Sydenham Green Group Practice have implemented the AskFirst to allow patients to book telephone and video appointments directly at their practice, self-triage through the app’s symptom checker, self-refer to services such as physio, mental health, and social prescribing and to access self-care advice. This Case Study details how they successfully increased utilisation at the practice and [...]
One Health Lewisham’s Home Visiting Team (HVT) proudly display their new vehicle signage, helping them to be a visible force within the Lewisham community. The HVT work over 6 PCN’s in the Lewisham borough providing 33 GP practices with an invaluable home visiting service for their elderly housebound patients. The team are led by Janine [...]
This year One Health Lewisham turned five, The actual date was earlier in the year but due to COVID restrictions we weren't able to celebrate it. With the lifting of restrictions, the OHL Board, Exec and Senior Managers were able to hold a small celebratory event at The Bromley Court Hotel, where our Chair [...]
On Friday 24th September, One Health Lewisham organised a World's Biggest Coffee Morning event in support of the charity Macmillan. With contributions from staff at ICO & Downham practices, and OHL, a grand total of £246.93 was raised on the day Thank you to everyone who baked or donated cakes, along with all of you [...]
One Health Lewisham has been successful in our bid for an NHSX Digital Partnerships Award. The awards were created to help NHS organisations in England to bid for funding to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies to support patients with long term conditions focusing on supporting people at home. One Health Lewisham is the Lead [...]
One Health Lewisham have been shortlisted in the Health Tech Awards 2021: Best Use of Digital in Primary Care, for our Remote Monitoring eHub service ,which uses a digital technology platform – Doctaly Assist – to monitor patients through WhatsApp and provide digitally enabled personalised care at home. Visit the HTN website awards page where [...]
Staff at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust today (Friday 30 July) celebrated reaching the milestone of delivering 100,000 Covid vaccinations from the Trust’s vaccination centres at University Hospital Lewisham (UHL) and Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Woolwich. Emmanuel Graham, aged 18 from Lewisham, came to University Hospital Lewisham and received the 100,000th vaccination given by [...]
Dr Melanie Low, Leadership & Strategic Development GP Fellow completed a review of the OHL Home Visiting Service as part of her closing activities before finishing her Fellowship. OHL’s home visiting service started in July 2019 to provide acute assessment and treatment to housebound patients across Lewisham borough. As a patient group, housebound patients [...]
Sensely (the app creators) have a 6 year history working with the NHS, but know their offering must evolve if they are are to continue to provide support to even more people, which has led them to the need to change the app name. They hope the new name will raise the app profile [...]
One Health Lewisham would like to welcome Elaine Ainsworth, who starts today (Mon 14th June) as our Operations Manager. Elaine has written the below short introductory message. Hi everyone I am very excited to be starting work as Operations Manager on 14th June for One Health Lewisham. I am also looking forward to meeting [...]
