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Featured news, blogs & events

Awarded Gold for championing LGBTQ+ health in Southwark

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+ […]

19 Feb 2026
Putting children first: Codesigning the future of children’s social care in Southwark

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 […]

19 Feb 2026
NHS South East London’s Consultant Connect wins Urgent Care Award

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 […]

17 Feb 2026