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News

Our latest announcements about our work and related issues across the wider health and care system.

8 January 2019
NHS long-term plan supports mental health initiative for young people

An initiative developed with UCLPartners to support young people’s mental health has been endorsed by the long-term NHS plan, published yesterday. The plan, which lays out how th...
- Child health
- Mental health
- Population health
8 January 2019

Changing the shape of children and young people’s mental health services – How can we help our children to thrive?

For many years England’s health and social care services have come up against criticism for not providing the same access to care or quality of care for mental health needs as fo...
7 January 2019

Role of AHSNs to simplify pipeline for healthcare innovation highlighted in NHS Long Term Plan

With its clear emphasis on research and innovation for patient benefit, the NHS Long Term Plan published today is warmly welcomed by the AHSN Network. Heralded as the blueprint to ...
19 December 2018
Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative launched across UCLPartners

UCLPartners is inviting staff from across the region to join the Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative, supporting hospitals to improve outcomes for patients who undergo the procedure...
- Patient safety
- Quality improvement
10 December 2018
Largest ever UK lung cancer screening study aims to improve early detection

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and UCL have launched plans to embark upon the largest ever lung cancer screening project in the UK. The SUMMIT Stud...
- Cancer
26 November 2018
Second cohort of health and care professionals announced as Aspiring Improvers

UCLPartners has selected 12 individuals to partake in the second round of our Aspiring Improvers programme. The participants come from a range of organisations across North Central...
- Quality improvement
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...
- Health tech
- Quality improvement
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-...
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...
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...
- Health tech