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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 - 14 November 2018
Improving quality in care homes: a story of creativity, engagement and spread

Lesley Cruickshank describes how an innovative approach to improving care in care homes has achieved positive results for staff and residents, and has gained traction across the county.
News item - 12 November 2018
Staff improvement ideas get a boost with new app

Three healthcare organisations in our partnership have successfully piloted ImproveWell, a smartphone app that encourages and enables healthcare staff on the frontline to make impr...
News item - 5 November 2018

Review highlights potential bigger role for specialist trusts

A new report by UCLPartners and the Innovation Agency outlines how high-performing specialist trusts have the potential to do more to benefit the wider NHS. A review of around one-...
News item - 5 November 2018

Understanding the performance and potential of specialist trusts

Many of England’s 21 specialist trusts have created international reputations for academic and clinical excellence. They also score higher than other trusts in ratings for perfor...
Blog post - 1 November 2018
Learning from what goes well in health care, not just from what goes wrong

It seems strange to think that, as recently as 25 years ago, the field of patient safety didn’t really exist. At that time, the harm caused by healthcare either wasn’t routinel...
Blog post - 26 October 2018
The spread challenge (and why invention is only half the story)

John Illingworth shares his reflections on the unique challenges innovation adoption in healthcare can bring.
News item - 25 October 2018
Trusts to pilot device that helps detect deteriorating patients

UCLPartners is supporting four trusts to take part in the set-up phase for a pilot of RespiraSense, the world’s only continuous and motion-tolerant respiratory rate monitor. Resp...
News item - 23 October 2018

More patients to be given access to innovative MS treatment through new Government ‘rapid uptake’ scheme

An innovative Multiple Sclerosis (MS) treatment, brought to market as a result of clinical trials by teams at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary Un...
News item - 23 October 2018
Care City achieves further NHS test bed funding to improve care for people with long-term conditions

Care City in North East London has been announced as one of seven Test Beds selected for Wave 2 of NHS England’s Test Bed Programme, which aims to test combinations of innovation...
Blog post - 18 October 2018
Mental health – developing, testing and spreading what works

Working in partnership is crucial to improve the mental health of our population. This is how we develop, evaluate and spread new and effective ways to support our population’s mental health.
- Adolescent mental health