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153 posts in: ‘Blog’
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Reducing carbon emissions in orthopaedic services
Hear from research associates Catherine Borra and Rebecca Wood at Barts Health NHS Trust about their project which aims to embed carbon costing within a randomised clinical trial…
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Enhancing opportunities for talented Black health data scientists
Hear from Jessica Mtemeri and Saharla Warsame on their experiences at UCLPartners as part of the Health Data Science Black Internship Programme.
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Time for a step change in CVD prevention
Dr Matt Kearney challenges the longstanding NHS tolerance of suboptimal care that drives cardiovascular disease – and the potential use of routine GP data that would prevent thousands…
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Can a learning health system approach improve workplace wellbeing?
Dr Mike Nicholls - Emergency Physician at Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand, and PhD candidate - offers reflections build a culture of continuous improvement, which inspires, informs, and…
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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…
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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 allow these to be…
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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…
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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)…
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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.
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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…