It’s January. It’s dark. It’s cold. And those New Year Resolutions have possibly already become forgotten. Frankly, there’s no better time to get together and have open and honest conversations with each other about what we’ve been experiencing recently and what pressures we may be facing. Cue Great Mental Health Day on Friday, 26 January! […]
On Friday, 26 January 2024, Great Mental Health Day will take place across London. Now in its third year, Great Mental Health Day is a London-wide initiative and for 2024 will explore the importance of meaningful connections and highlight the power of relationships, community, and social networks. The start of a new year is a […]
Last week, our Community Led Prevention team welcomed over 150 NHS leaders and staff to our personalised care in secondary care webinar, supporting our ambition that every Acute Hospital Trust in London has access to personalised care roles by March 2025. Delegates heard how social prescribing link workers, care coordinators and health and wellbeing coaches […]
2023 has been a busy year for us at Transformation Partners in Health and Care. Our work has won awards, been highlighted as good practice in government policy papers, and saved lives through training initiatives such as Thrive London’s Zero Suicide programme. Read a selection of our achievements below. January Great Mental Health Day Thrive […]
SELCA recently launched a new education resource to support primary care professionals to identify patients who require an urgent suspected cancer referral. The online resource will comprise of seven bitesize modules, each focusing on a specific cancer or group of cancers, and can be completed within 10 minutes. The first module on myeloma was released […]
TCST recently worked with colleagues from St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to develop a demand and capacity modelling approach for chemotherapy services. The initial project scope was to better understand demand for the trust chemotherapy service over the previous three years to explore concerns around lack of capacity and a reliance on overtime. […]
As we approach the end of the year, it’s an ideal opportunity to reflect on the success of our cancer waits guidance training in 2023 and the feedback we’ve received from participants. This year, we delivered training to over 700 colleagues from across London. The value of the training is evident in the extremely positive […]
Back in November, changes were announced to diagnostic pathway for adult soft tissue sarcoma referrals in London. Services will be divided into ‘hubs’ (tertiary services providing treatment and clinical oversight) and ‘spokes’ (services delivering local diagnostics, from further imaging to pathology). The Hubs are the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) and the London Sarcoma Service, which […]
The London Lymphoedema Community of Practice (CoP) was established in 2018 to foster peer-to-peer support amongst lymphoedema practitioners and other interested parties and address shared needs across the professional lymphoedema community in London. To date, the group has delivered several key outputs, including revised commissioning guidance and the development of a service specification to raise […]
TCST is leading a workforce programme on the provision of care and treatment for people living with lymphoedema in the capital. The main objectives of the programme are: The programme team has established a Lymphoedema Service User Group to gain a better understanding of the needs of those living with lymphoedema. The first meeting took place in […]