Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) has today been announced as one of 15 new Patient Safety Collaboratives set up to help improve the safety of patients and ensure continual learning sits at the heart of healthcare in England. The network of collaboratives, launched by Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, will focus on improving...Read More

Buckinghamshire New University has today joined Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), which brings together some of the world’s most respected health and academic institutions to bring demonstrable improvements in the health and wellbeing of the 2.3 million people living in North West London. It is also the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for this area....Read More

Imperial College Health Partners has now produced its second annual report for 2013/14. Click on the image below to view the report immediately. Otherwise, right click and press ‘Save Link As…’ to download the report. First published: 2 June 2014 The report gives a comprehensive overview of the work of Imperial College Health Partners, our...Read More

In 1997, monetary policy in this country was transformed overnight. On May 6, the then chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, gave the Bank of England operational independence. This remains one of the most important and universally welcomed policy decisions of the 1990s. The NHS needs a similar watershed moment if it wants to weather...Read More

Industry is from Mars and the NHS is from Venus. One is the master of unsolicited offers, the other plays hard to guess and get. This may be stretching it somewhat but a frequent complaint you will hear in corridors of commercial directors in the NHS is that they are inundated by cold-calls, or in...Read More

One recent entry in our daughter’s Red Book reads “parent declined advice to give vitamin drops”. This followed a discussion with our health visitor about the merits or otherwise of vitamin drops for toddlers. After all, we are going a long way in cooking fresh food, when reverting to pre-prepared dishes looks tempting most nights...Read More

Brunel University has today joined Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), which brings together some of the world’s most respected health and academic institutions to bring demonstrable improvements in the health and wellbeing of the 2.3 million people living in North West London. It is also the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for this area. ICHP,...Read More

The NHS has an unprecedented opportunity to make health care better and safer.  We are close to missing that opportunity.  It would be a major mistake to do so.  At a time when the public and press are clamouring for safer care, some opinion leaders are objecting to one of the biggest opportunities to achieve...Read More

There is rare unity among all three main political parties – don’t use the “R”-word in the context of the NHS when it comes to 2015 election manifestos. Reconfiguration and structural reforms are almost certainly off the table for next year’s election, given the bitter experience of the recent top-down reorganisation of the NHS (though...Read More