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.

Impact stories

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.
Enhancing patient safety with innovative technology

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust have partnered with Oxehealth to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of care on their inpatient mental health wards and have reported the first insights from the evaluation. We are working with Oxehealth on a larger scale real world validation of the Oxevision platform at EPUT and supporting the technology’s adoption at other NHS Trusts.
Cladribine – an innovative treatment for adults with highly active relapsing remitting MS

Clinical trials conducted by UCLPartners' AHSC from 2010-2015 showed that Cladribine is an effective oral treatment for highly active MS. Since then, UCLPartners has been driving the spread and adoption of the drug in clinical practice.
Increasing use of the COPD Discharge Bundle in acute trusts

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) has developed a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) discharge care bundle that aims to improve care, help patients manage their condition at home, and reduce readmissions. As one of 15 patient safety collaboratives in England, UCLPartners has supported nine trusts to adopt the care bundle for patients admitted to hospital with COPD.
London AHSNs work together to embed virtual consultations across the capital

Three London Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) worked together to support Trusts in the region to quickly embed virtual consultations to safeguard patients and staff during the pandemic.
SIM: managing complex mental health needs through collaboration

We have implemented SIM with partners across our region to bring together police and healthcare professionals to make a positive difference to the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
Understanding the impact of training to identify and refer women affected by domestic violence and abuse

Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) is a primary-care-delivered, evidence-based intervention to improve the health, safety and experience of women affected by domestic violence and abuse.
Preventing prescribing errors in general practice

We have been supporting the roll out of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention for reducing clinically important errors (PINCER)
Managing deterioration in out of hospital settings

We worked with four partner organisations to improve the experience and outcomes for people cared for in the community who are at risk of physical deterioration, by testing and implementing two innovative approaches: Significant 7+ and Whzan.
Supporting the set-up of non face-to-face clinics

We synthesised learning and practical insights from our NHS partners and patients to create a unique online guide to setting up non-face-to-face clinics which has been viewed more than 7,000 times and has informed virtual clinic set up pre- and post-COVID.