Blogs

Matt Kearney on supporting primary care to do things differently and at scale as we emerge from the pandemic. Discussing the expansion of NHS Proactive Care @home, and how the UCLPartners Proactive Care Frameworks assist to deliver optimised care for long term conditions.

October 2021 is national cholesterol month. High cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease and accounts for a third of all heart attacks. Cholesterol has been a 'cinderella' condition since cholesterol indicators were largely removed from GP contract in 2014. The NHS Long Term Plan has put cholesterol back in the spotlight as one of the high-risk cardiovascular conditions requiring improved detection and management.

Dr Swapna Mandal and Alexandra Hellyer from our patient safety team share how learning from respiratory teams at acute hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic can be harnessed to improve practice in the future.

Helen Craig discusses how patient and public involvement and engagement sat at the heart of a new programme to support people with long COVID, ensuring that the work focused on the symptoms that matter to patients – and that the digital solution was useable for all.

Network Development Lead Sophie Bulmer shares insights from the latest Doing Things Differently webinar on the future of care, based on a recent publication from Care City.

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.