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Using innovation to enhance the work & productivity of junior health & care roles

Using innovation to enhance the work & productivity of junior health & care roles
Author: John Craig, Chief Executive, Care City We are proud and delighted to be launching a new Test Bed programme at Care City, on behalf of NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences and together with our consortium partners. The Test Bed will seek to transform outcomes, experiences and efficiency for people with long-term conditions. In a...
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Health innovators aren't rocket scientists, but we can learn from NASA

John Craig, Chief Executive of Care City, blogs about their experience of innovation and improvement through their work as an NHS England Test Bed.Saturn V launched the first space station, but legend has it that the plans for the rocket were lost. In recent years, NASA scientists looking to re-energise lunar exploration have not been working from ...
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Can Social Prescribing really transform the NHS?

Can Social Prescribing really transform the NHS?
'Self-care' is it a buzz word or a priority topic for our health & care industry? This week's annual Self Care Health Awareness Week, running 13-19 November, certainly suggests the latter. The week focuses on embedding support for self-care across communities, families and generations. Much support is already out there, including...
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Why pharmacies are indispensable.

Why pharmacies are indispensable.
Following the recent success of our new AF Pathway launch at EXPO, John Craig, our Chief Executive blogs about the importance of pharmacies in delivering an extended patient service and relieving pressure on GP's.Under pressure, often people find the right answers. At home with my baby son, worrying and unable to see a GP, I went to a hig...
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Turning brilliant into life-saving at Care City

Turning brilliant into life-saving at Care City
Today, we launch our new life-saving Atrial Fibrillation Pathway at the Health and Care Innovation EXPO 2017. John Craig, Chief Executive, Care City shares his thoughts on how creativity and collaboration can lead to better patient outcomes and experiences, and lower costs...Care City delivers no services, but today we launch an entire patient...
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Detect, Protect, Correct and Perfect – 4 easy steps to save a life!

Detect, Protect, Correct and Perfect – 4 easy steps to save a life!
Heart Rhythm Week runs from 5th – 11th June and this year's focus is on "Identifying the Undiagnosed Person", with the aim of making 1 million people pulse aware. Together, we can work to secure early diagnosis and improve outcomes for the many millions of people across the globe affected by arrhythmias.Francis White, VP Sales & Business Develo...
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Barking Riverside to be Developed using 10 Healthy Planning Principles

Barking Riverside to be Developed using 10 Healthy Planning Principles
In March 2016, NHS England announced Barking Riverside as one of ten demonstrator Healthy New Towns as part of a commitment in the NHS Five Year Forward View to dramatically improve population health, and integrate health and care services as new places are built and take shape. Each of the sites is an area with significant housing development, pre...
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Testing begins as part of the Care City Test Bed

Testing begins as part of the Care City Test Bed
There is no shortage of innovation in the NHS, however often the desired reach or impact is not achieved due to innovations being piloted in isolation. The Test Bed approach looks to turn this on its head through testing a combination of technologies alongside new approaches to service delivery, with support from service users and system partners, ...
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Healthy New Town, Healthy New You

Healthy New Town, Healthy New You
Barking Riverside has been selected as a Healthy New Town as part of a flagship NHS England programme. This means that we will have access to leading experts to bring the very best from research, learning and policy to the community at Barking Riverside as it continues to emerge. . As only one of ten towns across the country to be selected and the ...
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Our Innovation Partnerships

Our Innovation Partnerships
Our Innovators got together to help mark and support the launch of Care City earlier this year. Watch this video to learn more about how their innovations support healthy ageing and why this is something that Care City feel so passionately about. I refuse to see people as a burden or a problem. We are not. Professor Paul Corrigan, CBE
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Innovation, Information & Implementation

Innovation, Information & Implementation
We all know that these days with improved lifestyles, diets, exercise, environments and care we are living longer, but are we living healthier and happier, and what is the impact on those around us? ​Older populations are a growing proportion of our society, with complex and multiple needs, and a group for whom the whole system of care interacts. H...
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Care City at Thamesfest

Care City at Thamesfest

Care City is delighted to be at Thamesfest this year. Thamesfest will feature spectacular circus shows, music and street theatre walkabouts, local dance groups, a roller disco and arts workshops led by local organisations Triangoals and Riverside Wellness, face painters, bouncy castle and stalls from local traders selling food, drink and crafts. Our main focus is to share with you our plans to work with the residents of Barking Riverside to create their Healthy New Town. There will be much more to see and do, so come on down...

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