King's Health Partners

We've just issued the final KHP News of 2024! 🥳 A special edition that features an end of year video message from Prof Graham Lord, Executive Director, King's Health Partners. We also celebrate all the #KHPeople profiles from across the year, the varied highlights from the KHP Impact Report, and the array of fantastic content on the KHP YouTube channel. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to KHP News this year 🙏, and a big thanks to all our readers. We'll be back up and running in January, in what promises to be a huge year for the partnership. 🙌 📰 Read it here ▶ https://lnkd.in/dkNxb_Jk Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust * King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust * South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust * King's College London

Join us as we uncover the link between lung cancer and severe mental illness at the first primary care webinar of 2025. Dr Rachna C. will chair this important session, with keynote speakers from our King's Health Partners Mind & Body Programme: Charlotte Curry and Gracie Tredget. If you want to develop your knowledge around mind and body care, and find news ways of improving your practice, don't miss this event! Together we want to shape a more inclusive future in healthcare. Sign up now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eYyrwbhZ

KHP Professor of Surgery, Prof Prokar Dasgupta OBE, starred in #CunkOnLife on BBC Two and it was a joy to watch 📺. Prof Dasgupta said of his time filming with Philomena Cunk: "Perhaps it is time for me to stop being a robotic surgeon and start a new career as a stand-up comic! I hope you enjoy laughing at me and wish you all greetings of the season and a Happy New Year!" Watch to find out how Prof Dasgupta handled unusual biology questions like 'what percentage of people have a human body?'. Find the full episode on Netflix or catch up through BBC iPlayer ▶️ https://lnkd.in/etDxWAqg

The aim of the 'Trust and Health Creation Partnership' initiative is to co-create a prevention and health-creation collaborative that will build trust, foster equity, and promote wellness within communities who experience the greatest health inequalities. Together with the South East London Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (SEL VCSE) Strategic Alliance; and SEL Integrated Care Board (ICB); we're looking to partner with five grassroots ‘By and For’ VCSE organisations. VCSE organisations based in south east London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) are invited to apply. Each selected organisation will receive £50,000 annually for three years to develop, test, and implement community-led approaches to prevention with an initial focus on adults from Black, African, and Caribbean heritage; LGBTQ+ communities; people with learning disabilities; and children and young people. Apply by 3 February ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e9NUwCNp

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is highly prevalent in the general population 🌍 This year respiratory consultants - Dr Amy Dewar, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Dr Laura-Jane Smith, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - highlighted the importance of measuring lung function through a joint programme called OPTIMISE COPD. Their aim is to help get more people tested and diagnosed for COPD, to enable better care and reduce the risk of flare-ups and hospital admissions. The carousel below reads: 1) Reducing COPD flare-ups in winter. 2) For every drop in temperature below 5'c there is a 10.5% increase in GP respiratory consultations and a 0.8% increase in respiratory admissions. 3) How can the partnership make a difference? 4) "By identifying those at-risk and putting in place processes of care that stop or reduce [Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] flare-ups, we have the opportunity to decrease hospital admissions and provide better care for patients, particularly those who are more deprived." - Dr Amy Dewar, respiratory consultant, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT.

📣 KHP News will be back on Thursday 16 January! King's Health Partners improves health and care services by translating early scientific research, discoveries, and ideas to benefit patients and our communities. We also train and develop future generations of healthcare professionals. Subscribe to KHP News to learn about the amazing work happening across the partnership and discover training, networking, collaboration opportunities, and much more. Don't miss the first edition of 2025; subscribe today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eB9ahM29

Today we share with you our warmest wishes for the holidays! Thank you to everyone who has worked incredibly hard this year, across the partnership and beyond, to pioneer better health for all ✨ Before we begin to look ahead for the New Year, we wanted to share with you this special end of year message from Prof Graham Lord, Executive Director, King's Health Partners ⬇️

Learn about a ground-breaking lung cancer project for individuals with severe mental illness at the first primary care webinar of 2025. KHP Mind & Body programme managers, Charlotte Curry and Gracie Tredget, will present recent findings at this informative session. There will also be a chance to learn about the Mind & Body Improvement Network. The aim for this session is to share primary care insights and work together to shape a more inclusive future in healthcare. Get a ticket ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eYyrwbhZ

As we reflect on the past year, we are proud to share how we have accelerated progress in Population Health. In the KHP Impact Report 2023/24 we highlighted some remarkable achievements: 💻 Eight Primary Care Webinars with 250 attendees have shared learning across primary care in south east London; 🔎 £7 million funding from UK Research and Innovation was awarded King's College London to establish a research theme in Population Mental Health; 🩺 27,804 residents have received the Vital 5 Check through a mix of kiosk and face to face checks; 🤰 134 people attended the annual Maternal Medicine Course for Primary Care; ❤️ 68% of people on the hypertension register in south east London now have controlled BP – a 19% increase from March 2021 – thanks to collaboration across the integrated care system; 🏫 £25m was awarded to King’s College London from the NIHR to fund Policy Research Units and tackle health and social care issues. King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

This year we launched the King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub. Did you know members of the Digital Health Hub are supported to take innovative digital health technologies from ideas to reality 💭⚙️ The Hub was set up to help small, medium size enterprises, university spin-outs, clinicians, healthcare workers, patients, and researchers to take their technology through the development process. All with the aim of improving patient care and management, at an accelerated pace 🚀 Could 2025 be the year you bring your idea to life? Check out the offerings of the Hub here to help you on your way ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e2igEefm Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London