We help health and care teams in south London benefit from innovation faster

Health Innovation Network is the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for south London, one of 15 AHSNs across England. We are the bodies uniquely established to connect NHS and academic organisations, local authorities, the third sector and industry, in order to increase the spread and adoption of innovation across large populations, at pace and scale.

Learn more about our priorities in our Strategy 2021-26.

Our expertise and services

We are an NHS team that works flexibly across the health and care sector, industry, academia and in partnership with south London residents to speed up innovation and improve care. We advise, support and connect teams to successfully adopt innovation. Whether you are a member in south London or another organisation seeking innovation support, you can contact us at any time to discuss your innovation project and see how we can help.

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  • Join us for a session an update on the Innovate UK Accelerating FemTech programme and updates in the Women’s Health space. There have been some exciting developments in both Women’s Heal
    • London Maternity and Neonatal safety improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP) Please join us in sharing learning and celebrating the exciting achievements of London Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) who are p
      • Medicines Safety Improvement Programme (MedSIP) Shared Learning Pan London event on reducing harm from opioids, by reducing prescribing in c As the London Maternity and Neonatal safety improvement P

        • We are delighted to announce that three projects involving the Health Innovation Network have been selected as finalists for the HSJ Digital Awards 2023. HIN programmes shortlisted for the prestigiou
        • The Health Innovation Network (HIN) Patient Safety and Experience’s Covid Oximetry @home work was announced as the winner in the patient safety category for the significant support Patient Safe
        • ESCAPE pain, a project that has helped thousands of people around the UK to manage common types of musculoskeletal pain has been named as the winner of this year’s Self Care Innovation Award by the

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        • Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Fellowship

          The CVD Prevention Fellowship was a quality improvement programme for primary care clinicians in south London.

        • You & Type 2 Risk Stratification Evaluation

          Covid-19 posed many challenges to the delivery of routine primary care, including the completion of annual diabetes reviews. During this time, the You and Type 2 Risk Stratified Pathway was developed

        • You & Type 2 at Home Evaluation

          You and Type 2 at Home was a proof of concept pilot for a fully remote type 2 diabetes annual review pathway. It was developed during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, when primary care clinicians we

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        • Evaluation of Remote Monitoring of Long Term Conditions in South East London

          This evaluation focuses on the use of the Doctaly Assist platform by both patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and staff from One Health Lewisham (the GP federation f

        • Evaluation and informatics services

          The HIN delivers specialist evaluation and informatics support to health and care organisations in south London. We also deliver this work for regional and national stakeholders, including NHS England

        • Protected: Northern Ireland Communities of Practice Development Programme

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