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The human impact of the NHS Innovation Accelerator: The Tolman’s story
Since joining the NHS Innovation Accelerator in 2015, Fellow Andrea Haworth has made significant impact with digital health innovation SAPIENTIA™ – a genome analytics software which enables healthcare…
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New £250m UK Dementia Research Institute to be led from UCL
UCLPartners welcomes today’s announcement by the Medical Research Council that UCL has been selected as the ‘hub’ of the new £250m UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI). The…
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Increasing identification and delivery of evidence-based care for people with known atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects around 1 million people (though around 250,000 of these are undiagnosed) in the UK; it causes irregular or abnormally fast heart rate and is…
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Technologies that ease pressure on urgent and emergency care services receive SBRI financial backing
With Accident and Emergency pressures well reported and as waiting times reach their highest level in more than a decade, SBRI Healthcare today announced £4.3 million investment in…
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Working with the voluntary and community sector
UCLPartners and the London Voluntary Sector Council have jointly produced a summary of the key points made in six reports on the voluntary and community sector, published throughout…
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Efficacy of a nutrition and lifestyle digital intervention in women planning a pregnancy
Start at the Beginning – a pilot randomised control trial conducted in primary care. The purpose of this pilot trial was to determine the feasibility and efficacy of…
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A shared outcome perinatal mental health value scorecard to support health visitors to improve outcomes for children 0-5 years and their families
UCLPartners successfully developed and tested a perinatal mental health scorecard – which aims to improve outcomes for children age 0-5, and their families – with four partner organisations.…
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DIY Health: Co-producing solutions for minor ailments in children
The DIY Health model aims to use co-production as the mechanism of action to improve the skills, knowledge and confidence of parents in managing minor ailments in children…
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UCLPartners supported research reveals diabetes screening alone ‘won’t have an impact on number of people developing the disease’
UCLPartners and Newham CCG supported research, published in the BMJ this month, suggests that the national programme to prevent people developing Type 2 diabetes is unlikely to have…
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Improving young lives through investment in innovation
£900K awarded to develop innovations that support self-care and independence in children with long term conditions With six percent of children in the UK living with disability, ingenious…