Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the Winter edition of our quarterly snapshot – a quick look at some of the work and impact of ICHP over the last few months.
We’ve had some huge achievements over this period and I’m incredibly proud of our team and the NWL health and care system. We’ve continued to adapt our offer in order to support our members and clients to tackle the evolving Covid-19 crisis, which has continued to dominate globally and locally, as effectively as possible, particularly as local priorities have shifted.
We've continued to actively participate in the spread of the vaccination and ensuring the health and safety of the NWL population - including helping design the roll out of vaccinations in schools. We mobilised the first in-school vaccination in London, with our plans and resources regularly being shared as exemplars across the capital. We also ran an excellently received pathway design workshop for post-Covid-19 syndrome, as part of our ongoing work with North West London ICS on Post-Covid Assessment and Recovery Services.
Our real world evidence portfolio, Discover-NOW, continues to go from strength to strength. Our relationships with industry and pharma continue to strengthen, with recent highlights including our ongoing partnership with AstraZeneca to deliver studies in diabetes, Covid-19 and other priority areas and our recently published research into men's health with Besins. We'll also shortly be launching a new service offer and website.
We have also won a number of bids for new projects due to start shortly, focusing on our Discover-NOW chronic kidney disease (CKD) work, an attitudinal piece around the respiratory syncytial virus and we’ll also be starting a data related deliberation for Our Future Health.
We've been evolving our public deliberation work, working closely with our partners Ipsos Mori, and offering a public dialogue and deliberation service to organisations making complex health policy, which has been very well received - including our work on Community Diagnostic Hubs for NHS England.
I'm enormously thankful to our hardworking team, and the dedication and enthusiasm they have shown in supporting North West London’s response to the pandemic, through what has proved to be another difficult time for all of us. I feel honoured that our team have been able to continue supporting local handling of the crisis, and we will continue to support our partners in the coming weeks and months.
You can see some of our key achievements from the last 12 months in our Impact Report below.
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for our latest news updates.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy Winter.
Regards,
Axel
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Supporting Vaccination Roll-out
With the start of the national Covid-19 vaccination programme in December 2020, North West London (NWL) was faced with having to organise one of its biggest vaccination programmes – with rapid turnaround times and new knowledge and guidelines emerging on a daily basis.
With major efforts from NHS bodies and local authorities across all eight NWL boroughs, the NWL Covid-19 Vaccination Programme was set-up and run by the NWL Collaboration of Health and Care Partnership, having administered its first vaccinations in December 2020.
Due to the unprecedented task, Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) were asked to support the vaccination programme, working as one team alongside ICS colleagues.
Lena Woldmann. ICHP's Senior Innovation Advisor, writes on our contribution to the vaccination effort in NWL.
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Community Diagnostic Hubs
NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned ICHP and our delivery partners Ipsos MORI to design and deliver an engagement programme with patients and the public, as well as diagnostic professionals, that could help shape the future design and roll out of CDCs in London.
Through a series of four deliberative workshops, 15 in-depth interviews and two co-design workshops, rich insights and experiences were gathered and key dilemmas and trade-offs deliberated, that then shaped the co-production of a set of design principles to help inform the future planning and roll out of CDCs across London.
The report setting out the findings of this work and the analysis of the detailed discussions has been shared with ICSs across London who are now using the outputs to inform their future planning and delivery of community diagnostics across the capital.
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Discover-NOW
We have seen huge progress for our Discover-NOW programme, the Health Data Research Hub for Real World Evidence, over the last quarter. We signed two new contracts for new direct data access to Discover data, which will pave its way for a full launch of the Trusted Research Environment as a standalone service. This is first of its kind for Discover and brings opportunities for companies to do innovative research themselves.
We have furthered collaboration with our data partner OpenHealth and started a major Real World Analysis project on Psoriasis. We also won a significant project on Obesity with our technology hub partner North West EHealth, a great example of another vendor collaboration supporting a generation of new evidence.
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ICHP Impact Report 2021
In August we published the latest edition of our Impact Report which highlights our work from the last 12 months.
We’ve worked closely with our members and clients as local priorities have shifted to focus on the wider implications from the pandemic, including addressing disparities in vaccination rollout for our diverse population, remote monitoring of patients impacted by Covid-19 and the remodelling of safe, local non-emergency care at a time when face-to-face contact has been extremely limited. Our strong expertise in analytics, strategy, project management and communications have continued to be invaluable to their response to the pandemic.
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Networked Data Lab:
The Health Foundation’s Networked Data Lab (NDL), of which ICHP is a key partner, published a new national report in October, suggesting that there is now significant unmet health need and worsening mental health of the ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’.
In conjunction with this, ICHP, which runs the NDL for North West London in collaboration with Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and North West London’s CCGs, also published its first Satellite Analysis Report focusing on the mental health of shielding patients in North West London during COVID-19.
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Care Homes Patient Safety Network Event
In addition to supporting NWL care homes in participating in the National Medicines Safety Improvement Programme , we also hosted NWL’s first Care Homes Safety Network Event in September.
The event was well attended by system stakeholders across all eight NWL boroughs, with attendees working in roles across the board, from care home managers and registered nurses to PCN pharmacists. As well as a case study from an NWL Care Home that had successfully participated in the national programme, attendees had the chance to connect in smaller breakout rooms and discussed how they would like to use the network events in the future.
We'll be hosting the NWL Care Home Safety Network Event every quarter going forward, discussing a different topic at each. The next Network Event will be hosted in January 2022 - if you are interested and would like to receive an invitation, please contact Lena Woldmann.
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ADHD: Reducing time to diagnosis
In partnership with two other London AHSNs, Health Innovation Network (HIN) and UCL Partners (UCLP), we recently held a pan-London webinar looking at ADHD diagnostics,
During the session, delegates heard more about the National Focus ADHD programme, which aims to roll-out an innovative technology called QbTest® across England to enable NHS mental health trusts and community paediatric services to improve the ADHD assessment and treatment offer to children and young people.
If you weren’t able to make the event but work in child services and want to learn more about ADHD diagnostics, you can catch up on our website.
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HDRUK Black Internship
ICHP are proud to have been partnering with Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) to lead by example in the health data science industry in response to the issue that Black people are heavily underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) community.
This Summer we welcomed Gibril Gaye and Meron Kifle, two paid interns as part of HDR UK’s Black internship programme, which has seen 54 interns recruited to the partnerships that form the HDR UK co-ordinated UK Health Data Research Alliance (HDR Alliance). We had a chat with the interns before they continue onto the next steps of their careers reflecting on their ambitions of the internship and time at ICHP.
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Thanks for reading the latest edition of Snapshot.
We're always on the look out for latest news or information.
Please do get in contact.
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