On Tuesday 30 January ICHP hosted a ‘National Sepsis Workshop: Using Data to Improve Outcomes for Sepsis Patients’. It achieved the first steps in helping ICHP and our health partners to use data more intelligently to produce better outcome for our sepsis (‘infection with badness’) patients. There were delegates representing NHS England, NHS Improvement, NHS...Read More
Our external bulletin, Snapshot, contains the latest news, views and events from Imperial College Health Partners and is delivered for free, every month, to registered subscribers. The January edition features news of award winners, delivery of medication in safer ways, establishment of new partnerships, blogs featuring cake, a film from our Innovation Healthcare Summit and our latest Tweets. ...Read More
We’re hosting an ICHP recruitment information evening for medics on Tuesday 6 February, 2018 where you can come and find out more about working with us. The evening, which runs from 6.30pm- 9pm, is primarily aimed at doctors but all are welcome. It will be held at the ICHP offices on 30 Euston Square, and is...Read More
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On Thursday 18 January we partnered with Health Innovation Network South London and The Health Foundation to welcome over 100 new members to the Q Community. It was an excellent opportunity to bring all new members together to meet each other while immersing themselves in the Q Community. Q is an initiative connecting people who...Read More
Dame Jacqueline Docherty, Chair of ICHP’s Patient Safety Programme Board, reflects on patient safety achievements in 2017 and introduces our programme for this year…. First, Happy New Year! You may have heard the famous idiom, ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’, meaning it’s unreasonable to expect to have two things that are incompatible...Read More
We have recently refreshed our Patient Safety Programme for North West London, which now focuses on three strategic themes that meet both national NHS Improvement priorities and also our local partners’ interests. These are: Deteriorating patients and sepsis Culture change Maternity and Neonatal The programme will run throughout 2018, with some initiatives running into 2019....Read More
Melissa Rochon, Quality & Safety Lead for Surveillance at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, blogs for us about the two awards her team and Trust won at the 2017 HSJ Patient Safety Awards, and how ICHP helped her to create the winning submissions… Entering the HSJ Awards felt like a long shot...Read More
Two attendees of our “Practical course for innovation adoption in healthcare settings” course, held in partnership with Buckinghamshire New University, have won awards for innovations they have developed in their day-to-day roles. Samantha Unamboowe, Library Manager at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, recently developed an Innovations Database for the Trust, which has now...Read More
Christine Norman, ICHP Innovation Advisor, talks about how we’ve been helping to evaluate a new piece of medical equipment helping to make care safer for patients across North West London…. ICHP has been helping clinical teams across North West London evaluate and take up the Non-injectable Arterial Connector (NIC), a new piece of equipment which...Read More
