16th October 2019
A guide to social prescribing in London has been launched to transform the health of Londoners enabling them to access not just medical treatments but also provide them with the support to access community-based interventions. At least 20 per cent of people visit their GP for non-medical reasons. Social prescribing is a way of reducing visits […]
15th October 2019
The Mental Health Transformation Team are delighted to launch resources on HoNOS and DIALOG, designed to promote the use of patient outcome measures in Mental Health. Measuring outcome measures provides a way for patients, clinicians and the health and care systems to understand the impact of the care provided. Outcome measures can be used to […]
10th October 2019
London’s citywide movement to improve mental health and wellbeing, Thrive LDN, has worked in partnership with the Mayor of London’s Peer Outreach Team to takeover City Hall for an all-day young Londoner-led festival to mark World Mental Health Day (WMHD) 2019. The festival, which took place throughout the public spaces of City Hall on […]
10th October 2019
A project to improve care by empowering social care professionals to digitally connect with the NHS and accelerate the flow of vital information between health organisations and care homes in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Havering and Sutton has won a prestigious award. The collaborative project between Healthy London Partnership, Accenture and NHS Digital received an award […]
10th October 2019
Dr. Ofra Koffman, Senior Project Manager, Healthy London Partnership Those with a severe mental illness suffer poor physical health compared with those without these illnesses and are likely to die younger as a result. More than 100,000 Londoners are living with a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Current statistics suggest that […]
9th October 2019
On Tuesday 1 October, Healthy London Partnership delivered a workshop on supporting the implementation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper commitments in Trailblazer areas and beyond. Speakers included the Department of Education, NHS England and NHS Improvement. The event saw approximately 90 attendees from across partnership organisations – including health, education, […]
9th October 2019
The market for Social Prescribing Case Management has been growing increasingly as Primary Care Networks start to employ Social Prescribing Link Workers. To help commissioners make an informed choice HLP commissioned the Health Innovation Network to conduct a market scoping review. The report provides a shortlist of products and their capabilities, and is available here
27th September 2019
The National Clinical Audit is a yearly survey conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that evaluates services against national clinical standards for Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams. The London EIP Improvement Programme hosted an event with all London EIP services on Thursday 26 September 2019 with Paul French (Clinical Lead of the National […]
27th September 2019
We have a shared ambition to make London the world’s healthiest global city, and the best global city in which to receive health and care services. We know we need to work together across public services and wider society, both to make the most of opportunities for good health and tackle issues that cause poor […]
27th September 2019
The Healthy London Partnership Child Death Review Programme was established in 2016 to support the 28 London Child Death Overview Panels (CDOPs) to standardise and improve the quality of child death reviews, identify learning and system improvements, and reduce child mortality. Since 2017, the programme has supported the health systems in London to come together […]
