19 Mar 2024
The NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme (NIPP) was launched in 2021 to contribute to the recovery from COVID-19, build resilience and deliver benefits to patients.
Receiving a share of £4.2m funding from NHS England and the Accelerated Access Collaborative, NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs) — including NIHR ARC North Thames — and Health Innovation Networks partnered to test and evaluate innovative approaches within their local Integrated Care Systems.
Now, the findings of 14 collaborative projects, which identified and tested promising innovations to support new ways of working in the NHS, have been published. Each project focused on four priority areas: remote consultations, remote monitoring, service delivery, and workforce.
Learn more about these projects on the Health Innovation Network Podcast.
NIHR ARC North Thames collaborated with UCLPartners to explore Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs), a new service model established in 2021 to meet rising demand and address the growing backlog for diagnostic tests. We worked with partners across London to understand whether CDCs were addressing their six stated aims, such as increasing access to diagnostics, reducing healthcare inequalities, and speeding up the diagnostic pathway.
Explore NIHR ARC North Thames and UCLPartners' work on CDCs in London.
Other projects included the evaluation of Community Assessment Treatment Units for frail patients, evaluating the impact of a video intervention to reduce opioid prescribing, and preparing a culturally tailored online diabetes self-management programme for evaluation and scale.
Professor Dame Nicky Cullum, Chair of the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations, said:
‘The collaboration between the health innovation networks and the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations has enabled us to deliver practical insights that address changing health and care needs post-pandemic. We hope this learning will help health and care teams, and benefit our communities.’
Read the summary report and individual findings for each project.