Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) has evaluated a new kind of surgery for prostate enlargement, finding that it could potentially save the NHS millions of pounds a year in complication-related costs. The evaluation found that replacing traditional surgery for benign prostatic enlargement involving tissue removal, with a minimally invasive treatment that uses implants and avoids...Read More

Jess Henderson, ICHP Innovation Delivery Lead, discusses how real world data can be used to generate evidence for digital health… (This article first appeared in the Digital Health.London magazine, published at the Digital Therapeutics event on Tuesday 24 April 2018) We can be fairly confident that the majority of people reading this article own a...Read More

We have now launched Discover – our new health research register for North West London! What is Discover? If you live in North West London, then Discover is your opportunity to contribute to health research. Often people who want to contribute to this kind of research (whether they’re unwell or not) don’t know where to...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

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