care for patients with long term conditions at the same time as responding to the COVID surge and the vaccination programme.
Suzanne Ali Hassan and Lesley Soden

Maximising technology in London’s Community Diagnostic Centres

Suzanne Ali Hassan and Lesley Soden

Maximising technology in London’s Community Diagnostic Centres

Suzanne Ali-Hassan and the HIN's Lesley Soden discuss how they have been supporting the NHS London Community Diagnostic Centres to identify technologies that could address the diagnostic backlog in the cardiology pathway.
Dr Jenny Shand and Rachel Penniston

The five features of a successful Learning Health System
Dr Jenny Shand and Rachel Penniston

The five features of a successful Learning Health System

Learning Health Systems help organisations to learn and act fast to drive improvement. Find out the five core principles that underpin success.
- Learning Health Systems
Helen Craig

Involving young people – an example from the EyeYPAG (Young People’s Advisory Group)
Helen Craig

Involving young people – an example from the EyeYPAG (Young People’s Advisory Group)

Helen Craig tells the story of how a new patient advisory group is formed – with partnerships, power sharing, and a commitment to making things better across eye and vision health care and research.
- Patient and public involvement and engagement

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Size of the Prize for High Blood Pressure – Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes at Scale

Size of the Prize for High Blood Pressure – Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes at Scale

Three ways introducing Bedside Learning Coordinators in the NHS can improve systems and patient care

Three ways introducing Bedside Learning Coordinators in the NHS can improve systems and patient care

The Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme: Doing things differently to prevent heart attacks and strokes at scale

The Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme: Doing things differently to prevent heart attacks and strokes at scale

A shared document: How patients shaped our PPIE strategy

A shared document: How patients shaped our PPIE strategy

Seeing the wood for the trees: Quality Improvement and Long COVID

Seeing the wood for the trees: Quality Improvement and Long COVID

How can we support primary care staff to use remote monitoring technology?

How can we support primary care staff to use remote monitoring technology?

How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?

How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?

Maximising technology in London’s Community Diagnostic Centres

Maximising technology in London’s Community Diagnostic Centres

The five features of a successful Learning Health System

The five features of a successful Learning Health System

Involving young people – an example from the EyeYPAG (Young People’s Advisory Group)

Involving young people – an example from the EyeYPAG (Young People’s Advisory Group)

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