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  1. Checking in: Voices of young people during lockdown

    Healthy London Partnership, Partnership for Young London, and Tik Tok have been collaborating on a project to run a bi-weekly listening project with young people aged 14-24 in and around London to better understand their experience of Covid-19. This report is part of an ongoing research programme into how young people are getting on during […]

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  2. New eating disorders guidelines launched for educational professionals

    To coincide with Eating Disorders Awareness Week (2-8 March 2020), Healthy London Partnership, has launched guidelines – in partnership with Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity – for educational professionals about helping children and young people with eating disorders to seek treatment. These guidelines are being dispatched to schools and colleges across London to increase […]

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  3. Guidelines for primary care professionals on referring children and young people with eating disorders endorsed

    In partnership with Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, we have produced guidelines for primary care professionals about treating children and young people with eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions. There are many common eating disorders and it is vital that children and young people with eating disorders and their families and […]

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  4. HLP’s London Health Podcast launch edition tackles homeless health and hospital discharge

    The Healthy London Partnership launches the ‘The London Health Podcast’ today, with homeless health and challenges around NHS hospital discharge the theme for this month’s episode. Length of stay for homeless people are around three times longer and around 70% of rough sleepers are discharged back onto the street, further damaging their health and costing the […]

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  5. Peer support pack for Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams

    The peer support pack was co-produced with the EIP Clinical Reference Group (CRG) Lived Experience representative and funded through Health Education England as part of developing new roles initiative. The EIP CRG were keen to explore paid peer support role in their teams and agreed that the development of the package would ensure equity across […]

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  6. Citywide movement for mental health is helping Londoners to thrive

    More than 200,000 people took part in events and activities to improve mental health and tackle inequalities as part of the Thrive LDN movement in 2019. More than 35,000 Londoners have supported a citywide Zero Suicide London campaign by taking free, online suicide prevention training. 1,200 people participated in film-based outreach and events for Londoners […]

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  7. The health and care vision for London

    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 […]

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  8. Child death review programme report launched

    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 […]

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  9. Hillingdon’s children’s asthma team approach the busiest time of the year – Blog

    Alison Summerfield, Nurse Consultant – Paediatric Respiratory & Allergy We now have sixty-nine schools (both state and independent) within the borough that are certified as “Asthma Friendly”. Asthma friendly status is awarded annually to those schools who have  achieved our set criteria based on the London Asthma Standards. Named ‘Asthma Champion’ – individual responsible for […]

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