How we Help
We develop and spread solutions for healthy ageing and regeneration, in partnership with East London’s health and care system. We focus on:
- Research
- Innovation
- Development & Education
In practice, these offers are rarely perfectly distinct. It is about combining these offers in the right way and combining the work in the right way with health and care partners.
How we help RESEARCH
Evidence into Practice – Health Foundation
What is it? Across Barking & Dagenham, we have joined up data via our Care City Cohort dataset. This is used to understand how the population uses services alongside wider social determinants
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Access to vaccines in Barking & Dagenham
Using our linked dataset to identify lessons in the inequalities to accessing the flu vaccine and how this can support the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine
Care City Cohort
The objective is to deliver real change, using the insights from the data and working in partnership with the health and care workforce to confirm how and what we need to do to make population
...How we help INNOVATION
Workforce scheduling for District Nurses
Using AI to dynamically automate and optimise the allocation of people to their work.
Shaping Places for Healthier Lives
Understanding the impact of internal air pollution and how to improve the associated health impacts on children
Connecting Care Home residents and their loved ones
Social isolation and loneliness have a serious impact on our physical and mental health. Now more than ever we are doing our best to contribute to the national effort during the coronavirus
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Chronic Wound Management & Monitoring
Working in partnership with North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) and tech developer Healthy.io we are testing a new Chronic Wound Monitoring assessment tool to analyse chronic wounds over
...How we help DEVELOPMENT
Promoting career pathways in health and social care in North East London
We have teamed up with ELHCP to help ensure job seekers and young people are aware of the variety of careers available and how to access them
Providing highly valued career opportunities for highly valued care staff
Working with care providers and health professionals to identify training needs and delivery methods and develop a tailored apprenticeship training programme that is fully funded and
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Mental Health Peer Support Worker Training
A comprehensive training programme for mental health peer support workers, based on the Competence Framework published by Health Education England
Education Title
Barking Riverside is the largest housing development site in East London. By 2031, over 10,800 new homes will be built in the area and it will have a population equal in size to Windsor.
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