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The New Mill Street Surgery in Bermondsey and Villa Street Medical Centre in Walworth have become the first two GP practices in Southwark to achieve accreditation under the Pride in Practice initiative, with an impressive gold level award. Pride in Practice is the LGBT Foundation’s accreditation scheme, working with primary care services to ensure LGBTQ+ […]
Safeguarding partners in Southwark are co-designing local reform of children’s social care in collaboration with frontline staff, safeguarding partners, children, young people and families to ensure their voices are at the heart of service design and the reforms are grounded in local context. The team are keen to collaborate and learn from ongoing feedback and are therefore adopting a phased ‘test and learn’ approach. As part of this approach, the first group of Integrated Family Help Pilot teams started taking […]
NHS South East London has been awarded Consultant Connect’s 2025 Urgent Care Award, recognising the outstanding success of our urgent community response telephone line that has been introduced across all six south east London boroughs. This year alone, the service has supported over 3,000 calls with an impressive 95% first time connection rate. This achievement reflects the impact of adopting Consultant Connect as our single point of access […]
Bromley hosted its first ever Spark Session at the start of February, bringing together people working across creative health for an afternoon of connection, collaboration and shared learning. The new Creative Health Collective series has been set up to spark ideas and build stronger relationships across the sector, giving people a space to explore challenges, […]
South East London ICB and South West London ICB are pleased to announce the appointment, by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, of Sir Richard Douglas as the joint Chair for the two separate organisations. And, following the conclusion of our recruitment process, Andrew Bland has been appointed as the single, joint […]
Our South East London Local Maternity and Neonatal System has won the Royal College of Midwives Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award. The team won the award for its Parent Education in Foreign Languages programme. The service supports mothers and birthing people who speak little or no English. In London, 22% of people speak a main […]
Local residents came together at the Hawthorn Centre in Penge on Wednesday 22nd January 2026 for the Jobs Plus Community Wellness Day – an event designed to support people in setting positive health goals for the year ahead. The event brought together a range of healthcare professionals and organisations offering advice, checks and practical support. […]
Lewisham’s general practice teams came together on Friday 23rd January 2026 for the third Lewisham General Practice Excellence Awards. The event, held at the Rivoli Ballroom in Brockley, was an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the incredible work of staff across the borough. It was an evening dedicated to acknowledging the achievements of colleagues in […]