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What the SW London System does
Most of the organisations responsible for providing health and social care to people living in the six boroughs in south west London have teamed up with locally-based universities to set up the Academic, Health and Social Care System.
Our membership comprises NHS trusts providing hospital-based and community-based health service, universities, the six boroughs that run adult social care services and services for children, and the primary care trusts in the area, currently responsible for commissioning health services for the people who live within their boundaries.
Our remit is to support and enable health and social care professionals to offer the best possible evidence-based services to all residents living in the six south west London boroughs.
We do this in a number of different ways.
We directly fund research and other projects that aim to improve services, develop training for health and social care professionals, or develop qualified practitioners’ skills. The money that supports these projects comes from subscriptions paid by our member organisations. Find out more on the Projects we fund page. Opportunities to apply for financial support are posted on our How to get involved in our work page.
We bring together health and social care professionals doing the same job or working in the same specialist field in different organisations, or in different parts of the same organisation, to share knowledge and ideas.
We also introduce health and social care professionals to university-based researchers so they can collaborate on research to ascertain the needs of local people and find out what services best meet those needs. The evidence they gather is then shared with all our member organisations and used to help design or change services, or train health and social care professionals.
And we publicise examples of good practice or new resources that may be useful to health and social care professionals in their everyday practice or future planning: visit our Learning from each other, sharing resources page.
The Academic, Health and Social Care System was launched at the end of 2009. During its first year of existence, the System worked with King’s Health Partners in south east London to successfully apply to become a Health Innovation Education Cluster. You can find out more about the role and work of the South London Health Innovation Education Cluster on this website.
