We develop and spread solutions for healthy ageing and regeneration, in partnership with East London’s health and care system.
We focus on:
Research
- Data and analytics
- Supporting and enabling academic research
Innovation
- Innovation research
- Real-world testing and development
- Innovation facilitation and support
Development & Education
- Developing and testing learning and training
- Developing and testing new roles
- Supporting local people into and through health and care careers
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.
Explore what we do by clicking on the tabs below...
Research
We lead, host and co-ordinate research to learn about healthy ageing and regeneration.
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
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Efficiency Research Programme
Innovation
We develop, test and scale innovations to create better outcomes.
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
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Social Prescribing Roll Out
The HealthUnlocked eSocial Prescribing tool lets GPs easily deliver a digital social prescription to patients within their standard consultation.
Monitoring in Mental Health Settings
This project aims to improve the physical health skills of frontline mental health staff and increase confidence amongst this group in detecting, managing and intervening for physical health
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Pressure Ulcer Management & Prevention
An educational app to support carers in the prevention and management of pressure ulcers. We have been collaborating with UCLPartners on a programme to understand the education and training
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Innovation Test Bed - Wave 2
The Test Beds programme tests combinations of digital technologies with pathway redesign in a clinical setting with real patients and harnesses the potential of innovations to help transform the
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Innovation Test Bed - Wave 1
We were one of seven initiatives that received funding to be an innovation test bed. This means that health and social care organisations in our region could collaborate with researchers and the
...Development
We develop our workforce and economy to improve inequalities by supporting service users, staff and system leaders to grow their careers and leadership.
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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Future estates and digital planning for primary care in BHR
Supporting future estates and digital planning for primary care in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) to better meet the changing needs, experiences and digital expectations of
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Apprentice Nursing Associates in Social Care
A nursing associate is a new member of the nursing team who can provide care and treatment in a wide range of health and care settings. The role is being used and regulated in England and it's
...Developing Peer Support Worker role in Mental Health
In partnership with UCLPartners, UCL, the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) and local mental health trusts, we are developing and piloting the effectiveness of an
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Enhancing skills for domiciliary care workers
As part of the Test Bed programme – run by NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences we are prototyping an enhanced, digitally supported role for domiciliary care staff, known as ‘expert
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