Big Issue Invest is among a group of investors, local councils and health groups working to boost testing for HIV/AIDS in three of London’s hardest hit areas. Read more by clicking here - including an overview of Lewisham GPs success by OHL's GP HIV Champion Dr Grace Bottoni
WORLD’S FIRST HIV SOCIAL IMPACT BOND TESTS 120,000 SOUTH LONDONERS The latest figures from the first 18 months of the three-year social impact bond were announced on Monday at the International AIDS Society AIDS2020:Virtual conference. More than 120,000 people received HIV testing, over 180 South Londoners living with HIV entered HIV treatment, with 114 people [...]
OHL and The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) have worked with Lewisham GPs to improve HIV care in Lewisham in the last year. HIV testing increased in the Lewisham GP practices, which were delivering the OHL project, by more than 70%, resulting in: The identification of 9 new HIV diagnoses 7 re-engagements of patients with [...]
Putting in a shift at the hot site clinic at the Waldron Centre is an unusual experience. The Waldron has been transformed from its normal busy , crowded community space into a clean, clinical environment. We go in and find out who else is on the team that day. We make sure that we all [...]
Marvel Lane & Waldron Health Centre both had a requirement to screen off areas for patients and be adaptable to various environments, in order to ensure a safe and confidential environment for consultations. Boards were cladded with an environmentally friendly foam PVC board which could simply be velcroed to both sides, making them portable/moveable and [...]
Community centres to be used specifically to assess patients with suspected Covid-19 have opened in Lewisham. The two Covid-19 community centres, south of the borough at Marvel Lane Surgery in Grove Park, and north of the borough at the Waldron Centre in New Cross, have opened as part of the borough’s emergency response to the outbreak and are part [...]
A big thank you from One Health Lewisham to Hayes Secondary School Science and DT departments, Mrs Francis & Mr Robertson for providing over 150 3D printed PPE visors so far to our teams at Lewisham's Covid19 hot-sites, as pictured being worn by Dr Riaz and Paramedic Janine. (photo courtesy of Hayes Secondary)
As part of the local Lewisham Covid-19 emergency response, we are supporting the creation of temporary Medical Care Centres for people with Covid-19 symptoms at Marvels Lane Surgery in Grove Park and at the Waldron Health Centre in New Cross. The GP surgery on-site at Marvels Lane has been closed temporarily whilst this facility is [...]
There is now a special new section detailing local Coronavirus community support groups and other provision available across Lewisham within the Lewisham Wellbeing Map. It shows more than a hundred sources of community support across the borough which are shown on the top map layer juxtaposed with the locations of GP practices and pharmacies (for [...]
With the NHS plan refocussing the GP commitment to community health, the Lewisham PCN Social Prescribing service started in Jan 2020, and three months on we have all Lewisham GP surgeries activated on to the Elemental case management system which enables the GPs to refer their patients over to the new One Health Lewisham team [...]
