This website uses cookies to help us understand the way visitors use our website. We can't identify you with them and we don't share the data with anyone else. If you click Reject we will set a single cookie to remember your preference. Find out more in our privacy policy.

Latest

Catch-up on our latest news, blogs, impact stories and reports on our work in partnership to solve the biggest health challenges facing people living in our communities.

Blog post - 13 March 2020

Improving care for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy surgery

This Patient Safety Week, Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Sam Bampoe, shares how our Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative is bringing surgical teams together, helping to improve care for patients.
Blog post - 12 March 2020
Doing things differently

Dr Matt Kearney, GP and Programme Director at UCLPartners, looks at transforming our ways of working in primary care and taking a different approach to help prevent cardiovascular disease.
- Cardiovascular health
Blog post - 10 March 2020
With realistic expectations non face-to-face (virtual) clinics offer significant benefits

Following the launch of our online guide to setting up a non face-to-face clinic, we share some of the key challenges and opportunities commonly encountered when implementing this model of care.
News item - 5 March 2020
NIA announce new Fellows

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has recently announced the 11 innovators who are joining the award-winning national accelerator in 2020. This launches the fifth year of the NI...
Blog post - 24 February 2020

The AHSN Network: supporting health-tech companies to access international markets

The AHSN Network, in partnership with the Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI), supported a number of UK companies to fulfil their export agenda and attend the international conference, Arab Health in Dubai, UAE.
Impact story - 20 February 2020
Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing

In 2019, our Quality Improvement Collaborative programme supported General Practice staff in South East Essex to develop and implement local improvement projects, tackling major challenges faced by their surgeries. Here, staff from Dr Palacin’s surgery describe their work to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions.
News item - 7 February 2020
Over 3000 North London residents at high risk of stroke receive potentially lifesaving therapy

Recently released figures reveal that a programme rolled out across north central and north east London to reduce strokes related to an irregular heart rhythm have led to an additional 3,050 people receiving potentially lifesaving therapy over the last year. This is expected to prevent an additional 80 life-changing strokes this year and every year in the future.
- Cardiovascular health
Blog post - 6 February 2020

The top five questions the NHS will ask (about your product or service)

Mark Otto Smith of UCLPartners’ Commercial and Innovation team outlines the five key questions you need to answer to successfully commercialise your product or service in the NHS. He has met hundreds of innovators through the AHSNs and Healthcare UK and has distilled key points on commercialisation in the NHS into a 5-minute read below.
News item - 28 January 2020
UCLPartners launch new guide on how to set-up non face-to-face clinics

A free online guide from UCLPartners to setting up non-face-to-face clinics for NHS managers and clinicians has launched today. Non face-to-face clinics (also known as virtual clin...
Blog post - 23 January 2020
Collaborating to reduce harm – How our network is making invasive procedures safer

The new year and new decade provides a perfect opportunity to reflect and consider what we have achieved and hope to achieve for safety. Coming together to improve care and reduce ...