The London Health and Justice Learning Hub is the first safety learning-focused collaboration to formally bring together teams from the NHS, private healthcare providers, the prison service and NHS England.

The Hub has created a psychologically safe culture of learning across the London Health and Justice system, enabling organisations to better understand what can be learnt from data and analysis relating to patient safety.

Dr Sarah Allen, Programme Director, London Health and Justice Learning Hub said:

"We are delighted to have been shortlisted for an HSJ Patient Safety Award. This recognition reflects the commitment, expertise and collaboration of our partners across London, including colleagues from healthcare providers, HMPPS, London prisons, charity organisations and patient and public voice partners who have committed to open, transparent and honest attempts to improve patient safety.

By creating a shared and safe culture of learning and improvement, we have been able to strengthen how we understand and respond to safety issues across the health and justice system. We are incredibly grateful to all those who have contributed to this work and to the positive impact it is having for people in our care."

Kristian Lane, Service Director for CNWL Health and Justice Services added:

"Not only is the London Learning Hub making a material difference to the lives of patients and their relatives, it is also changing the landscape of how partnership working is carried out amongst multiple providers. It is a privilege to host the Learning Hub and to have it as part of our Health and Justice family."

Launched in April 2025, the programme set out to reach children before they reached crisis. Through Healthy Child Clinics, more than 5,500 children received holistic reviews covering physical health, emotional wellbeing, development and the wider realities of family life — including housing, food security and financial hardship. Alongside this, our Childhood Asthma Programme combined population-level case finding with better diagnosis and management.

The proactive model transformed identification of unmet need:

• Six times more likely to receive catch-up immunisations
• 20-fold increase in referrals to social prescribing
• 98.5% had their BMI recorded, with an eightfold increase in weight management referrals

And the impact on childhood asthma has been significant:

• 56% increase in new asthma diagnoses, with children identified earlier
• 29% fewer paediatric emergency department attendances 
• 28% fewer hospital admissions

Dr Rammya Mathew, Brent Integrated Care Partnership Medical Director, said:

“This is a fantastic recognition of what can happen when prevention moves from an aspiration to something we actively deliver. We’ve reached thousands of children, uncovered unmet need and, importantly, acted on it.

I’m incredibly proud of our primary care teams, health inequalities teams, Child and Family Link Workers and Asthma Community Coaches -  many of whom are local parents supporting their own communities. And I’m grateful to our leadership for backing a data-driven, collaborative approach that puts children at the heart of population health.

This is prevention at scale, finding children earlier, addressing what’s driving poor health and keeping them out of hospital.”

Dr Amina Al-Yassin, Clinical Lead for CYP at the Brent ICP said:

"I am delighted that Brent Integrated Care Partnership's proactive child health program has been shortlisted for this award. This recognition belongs to the many professionals, partners and organisations who have worked together to make this programme possible, but above all to the children and families of Brent who have inspired this work, engaged with these health checks, and told us what matters to them most. Their voices, experiences and stories are helping us reimagine how children's health and care services are delivered across our borough.

The results from Brent's proactive Healthy Child Check programme show that health inequalities are not inevitable. They are not sad realities we should simply accept but challenges that demand action. We need to be ambitious for our children and to work with our communities to ensure that we can identify unmet needs earlier, intervene sooner, and give every child the opportunity to thrive."