Thrive LDN led London’s third Great Mental Health Day. Londoners across the city were encouraged to get involved by exploring the Great Mental Health Day interactive map, joining online events, and using the hashtag #GreatMentalHealth to share their own stories, experiences and plans for the day across social media. 

The short film ‘Connections’ was also launched capturing Londoners writing messages of hope.

To mark Children’s Mental Health Week, we shared this blog with examples of projects and resources from our Pan London mental health programmes, including Thrive LDN and Good Thinking. supporting children and young people.

The blog highlighted some important facts such as “In England in 2023, about 1 in 5 children and young people aged 8 to 25 years had a probable mental disorder”.

To mark International Women’s Day (IWD), we shared a blog gathering some of our projects and work to improve, progress and reshape health and care services for women and girls.

Internally, members of our team also organised an IWD panel discussion featuring women leaders at TPHC and our host organisation, Royal Free London, as well as a fundraising raffle for the Royal Free’s Charity. 

Our engagement specialists continued to support NHS England on a consultation on the future location of very specialist cancer treatment services for children living in south London and much of south east England. 

Following a 12-week public consultation in late 2023, the results were collated and NHS England leaders considered feedback from the public consultation as well as other evidence to decide on the best outcome. Following the decision-making meeting in March, the team released a ‘You said, we did’ report in April which provided the detail for how the feedback from the consultation was used to help form the decision.

Our Digital Productivity team and North London Partners Shared Services (NLPSS) celebrated a collaborative milestone, with NLPSS’ new starter e-joining forms processing 100,000+ cases.

This work is a great example of how automation can make business processes quicker, and for the recruitment team, this meant a reduction in form submissions for new starters from 11 to just 3 days.

Employment check completion also reduced, from 32 to just 13 days, and this work contributed to a 12-day reduction in time to hire – from 30 days to 18.

It was a pleasure to connect health and care professionals from across the country at NHS ConfedExpo. Exhibiting with our Royal Free London colleagues, NLPSS, we were able to share more about how we work through our Consulting and Partnerships team. The event was a great opportunity to hear and learn valuable insights from healthcare leaders. 

Check out our Confed wrap-up video here.

Fast-Track Cities London convened partners to mark Pride month – taking part in a range of activities and joining up with colleagues at Positively UK for the London Pride Parade, marching in support of LGBTQI+ communities within London and beyond living with HIV.   

In July we were proud to launch our first annual impact report, sharing highlights from our three teams. The report gives a snapshot of our work as NHS improvement and transformation experts.

See this page to access our 2023/24 annual impact report, which can be accessed in various formats. 

Following World Hepatitis Day on 28 July, our Homeless Health team had the pleasure of welcoming Chris Streather, Regional Medical Director at NHS England London to our co-developed drop-in clinic at Health E1 Homeless Medical Centre, which offers bloodborne virus testing for HIV, Hep B & Hep C to people experiencing homelessness. 

The Personalised Care team launched two videos from the Patient Voices for Social Prescribing Programme, showcasing powerful first-hand patient stories which can help to influence decision-making and shape how services are delivered in the future.  

Social prescribing has a huge impact on patients’ lives, by providing access to support for wider issues or concerns impacting their health and wellbeing, that aren’t available through traditional healthcare. 

Patients are rarely given the opportunity to tell their stories about this impact. 

We were proud to once again support the #AskAboutAsthma awareness campaign with NHS England – London, this year celebrating it’s 7th anniversary helping to highlight children and young people’s asthma care. Catch up on the 2024 campaign week here. 

Our Consultancy team launched a new thought leadership blog series, exploring issues raised by Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the NHS in England. Check out the Darzi Diagnosis series here. 

On World Suicide Prevention Day, Thrive LDN joined regional partners to mark the fifth year of the Mayor of London’s citywide #ZeroSuicideLDN campaign. In this time nearly 415,000 suicide prevention training sessions have been completed by those living or working in London. Over the past 12 months, 1 in 4 training sessions globally were being completed in London, which goes to show the strength of response in the capital, and highlights the ‘spirit of Londoners to look out for other Londoners’.

We celebrated 7 years of Good Thinking on 1 November. Since going live in 2017, Good Thinking has supported over 800,000 Londoners to manage their mental health and wellbeing through the use of digital technologies – whether it’s anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep problems, bereavement or other common mental health concerns. Read all about it in this news story.