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Health writer, editor and clean air advocate Penny Hosie says woodburning stoves should be taken seriously as an asthma trigger. Here she explains why Several years ago, when my children were young, I visited my sister in Cornwall shortly after Christmas. It was a long drive and my eldest daughter, then aged 7,  was at […]

GP retention is a challenge which requires both a national and a local response. In Haringey, there are a high number of GPs retiring or close to retirement age, providing innovative and exciting portfolio careers is one way of attracting newly qualified GP’s to the area. With this in mind,  the Newly Qualified GP Fellowship […]

September is Blood Cancer awareness month and we want to highlight the importance of being aware of the signs and understanding that early diagnosis is vital. Around 3,500 people in London are diagnosed each year with some form of blood cancer, and there are more than 22,000 people living with a blood cancer in London. […]

The Middlesex Pharmaceutical Group (MPG) of Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) was asked to make a pledge: What promise could the MPG make (and keep) to help improve the health of patients with asthma, a reversible condition? Let’s take a step back. The MPG is the organisation responsible for LPCs across 9 boroughs of North Central […]

by Tom Holliday, Paediatric Registrar & Darzi 10 Fellow I never saw myself working in paediatric asthma. As a paediatric registrar working in secondary care, my experience of asthma was as an acute condition. Every winter large numbers of young people would flood into A&E and I would help by treating their acute attack. Either […]

One year on since the first SIM service user joined the programme the Health Innovation Network (HIN) has published the SIM South London End of Year Report. SIM is an innovative mental health transformation programme that provides support to people with serious mental illness that are also high intensity users of public services. SIM is […]

For the third year running, Healthy London Partnership and NHS England (London region), supported by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, are running a campaign #AskAboutAsthma from the 16-22 September, to help improve the lives of those living with asthma in the capital. An estimated 200,000 people in the UK have severe asthma, this is […]

Dr Siân Howell, GP in Southwark and Clinical Lead for Access in the Transforming Primary Care Team at Healthy London Partnership (HLP) About five years ago, on a miserable and wet evening and after a long day at work, I was sitting with Southwark GP colleagues in a crumbly NHS meeting room, thinking how we […]

London is to become the first city to enable a majority of its general practitioners (GPs) to refer patients to a series of clinically-proven, commissioned digital therapeutic apps, to support people experiencing the four most common mental health concerns; low mood, stress, sleep and anxiety. The move sees Good Thinking, London’s digital well-being service, in […]

Evaluation Report published Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) for older adults with common mental health issues (depression, anxiety) is a national and local south London priority. IAPT is as effective for older people as for those of working age. Typically, this age group tends to respond well to talking therapies but currently have low […]