Blogs

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.

UCLPartners Health Technology Advisor Gareth Cairns discusses how point of care and at home testing has come to the fore in the pandemic and looks at some examples that are proving valuable in this space.

A major concern for general practice is how to continue with the essential covid response while providing proactive care to patients who are at highest risk of deterioration.

Health and care services have innovated quickly in response to the pandemic. But how do we evaluate rapid implementations made at scale?

Dr Jenny Shand explains how creating the role of Bedside Learning Co-ordinator at the Nightingale Hospital London helped capture frontline insights on improving patient care, efficiency, and staff well-being.

Our Managing Director Prof Mike Roberts provides an update on how we are supporting the response to COVID-19.

Head of Education and Simulation Programmes Lucy Brock introduces a new series of videos released by the London Transformation and Learning Collaborative on how to cope with the psychological impact of the pandemic.

On 9 October we held the third in our “Doing Things Differently” series of virtual learning sessions, this time on a topic that was brought into sharp focus in recent months, care homes.

Dr Erin Walker describes how UCLPartners has involved patients and carers in discussions about COVID-19 rehabilitation needs and how lessons learned have fed into London wide commissioning guidance.

UCLPartners Programme Director Dr Matt Kearney looks at the Kings Fund Report on tech innovations transforming the way routine care is delivered during COVID-19 and asks whether this technology can now be harnessed to support the management of long term conditions post-covid.