17th December 2019
Music can play a valuable role in recovery from mental illness. It can stimulate emotional responses, develop creative, technical, social and vocational skills, confidence and self-esteem. Key Changes a London-based charity provides wellbeing and recovery services through music to young people. This December, Key Changes artists have come together to record a song that highlights […]
11th December 2019
The London Mental Health Transformation programme is encouraging those with an interest in mental health to participate in an online survey to inform the future direction of London’s Mental Health Dashboard. In 2016 the London Mental Health Transformation programme developed the London Mental Health Dashboard to act as a strategic planning tool for London, bringing […]
10th December 2019
Healthy London Partnership (HLP) and the London Fire Brigade (LFB) have been working in partnership to support the capital’s most vulnerable communities to stay safe in their homes, reduce risks around fire safety and address health and wellbeing needs. This type of collaboration is a key component in the prevention agenda and was established after […]
26th November 2019
Demand for diagnostics is growing year on year and this is a major challenge for the NHS. Sourcing additional radiology or endoscopy capacity to address short or medium-term service pressures is not always possible or appropriate. Good patient flow and optimal utilisation of diagnostics capacity needs to be an integral part of service delivery. In […]
21st November 2019
By Merry Wright, West London EMHP I am a trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP), one of the first EMHPs to be trained across the country, under a national programme to increase the workforce of child and young people early intervention mental health practitioners. My role as a trainee EMHP makes up the frontline of […]
18th November 2019
Dr Phillipa Hyman, Macmillan Clinical Health Lead and Clinical Psychologist from the Transforming Cancer Services Team at Healthy London Partnership has won a Macmillan Professional Excellence Award for excellence in integrated care. The annual awards ceremony hosted by Macmillan recognises and celebrates the outstanding contribution that professionals make to cancer services on a local, regional […]
12th November 2019
By Dr Rhiannon England, GP Clinical Lead for Mental Health, City and Hackney CCG and Dan Burningham, Mental Health Programme Director The recent targets set by NHS England for serious mental illness (SMI) annual physical health checks may seem difficult to obtain and provoke questions about clinical value. Let us tell you how you can […]
7th November 2019
London Perinatal Mental Health Network narrowly missed out on a prestigious award at the worlds most fiercely contested health service awards now in their 39th year. London Perinatal Mental Health Network which provides professional forums to promote engagement; sharing of best practice by addressing system challenges, was shortlisted for the Acute or Specialist Service Redesign […]
7th November 2019
By Lydia Davies, Project Support Officer, Health Innovation Network I’m a young person, a 22-year-old woman living and working in London. I look around City Hall and see many other young women like myself and realise that 1 in 4 of us will experience living with anxiety or depression and 70 per cent of us […]
29th October 2019
By Dr Richard Graham, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Lead, Good Thinking. One in six adults in London will experience mental ill health in any week but almost two-thirds of those in need are not accessing support services. If we are to make London the healthiest city in the world, we need to support people with anxiety, […]
