2025: A year of evolution and impact

The health and care landscape across England has always been defined by change, but 2025 proved to be a year of particularly intense evolution. It has been a challenging period for the entire industry, characterised by the launch of a new 10-year plan, shifting funding in Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), and the intention to abolish NHS England.

At Transformation Partners in Health and Care, we addressed these challenges head-on. As an integral part of health and care systems across the UK, our mission remained clear: to actively tackle health inequalities and secure positive, tangible change for populations.

Working in partnership with our ICB colleagues, we focused throughout 2025 on embedding a number of our London-based partnership programmes into sustainable, ‘business as usual’ processes. These programmes leave behind a powerful, lasting legacy within the local and regional health and care systems. I, along with my leadership team, extend our immense gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the success and longevity of these programmes. Simultaneously, we have undertaken our own internal transformation to meet these new demands, ensuring we remain at the forefront of providing agile, high-quality consultancy and delivery.

• Great Mental Health Day: Thrive LDN successfully led the fourth annual Great Mental Health Day, where Londoners across the city could get involved with online and physical events to improve their mental health. Over 150 organisations marked the day, and there were over 12,000 visits to the GMHD website. Listen to Lynette Charles (CEO of Mind in Haringey, Chair of Mind in London, and the Lead for Black Thrive in Haringey) talk about the event on BBC Radio London.

• Good Thinking Pathway through Pain: Good Thinking launched the Pathway through Pain programme for chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, offering a combination of NHS-approved physical and psychological therapies via accessible, pre-recorded video sessions. Explore how this programme can support you on the Good Thinking website.

• Trauma-informed training: Thrive LDN launched a new trauma informed family liaison training module during Children’s Mental Health Week, a bespoke course designed to provide a framework for engaging with families following a traumatic bereavement. 
• Scaling NHS priorities: We released a Road to Recovery blog, focusing on key strategic considerations for scaling up work to meet the NHS’s key strategic priorities.

• Mental health transformation report: TPHC’s Mental Health Transformation team launched the listening project report, gathering valuable insights into mental health and service availability from young Londoners aged 12 to 25 who identify as Asian, Black, or Latin American. The launch event was attended by over 30 young people.
• Data system support: The TPHC team supported the National Amyloidosis Centre (NAC) by delivering a detailed review of their patient data system and proposing a modern, integrated system which would include enhanced reporting and data analysis.
• Embedding ‘Greener by design’: Our digital experts worked closely with the NHS England Greener Digital team, North Central London ICB and its partner organisation to pilot embedding a greener by design approach in ongoing digital projects. As part of this work, we co-created a Digital Sustainability Lifecycle Model and a Digital Sustainability Assurance Framework in partnership with the Green Web Foundation.

• Population Health Management (PHM): Two of our experienced consultants co-authored a Population Health Management blog sharing our learnings and experience in PHM, supporting the national shift from reactive to proactive healthcare.
• Physical activity and mental health: Building on our relationship with Sport England, we co-created a new report highlighting the challenges and promise of scaling physical activity within mental health services across Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). Read the report and recommendations in this LinkedIn post.
• Social prescribing toolkit: The Integrated Care Journal featured a toolkit created jointly by TPHC and Barts Health, detailing the approach to Social Prescribing in secondary care and specialist acute pathways.
• COVID-19 Vaccination evaluation: We completed an evaluation of the NHS England – London autumn/winter 2024/25 London Covid Vaccination Outreach Programme, aimed at addressing persistent disparities in vaccine uptake and improving equity. Read the key outcomes from this evaluation in our ‘Sickness to Prevention’ page.
• Digital Social Care Record records: In April, we surpassed the NHS England target of 80% of providers with a DSCR in place in North West London (NWL). By 1 April, 86% of all 669 NWL providers had a DSCR, improving the quality of care records, and improving efficiency – reducing care managers’ admin time by 20-30 minutes per day. This work builds on previous work we have delivered in Digitalising Social Care.

• Fast Track Cities Podcast: Fast Track Cities London launched its ‘Getting to Zero’ podcast. The debut episode focused on the experiences, voices, and leadership of women living with and working with HIV.
• Inclusive digital design: Our digital experts co-authored an Inclusive design and delivery blog, exploring the benefits and risks of moving from analogue to digital, featuring a case study of our Digital First programme for North Central London (NCL) ICB.  

• HSJ Digital award win: TPHC, in partnership with North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) and North London Councils, won the ‘Connecting Health and Social Care through Digital’ category at the HSJ Digital Awards 2025 for our work digitising adult social care homes in NCL.
• NHS Confed Expo sessions: Our teams hosted two key sessions at the NHS Confed Expo 2025: one on the role of After Action Reviews (AAR) in patient safety, and another panel discussion on primary care’s role in eliminating HIV transmission. Read more about these sessions in our Confed news story.

• Pride and HIV awareness: The Fast Track Cities London team participated in London Pride, sharing the crucial key messages of U=U (Undetectable=Untransmittable) and HIV testing. The team released a video with gay rights activist Jonathan Blake on how far we’ve come in the past 40-50 years and why pride still matters. Garry Brough, Programme Manager for Fast Track Cities London, took part in an ITV documentary titled ‘Proud’ reflecting on how society has changed for our LGBTQ+ communities.  
• Solving the productivity crisis: Our Head of Digital Productivity authored a blog on how automation can help solve the NHS productivity crisis, citing real-life benefits delivered for clients.
• Corporate recruitment scaling: TPHC, acting in partnership with North London Partners Shared Services (NLPSS), a collaborative partnership between eight London NHS Trusts, completed discovery work and an options appraisal to explore the potential for scaling corporate recruitment services across multiple geographies. As part of this, TPHC provided consultancy and change management support to three clients across London, the South East, and the Midlands. The resulting discovery reports presented a clear, evidence-based case for change, demonstrating that scaling recruitment services would improve efficiency and reduce costs.

