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HLP’s London Health Podcast launch edition tackles homeless health and hospital discharge
Read more of: HLP’s London Health Podcast launch edition tackles homeless health and hospital dischargeThe 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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Peer support pack for Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams
Read more of: Peer support pack for Early Intervention in Psychosis TeamsThe 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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Citywide movement for mental health is helping Londoners to thrive
Read more of: Citywide movement for mental health is helping Londoners to thriveMore 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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The health and care vision for London
Read more of: The health and care vision for LondonWe 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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Child death review programme report launched
Read more of: Child death review programme report launchedThe 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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Hillingdon’s children’s asthma team approach the busiest time of the year – Blog
Read more of: Hillingdon’s children’s asthma team approach the busiest time of the year – BlogAlison 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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Emergency Asthma Inhalers in Schools
Read more of: Emergency Asthma Inhalers in Schoolsby Richard Chavasse, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician Children and young people (CYP) spend a significant proportion of their time at school. The school environment exposes children and young people to a number of common triggers for asthma, it is therefore important that they have their reliever treatment on hand in case of an emergency. It is […]
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Workforce diversity in health and social care: a London masterclass
Read more of: Workforce diversity in health and social care: a London masterclassOn October 4th, Healthy London Partnership on behalf of the London Workforce Board will be hosting a masterclass on Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. With the introduction of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), the release of the Interim Peoples Plan as well as a recent roundtable discussion, convened by Skills for Care, momentum of […]
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Support and development of the long term plan for children and young people
Read more of: Support and development of the long term plan for children and young peopleChildren and young people’s team work with STPs commissioning leaders to develop approach to urgent and emergency care to support development of their Long Term Plan work. The children and young people’s team secured funding from Health Education England to run a system wide urgent and emergency care physical and mental health leadership development programme […]