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The Health Innovation Network’s Patient Safety Collaborative, has held its first of many ‘Communities of Practice' event - an exciting first step in improving patient safety across South London.
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The CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) South London team of alcohol researchers along with the Alcohol Team at the Health Innovation Network are developing a smartphone app. The app could help large numbers of young adults invest in their future health by cutting down the amount of alcohol they consume. The app, to be designed like a game, will enable people to assess whether the amount of alcohol they drink puts them at risk of developing health problems – and encourage them to measure and reduce their intake.
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A mix of London Ambulance Service (LAS) operational road staff, managers and control room staff attended an education session with the aim of better understanding the importance of referring patients who had suffered a hypoglycaemic episode.
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The Health Innovation Network Dementia Programme team has been working with care workers in four South London care homes to co-design a dementia case-finding tool to increase dementia diagnosis rates and ensure residents get more appropriate care. Read more…
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The third workshop in the series took place on Monday 28 April . On this occasion, the clinical teams had the opportunity to listen to the group of patients give their views about services and ideas for improvement.
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Webinars will be taking place throughout the week – Health Innovation Network Dementia Programme team contributing to two: Working with Care Homes and Life After Diagnosis
- Dementia Awareness - Monday 18 May Register here
- Advanced Care Planning - Tuesday 19 May Register here
- Dementia Friendly Hospitals - Wednesday 20 May Register here
- Working with Care Homes - Thursday 21 May Register here
- Life after Diagnosis - Friday 22 May Register here
Visit the National Skills Academy website to find out more
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Find out more about how Lewisham CCG is creating Dementia Friendly Community.
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Annually, King's College London open their doors to showcase the latest in cutting-edge dementia research.
Alzheimer's day is co-hosted by Alzheimer's Research UK
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There is still time to register for this event.
The Health Innovation Network and UCL Partners are working in partnership to host their Medicines Optimisation Roadshow to explore how the local health system can improve care and treatment for patients through effective medicines optimisation and the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).
Hosted in partnership with NHS England and the ABPI, the event will focus on adopting innovation in to practice and will bring together local clinical, financial and operational leaders to accelerate the use of innovative, clinically and cost effective medicines, improving outcomes for patients.
For more information click here
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A NICE perspective on pharmaceutical product development - 13 May
A one day seminar designed to provide an introduction to the general principles of health technology assessment (HTA) for non-experts and to understand the benefit of scientific advice meetings, integrating HTA and health economic thinking, into drug development plans at an early stage. Please click the link below for further information and to register.
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Advice seminar for developers of devices and diagnostics - 20 May
A one day introductory seminar for the developers of medical technologies and members of the investor community, who want to understand how NICE defines value and to help companies develop value propositions and plan evidence generation strategies for their products. Please click the link below for further information and to register.
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A ‘walk in my shoes’ project in Lewisham has allowed GPs, clinical and administrative practice staff to visit community pharmacies to gain insight into the working environment of community pharmacy.
The project is part of the Medicine Optimisation Education Training (MOET) programme, which was created to develop medicine optimisation activities in the Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area.
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East Midlands AHSN and CLAHRC EM launched launched an Advance Planning guide for people living with Bipolar Disorder. The booklet has been downloaded around 20,000 times and they are looking for feedback on the booklet and how useful it has been
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Skills for Care’s Workforce Development Innovation Fund supports innovative projects that increase the skills and competence of staff. Its fundamental aim is to improve service quality and embed person centred values within the workforce.
A new round has opened – further information (including bidding documentation and key priorities) will be available from 8am here
If you have an innovative workforce development project which is in development, being tested, being improved or is looking to reach new audiences then this might be for you.
Information about projects that have been previously funded can be found here
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