Blogs

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.

Elias Zapantis reflects on recent steps taken to improve diversity in the NHS workforce and shares some of the actions AHSNs are making to improve inclusivity in the recruitment process.

Our Technology Evaluation Lead, Elias Zapantis, writes about LGBT+ History Month, reflects on what it means for those who work in healthcare and shares some of the activities undertaken at UCLPartners to further knowledge and raise awareness.

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?