Lessons learnt

We actively help our partners share their learning with us, other partners in the scheme, and wider voluntary, community and statutory health bodies in London. As a leading think-tank, with expertise in developing projects, individuals and organisations, we want to help to capture and share new insights that may come from our work together.

Some of the key findings and lessons learnt from our projects are presented below.

Improving Health in London: Check ‘n' chat (159kb)

Elizabeth Travis and David Hogarth describe their work to match older people in the London borough of Westminster into pairs to enable them to support one another through regular telephone contact.

Improving Health in London: Health in a lunch-box (149kb)

Bernadette Igboaka describes an event that she organised at a school in Haringey, north London, to raise awareness about the benefits of nutrition.

Improving Health in London: Poetry for health (165kb)

Dave Neita explains how he set up poetry workshops across London for people with mental health problems and their carers.

Improving Health in London: 24 weeks plus (157kb)

Karen Hawkins, Joanne Crow and Rebecca Hankins set up a project to provide support and advice to other parents of premature babies across London, and to raise awareness of parental needs among neonatal staff.

Improving Health in London: Lifelong learning for stroke prevention (134kb)

Rita Melifonwu describes how she set up a project that aimed to reduce the incidence of stroke by developing multimedia tools to raise awareness among patients and health practitioners about the causes and effects of stroke, and to establish effective care pathways.

Involving Service Users (43kb)

This summary gives more information about how Connect - an organisation providing support to people with communication difficulties after stroke and head injury - used funding from the King's Fund to increase service users' involvement in all aspects of its work.

Prison link workers (98kb)

This summary gives details of the prison link worker scheme run by Revolving Doors, describing why the scheme was needed, who was involved, how it worked, what it achieved and the lessons learnt.

Someone and Anyone: Assessment practice in voluntary sector services for homeless people in London (153kb)

This publication explores how can voluntary agencies working with homeless people can join forces to strengthen their client assessment procedures.

Wet Day Centres (84kb)

Wet day centres offer street drinkers a range of services while allowing them to consume alcohol on the premises. This document outlines research carried out by Sheffield University to review the performance and function of wet day centres and compile a guidance manual.

Improving health in London: Workshops for community health (130kb)

Imo Akpan explains how he ran six health education workshops in Fulham on topics such as khat addiction, diabetes and sickle cell disease.

The nature and extent of unmet health needs in Irish pensioners in Southwark (174kb)

This report explores unmet health needs among Irish pensioners in the London borough of Southwark.

Refugee Doctors (100kb)

This document describes how a King's Fund grant-funded project helped refugees with a clinical background to register and train as medical practitioners in the United Kingdom.

Sharing Information for Management and Research (1140kb)

This report gives the findings of research by the Institute of Community Health Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, to better understand the relationship between the needs of people over 65 and the health and social care services provided for them.

Total Learning Challenge Action on Disaffection (20kb)

An evaluation of a project to pilot a model of school-based Action Group Intervention in Malory Senior School in Lewisham through training local professionals to act as groupwork leaders.

Missed hospital appointments and transport (105kb)

Report of research investigating whether there is a link between missed hospital appointments and transport, focusing on maternity care appointments at the Newham General Hospital antenatal clinic.

Performance Failure in Gynaecology: Can routine HES data be used to identify statistical outliers? (399kb)

This document gives the findings of a study by researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University Hospital of Wales into whether routine hospital episode statistics can be used to identify poor-quality service delivery by consultants. It provides the background to a paper published in the British Medical Journal in March 2005.

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