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Impact stories

Lifesaving stroke prevention initiative making a significant impact

An initiative to optimise care for people with atrial fibrillation by monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol – high risk factors for heart disease, stroke and dementia, has shown considerable benefit to patients in North East London.
A refreshed approach to long-term condition care in the East Midlands

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.
Detecting heart arrhythmias with FibriCheck app during the pandemic

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.
Improving care for asthma patients in north west England

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.
Improving healthcare communication for people with learning disabilities

UCLPartners has supported a partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust and software developers, Maldaba, to improve quality of care for people with cognitive impairment, specifically adults with learning disabilities. They have implemented an app and content-sharing remote web service, which has had a positive impact on patients, their family and carers, and staff.
Whole genome sequencing to identify transmission clusters and variants of concern

The COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium conducted large-scale, rapid whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The data generated provided critical information on transmission clusters occurring in the workplace, pubs, clubs and schools. The work is estimated to have saved thousands of lives.
Using rapid viral sequencing to understand COVID-19 transmission in hospitals

Rapid viral sequencing information was provided to infection, prevention and control teams in hospitals to discover whether this would allow them to implement control measures more accurately and faster to reduce spread of COVID. The results from this study will be critical to planning what is needed to harness genomic data linked to patient data for controlling hospital outbreaks and managing individual patients.
Uniting clinical and academic leaders across London to evaluate changes in care

The London Evaluation Cell, established in June 2020, has led to the development of a network that enables collaboration and knowledge sharing that did not previously exist. This enables clinical and academic health leaders to collectively identify and set evaluation priorities, with the aim of rapidly translating knowledge into service provision across the regional care sector.
Providing enhanced remote monitoring for COVID-19 patients

Through our Patient Safety Collaborative we supported the use of pulse oximeters in our local health and care system, to enable COVID patients to safely monitor their condition from home.
Proactive care frameworks transform care for patients with long-term conditions during COVID-19

UCLPartners team developed a series of long-term condition frameworks (for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, COPD, asthma, atrial fibrillation and lipids) that have supported primary care teams to transform the way they deliver proactive care for patients.