On 10 October 2018, World Mental Health Day, London’s NHS, London boroughs and Public Health England are pleased to announce that Good Thinking – London’s unique digital mental wellbeing service – has supported over 100,000 Londoners who are looking for personalised new ways to improve their mental wellbeing. Good Thinking launched in November 2017 and […]
Healthy London Partnership, in partnership with Health Education England, has launched a dynamic new e-learning tool for London’s acute paediatric health professionals to enhance their knowledge and training in caring for children in high dependency care. Paediatric Critical Care in Practice (PCCP) is an e-portal of resources designed for London’s health professionals to use to […]
Tracy Parr, Sara Nelson and the Children and Young People’s team at Healthy London Partnership London, have been announced as finalists in the 2018 RCNi Nurse Awards, the UK’s most prestigious nursing accolades. Following the awards’ highest ever number of nominations in its 31 year history, a panel of expert judges has whittled down over […]
Poor access to dental services has a significant impact on the lives of people experiencing homelessness. Poor oral health commonly causes pain and suffering; dental pain can have a negative impact on mental and physical health and in some cases can cause people to use alcohol or drugs to control their pain. We have produced […]
Shaun Danielli, Healthy London Partnership’s Director, shares his excitement for the coming year and the new challenges ahead. You will have been part of, or heard about, our review of Healthy London Partnership over the past few months. We have – quite rightly – been challenging ourselves in our planning for 2018/19. This is in […]
The East Merton Social Prescribing Project: The Patients’ Story (2018) This power of Social Prescribing is brought to life in this film and portrays several patients’ stories about their different experiences, the support they received, the impact it has had on their health and wellbeing, and how it has improved their connectedness to the local […]
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), NHS trusts, London Healthwatches, the police and other interested organisations, plus people who have experience of being homeless and volunteers and staff working in third sector organisations are invited to share their views on new guidance for safeguarding adults who sleep rough in London. The consultation on the guidance runs until 9 […]
Ruth Amartey, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Allum Medical Centre, Leytonstone, London and the clinical lead for Waltham Forest Community Education Provider Network (CEPN) “Whatever we face and whatever we do, one thing will never change and that is the desire and passion to put our patients first, to excel at the work we do and how […]
Dr Nikita Kanani, Chief Clinical Officer for NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group, explains how working with the voluntary sector to offer social prescribing services is helping to transform the lives of people in Bexley In Bexley, both health and social care services have been working together to explore innovative ways of working with the voluntary, community […]
In 2017/18, for London’s #AskAboutAsthma campaign we asked people to help support children and young people with asthma by describing their own or organisational contribution to improving asthma care through #MyAsthmaPledge. You can visit our asthma pledges page to see the pledges by organisations and individuals. Take a look at 2017’s #AskAboutAsthma pledge wrap-up here: […]