Research and innovation
Our vision is to improve the health of women and children.
Since the launch of our refreshed strategy in 2020, we have focussed on enabling this vision by developing mechanisms to enhance the strategic alignment of King's College London and our NHS partners to improve health and care through increased translation of discoveries from early scientific research into patient benefit.
We do this through:
Ask the Institute: a service providing advice, support and research for those working in health and social care across south east London, helping them translate knowledge into action and enhance evidence-based practice [link]
The Knowledge Hub, a one stop shop providing and signposting information and support for research and researcher development [link]
King’s Clinical Trials Unit: The Women and Children’s Health Specialist Section of the King’s Clinical Trials Unit website (King's College London) offers remotely accessible advice services, including support for development and delivery of women’s and children’s clinical trials.
Research Support; our Research Support Manager, provides advice and support to clinical academics across the partnership applying for funding and facilitating academic collaboration.
Key projects
Our expertise spans the life-course; from pre-conception through to end-of-life care.
Resilient Health Systems
The Resilient Health Systems project aims to use robust research and evaluation methods to understand in-depth the changes introduced to the south east London health system due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more.
RESILIENT is a NIHR-funded project that examines post-pandemic planning for maternity care for local, regional, and national maternity systems across the four nations.
TEAMcare
This is a randomised, controlled clinical trial led by Prof Ingrid Wolfe from King’s College London collaborating with Prof Jonathan Grigg from Queen Mary’s University London, and colleagues from Universities of Newcastle and Exeter. The goal is to improve asthma outcomes for children living in three London boroughs – Southwark, Lambeth, and Tower Hamlets, while providing evidence for enhanced asthma care nationally and globally.
There are two technology groups: one that will receive a smart sensor that sits on top of their normal inhaler and tracks medication use and provides reminder messages via an app . The other technology group will receive a device that records their breathing sounds, intended to help them identify wheeze symptoms and raise awareness about asthma control.