• Blood Borne Virus testing: Building on a pioneering opt-out Blood Borne Virus (BBV) testing pilot in primary care last year, our team led a project to scale up to a larger primary care practice trial, with great success. Read about our results in our Hepatitis Testing Week news story.
• Maternity support and transformation: We continued to provide strategic leadership and delivery support for North Central London’s local maternity and neonatal system, ranging from improving access to language services to helping the system make better use of capacity and supporting safe and effective data sharing. Continuing our previous work, we completed a second evaluation of the implementation of the CapitalMidwife Anti-Racism Framework, highlighting excellent practice as the framework expanded from London to Leicester.

• Heart health support: As part of the Million Hearts and Minds programme, our team attended the Black on the square event to support blood pressure checks during Know Your Numbers Week!
• Automation in recruitment: James Davies (TPHC) and Jilly Jamieson (NLPSS) co-authored a blog for NHS Employers showcasing the success of robotic process automations in recruitment, detailing a net saving of £500,000 in staff costs. Both authors joined the NHS Workforce Supply Conference to talk about this work.
• Mental health webinar: We hosted an Out of area placements in mental health webinar, bringing together speakers from three NHS Trusts and TPHC to share case studies and learnings. Shirley O’Keeffe, TPHC’s Associate Director of Mental Health and Chair of the webinar, has written a lessons learned article, which will be published in the Health Service Journal.
• Major service change learnings: Building on our important work for the NHS London and South East Children’s Cancer Centre reconfiguration, our communications and engagement team shared learnings with NHS England’s Major Service Change Learning Network, including involvement in the Secretary of State call-in process.
• Digital Productivity keynote: Jo Bowers, Assistant Director (Digital, Data, Analytics and Digital Productivity) and James Davies, Head of Digital Productivity, delivered the keynote presentation at the Convenzis NHS Hospitals Interoperability Summit on applying lessons learned for a digitally productive future.

• ADHD Awareness: To celebrate ADHD Awareness Month, we released a series of ADHD themed blogs, covering everything from reimagining adult ADHD treatment and care, personal stories from our team, to top tips for inclusive line management.
• CPD Accreditation: Our Empowered Leadership learning and development offering (formerly Line Management Training) received CPD-accreditation, a testament to its consistent praise and high participant ratings.
• Annual Impact Report: Building on our first report last year, we released our second Annual Impact Report, showcasing the wide-ranging impact our team has on health and care. In the 2024/25 year, we delivered 148 projects, managed 8 pan-London health programmes and worked with 48 organisations across the UK.
• Appropriate Adult service: Shirley O’Keeffe, TPHC’s Associate Director of Mental Health, presented an options appraisal of commissioning approaches for a London-wide Appropriate Adult Service at the Health and Justice summit, work which led to the Mayor of London launching a new £5.4m service to provide ‘appropriate adults’ in police interviews.
• CSA Service evaluation: Our Consulting experts worked for the South West London Integrated Care Board (SWL ICB) to complete an evaluation of wellbeing in the South West London Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Service.
• Digital Social Care Record roll-out: We completed the end-to-end roll-out of a Digital Social Care Record (DSCR) to two care homes in the London Borough of Hounslow. This work builds on previous work we have delivered in Digitalising Social Care.

• HSJ Award winners: The North Central London (NCL) Dental Transformation Programme won the ‘Reducing Inequalities and Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People’ award at the HSJ Awards 2025. This programme played a key role in improving dental health for children and young people, and addressing health inequalities. Our communication and engagement specialists were finalists for the ‘NHS Communications Initiative of the Year’ award, with our work supporting NHS England (London and South East regions), in the reconfiguration of very specialist children’s cancer services.
• Refugee wellbeing service: Thrive LDN launched a free email wellbeing service for asylum seekers and refugees seeking sanctuary in London, a direct outcome of research conducted earlier in 2025.
• NHS Data foundations: Our team played a key role in supporting the NHS Federated Data Platform and the migration of national datasets, laying the foundation for more connected, data-driven healthcare in the future. Read more about how this work benefits patients and the wider NHS on our ‘Analogue to Digital’ page.
• Climate and mental health funding: Thrive LDN announced £1,499,958 funding from the National Lottery for a new London Mental Health and Climate Coalition to support Londoners in tackling climate change, whilst also improving their mental health.
• Weight management programme: Our consulting experts supported the North Central London weight management programme – developing a delivery model and business case for Tirzepatide. We also supported the ICB in submitting a successful application to Innovate, which secured funding to undertake clinical engagement and pathway design and submit a grant application to establish an innovative community weight management pathway to the Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme – the results will be announced in January.

• World Aids Day: For World Aids Day, Garry Brough, Programme Manager at Fast Track Cities London, wrote a blog highlighting the history and importance of peer support in HIV care, and how this support isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’ – it’s vital.
• International staff support: We managed a programme launching the Ask Aunty Programme and App in the St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group (GESH). This programme provides crucial support to international staff members, helping them to adapt to a new environment. Learn more about what’s included in the Ask Aunty initiative here.