'A Centre of Research for Nurses and Midwives' (ACORN) nine-month internship helps nurses and midwives to become leaders in research. KHP News spoke to Emilie Wicks, Diana Osmund, and Hilary Thompson, to find out how the internship helped them develop their research skills and experience to achieve their career ambitions.
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The importance of patient and public involvement in shaping healthcare
25 March 2025
Dr Sarah Crabtree, Patient and Public Involvement/Engagement (PPIE) Coordinator for the KHP Centre for Translational Medicine, explains more about incorporating PPIE into your workflow, and shares useful resources.
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11 November 2024
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11 November 2024KHPeople KHP Neurosciences Personalised health
Prof Laura Andreae speaks about her work with KHP Neurosciences and with the new Rare Disease Network.
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7 November 2024KHPeople Personalised health
As manager for the Centre for Translational Medicine, Emily helps KHP researchers with funding and practical support.
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30 October 2024News Digital health and data science Digital health and data sciences
Prof Sebastien Ourselin, Director of KHP digital health and data sciences, tells KHP News about the four pillars that shape the partnership’s digital strategy, and how fully digitised health systems can provide more personalised care for patients.
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29 October 2024Prevention, Wellbeing, and Equity programme Population health
The Vital 5 Check is a standardised prevention health and wellbeing check. It has been designed to address critical drivers to health inequalities and targeted to communities living with deprivation - and a new guide is being launched to help primary care understand more.
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29 October 2024KHP Cardiovascular and Respiratory Partnership Population health
In this personal blog patient representative Amanda-Jane, shares what it was like growing up with a heart condition and how reaching personal milestones made a positive difference for her.
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29 October 2024KHP Women and Children's Health Population health
Health professionals from across south east London attended a series of workshops to co-design a Women's and Girls' Health Hub to help improve health outcomes and address the UK's gender health gap.
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29 October 2024KHP Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Population health
In this guest blog - the team from Diabetes Africa share details of how an upcoming event supports their mission to transform diabetes care for Black communities across Britain.
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28 October 2024KHPeople Personalised health
Working between King’s College Hospital NHS FT and King’s College London, ICU nurse Ele discusses her NIHR-funded research on using point of care ultrasound in the intensive care unit.
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28 October 2024News Blog Academic Surgery
Dr Mihir Desai is a graduate fellow of the King's Health Partners Executive Fellowship in Surgical Leadership. In this blog he explains how the programme helped him to develop innovation and leadership skills to transform his clinical practice.
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24 October 2024Digital health and data sciences
The AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare partners with deepc to accelerate and transform NHS adoption of radiology AI.
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16 October 2024
Prof Lord, the new Executive Director of King's Health Partners, shares his highlights from the KHP Annual Conference, his hopes for KHP’s future, and how he switches off outside of work.