Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme (MHSIP) The Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme (MHSIP) is a national programme aimed at improving the safety and outcomes of mental health care by reducing unwarranted variation and providing a high-quality healthcare experience for all people across the system by March 2024. Case Study 30 Mar 2024 More
Surrey Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) The Surrey Heartlands InHIP project’s primary aim was to increase access to high cholesterol and familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) screening and associated treatments in the community, focusing on populations from deprived areas, Black and Asian minority ethnic groups, and those ineligible for NHS health checks, largely due to age. Case StudyNews 30 Mar 2024 More
COPD Discharge Bundle Programme Qualitative Report This report shares the impact of the KSS COPD Discharge Bundle programme on clinical teams and KSS Respiratory Network members. News 28 Mar 2024 More
Definition Health and University Hospitals Sussex win NHS Sustainability Partnership of the Year Award Definition Health and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) have won the NHS Sustainability Partnership of the Year Award... News 20 Mar 2024 More
Evaluation finds that AI-enhanced patient triage could support primary care Visiba, a company supported by Health Innovation KSS, has published an evaluation assessing the impact of using AI-enabled patient triage in the operational delivery of primary care. News 11 Mar 2024 More
Kent & Medway Women’s Health Innovation Summit unites NHS and industry to close gender health gap Kent & Medway’s first ever Women’s Health Innovation Summit took place last week (6th March), bringing together local leaders to revolutionise women’s health and close the gender health gap. News 15 Mar 2024 More
Can innovation address inequalities in cancer Sarah Barker, Innovation Manager at Health Innovation KSS, shares her insights into how innovation can help address inequalities in cancer diagnosis and the importance of involving patients and the public in developing such innovations. BlogNews 7 Mar 2024 More
Implementation of Whzan Blue Box monitoring in Surrey Care Homes Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (Health Innovation KSS) has supported the implementation of the Whzan Blue Box in care homes in Surrey since 2018. Case StudyNews 4 Mar 2024 More
New CEO announced for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) Following the appointment of Health Innovation KSS’s previous CEO, Dr Des Holden, as Chief Medical Officer at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Hatim Abdulhussein has been appointed as the new Chief Executive for Health Innovation KSS after a competitive process. News 4 Mar 2024 More
Innovative animated patient videos to improve early cancer diagnosis in Kent and Medway Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance (KMCA) worked with Social Enterprise Kent (SEK) on a Core20Plus5 project to improve awareness and... Case StudyNews 16 Feb 2024 More
How can we help reduce health inequalities through digital inclusion? Kath Sykes explores what the health and care system can do to help digitally include all parts of our population, to enable everyone that could benefit from digital health and care to do so, and reduce the risk of health inequalities as a result. BlogNews 8 Feb 2024 More
Apos Health for Knee Osteoarthritis joins the MedTech Funding Mandate Health Innovation KSS has supported Apos Health since 2019 and it has now been announced that the company will be joining the MedTech Funding Mandate for national adoption for 2024/25. News 19 Jan 2024 More