UCLPartners announced the joint-winner of two Innovate Awards
Last night, at an awards ceremony held at the Royal Leonardo Hotel in London, representatives from our Enterprise team and our Cardiovascular Health team were handed Innovate Award trophies and crowded winners of the ‘Excellence in Patient and Public Involvement in Transformation and Innovation’ and ‘Outstanding Contribution to Population Health Through Innovation’ awards respectively.
Michael Duffin, Commercial Lead at UCLPartners said: “We are incredibly proud to have won this award! We were shortlisted for the HSJ 2022 HealthTech Partnership of the year award previously, so we are delighted to go a step further by winning this time round.
“This recognition and the success of the Living With Covid Recovery programme demonstrates the importance of involving patients in the design and development of a product. It is because of their insight that the digitally enabled pathway meets an unmet clinical need and can make a significant and quantifiable difference to patients when deployed in the real world.”
The Living With Covid Recovery app was developed in partnership with UCL, Barts Health NHS Trust, NIHR ARC North Thames, NIHR ARC Wessex, University of Southampton, University of Exeter and health-tech start-up, Living With. It was designed to address the long COVID research and guidance gap that was leaving some patients feeling isolated, as if there were no answers for how to best manage their condition. It is currently in use across 30 NHS trusts, helping 5,500 patients and their medical teams to better manage the symptoms of long COVID.
The team spoke to hundreds of patients, gathering their real-life experiences. Asking them what they wanted and needed to feel supported and cared for as they navigated their Long COVID recovery.
Laura Boyd, Director of Implementation for Cardiovascular Health at UCLPartners said: “It’s a real honour to be judged as winners in this first year of the Innovate Awards – we couldn’t be happier! I want to say a big thank you to all the AHSNs who have tirelessly supported the development and implementation of the Proactive Care Frameworks locally. They are already delivering improvements in patient care and have been extraordinarily positively received by primary care colleagues. Thank you.”
Our Proactive Care Frameworks, adopted by 30 primary care networks across North Central London and North East London, and supported nationally by all 15 AHSNs as part of the National Blood Pressure Optimisation programme, were developed with the aim of helping primary care to weather and emerge from the COVID pandemic stronger, able to restore and transform care for people who are living with long term conditions.
The Frameworks have been included in the Royal College of GPs national pandemic recovery guidance and the Hypertension Framework is a core part of the National Blood Pressure Optimisation Programme. Primary Care teams up and down the country are using our Frameworks to better identify and care for their patients who are most at risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, asthma, severe mental illness and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Dr Chris Laing, CEO of UCLPartners said: “I was delighted to hear that UCLPartners won two categories of the Innovate Awards for our work on Living With and the Proactive Care Frameworks. I know you’ll join me in congratulating the team on their success and thanks to all for the hard work on these projects”
The Living With Covid Recovery app shared its Innovate Award with Rethink Mental Illness’ co-production work with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust. Our PCFs shared their Innovate Award with the Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership’s Anchoring Southend project.