Blogs

UCLPartners Patient Safety Collaborative has launched a care homes network that aims to reduce deterioration-associated harm by improving the identification and response to deterioration, as well as making medicines’ administration safer.

Data-driven evolutions in healthcare have the potential to transform care for the better, but they can also exacerbate existing health inequalities (Challenging racism in the use of health data, Lancet, 2021). Here, Jacqui Gath shares her thoughts on the importance of data diversity in healthcare research and the steps that can be taken to address inequalities in healthcare.

As a GP working over the course of the pandemic across multiple GP sites, but predominantly in Enfield, I have been quite overwhelmed by the rise in the incidence of patients presenting with worsening of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma and COPD.

Network Development Lead Sophie Bulmer shares some of the key insights discussed in a recent webinar about the vaccination programme in London.

Francesca Faravelli is Clinical Director of the North Thames Genomic Medicine Service (GMS) Alliance, hosted by UCLPartners and supported by Imperial College Health Partners. In this blog Francesca considers how our understanding and use of genomics has evolved and explains how the newly launched North Thames GMS Alliance will bring the benefits of genomics to patients.

Daphne Amevenu is Deputy Programme Director for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and proactive care at UCLPartners. Here, Daphne reflects on the importance of involving patients and the public in healthcare design and explains the approach she has taken to ensure patients are influencing the way the UCLPartners’ proactive care programme develops.

How a translational research training resource was co-developed for researchers with patients and members of the public.

Programme Director for Mental Health and Behaviour Change, Professor Peter Fonagy, reflects on how innovation can enable the shift to a needs based approach to NHS mental health services.

Dr Sarah Armstrong, GP and UCLPartners Education Fellow shares learning from her journey creating and delivering an education programme for care home staff.

There is a need to change how rapid service evaluation is funded, co-ordinated and delivered, not just during but beyond the pandemic to enable more effective scale-up of health and care innovations, writes Prof Mike Roberts.