Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme ​(InHIP) – CVD

Innovations for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHip) – National Programme

NHS England’s Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) is a unique collaboration between the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), NHS England’s National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme and the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN Network), and delivered in partnership with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). 

This programme builds on the AAC and AHSN networks’ achievements and learning to date in improving access to innovations in healthcare for the general population. ​

Project teams (comprising of clinical and non-clinical expertise) from across the country are working together with their local communities to identify, address and minimise healthcare inequalities through projects to improve access to the latest health technologies and medicines.​

These technologies and medicines are focused on five clinical areas of priority that closely align with the national Core20PLUS5 approach to reducing healthcare inequalities, which includes maternity, mental health, respiratory, cancer diagnosis and cardiovascular disease. ​

Improving access to innovations that reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network (KSS AHSN) is supporting its three local Integrated Care Systems – Kent & Medway, Surrey, and Sussex – to improve access to innovations that reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by delivering projects aimed at the specific needs of underserved communities in each county.

With significant experience in evaluating innovations, local and national programmes that address health inequalities, the InHIP team at KSS AHSN working alongside our analytics partner, Unity Insights were called upon to support the AAC, national AHSN team and other AHSNs to develop a robust approach to evaluating InHIP.

Our combined KSS AHSN and Unity Insights teams contributed to this national work through:

• Presenting information to help upskill AHSN Network colleagues on literature and data sets that support tackling healthcare inequalities, to inform the InHIP programme and support AHSNs on being able to measure the impact of their programmes.
• Forecasting the potential impact and monetary benefits of innovations with NICE guidance, in the regions in which they are being implemented.
• Identifying suitable public and bespoke data sources for evaluation

Summary of KSS Integrated Care Systems (ICS)’s InHIP projects:

Kent and Medway ICS

Kent and Medway ICS will focus on the IMD 20% most deprived population, ethnic minority communities, and women aged 40-59. The project aims to improve access to care, detection, and management of hypercholesterolemia. Through a multi-pronged approach including community-based VCSE outreach work, primary care case finding and upskilling primary care staff, the ICS want to improve equitable access to detection and subsequent treatment using novel statin alternatives.

Surrey ICS

Surrey ICS plan to use lipid reducing agents to optimise hypercholesterolaemia. The ICS will focus on IMD 20% most deprived population, black and Asian minority ethnic groups and those with learning disabilities who are ineligible for an NHS health check due to age. The approach includes community-based VCSE outreach work, primary care case finding and upskilling primary care staff in the use of these interventions.

Sussex ICS 

Sussex ICS will focus on the IMD 20% most deprived population, ethnic minority communities, women aged 40-59, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. The project aims to improve access to care, detection, and management of hypercholesterolemia. Through a multi-pronged approach including community-based VCSE outreach work, primary care case finding and upskilling primary care staff, the ICS want to improve equitable access to detection and subsequent treatment using novel statin alternatives.

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