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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.

Lakeside Healthcare Group uses the UCLPartners Proactive Care Frameworks to redesign staffing models and reprioritise workload. Freeing up capacity to deliver additional smear tests and their highest learning disabilities checks to date.

FibriCheck is a smartphone application that allows patients to check their heart rhythm at home without needing any additional equipment. FibriCheck partnered with Wanstead and Woodford primary care network, leveraging their flu clinic outreach to identify and engage at-risk CVD patients to monitor their heart using their app.

The Innovation Agency – the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) covering the North West Coast of England, is working with GP practices in Knowsley to help improve care of patients with asthma. By using the UCLPartners Proactive Care asthma framework they have been able to reduce high risk patients by almost 50% based on the principles of the programme.

New study by UCLPartners and NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) North Thames will help to inform future research recruitment.

Abstracts invited for conference exploring health service research and innovation in civilian and military medicine, to be held on Friday 18 March 2022.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Dominique Allwood as Director of Improvement and Partnerships at UCLPartners.

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.

UCLPartners has launched its first Innovation Fellowship, aimed at NHS innovators working in Integrated Care Services (ICSs) in the London and Essex region.

New online training modules provide an introduction to Quality Improvement, including how to implement a QI project.