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Impact stories

Reducing the disease burden for hypertension – how an integrated approach is improving patient care

Our video case study highlights how using the Proactive Care Frameworks can promote collaborative working in primary care and enhance patient outcomes and experiences.
Capturing staff insights and making improvements through Bedside Learning Coordinators

The Bedside Learning Coordinator (BLC) role was designed to capture staff insights and provide rapid feedback to leadership teams to inform decision-making and communicate changes with staff and support improvements.
Proactive Care Frameworks: Implementation lessons learned in Cheshire and Merseyside

Hear from Jane Briers who gives an overview of their achievements, key learning and challenges to date, since implementing the proactive care frameworks in the North West of England as one of the four pilot sites.
Proactive Care Frameworks – Listen to our engagement and mobilisation phase talks

Listen to two short talks from our colleagues in North Central London and North East London on the approaches they took when applying the UCLPartners Proactive Care Frameworks and their experiences to date.
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.