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We host monthly interactive 'Meet Ups' on a range of relevant topics. Members are encouraged to get involved and suggest topics.
Discussion topics include:
Conversations on engagement
Debate on the Quality Improvement methods and tools
Long Term Success
Learning Lab on leadership
Debates on the ‘softer skills’
Culture and the integrated care agenda
Guest speakers on Patient Public Involvement (PPI) and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
Writing for publication
Interviews and discssuions with leading sector voices
Next Meet Up:
Thursday, 19 March 2026 (12:00 - 13:00)
Are We Starting Mindfulness in the Wrong Place?
Are We Starting Mindfulness in the Wrong Place?
A Knowledge Mobilisation Project: Exploring Whether Nature Can Make Mindfulness More Accessible for People Living with Long-Term Health Conditions
Mindfulness is often recommended to people living with long-term health conditions to support mental health and wellbeing and encourage positive behaviour change. Yet many people find traditional mindfulness practices difficult to engage with or sustain.
In this QIN Meet Up, Julie Derwig, Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow with the NIHR ARC North West London, will introduce a project exploring a nature-based mindfulness intervention developed in partnership with London Zoo.
The presentation will outline the thinking behind the project and why natural environments may offer a more accessible starting point for mindfulness practice. Julie will also describe how this idea is being translated from evidence into practice within an NHS setting.
This will be a short presentation followed by discussion about the wider question of what role nature might play in supporting health and wellbeing for people living with long-term health conditions, and the opportunities and challenges of introducing nature-based approaches within NHS care.
Join Meet Up on Microsoft Teams
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32477605864983?p=NXY4Nn8WWtDUolk61b
Meeting ID: 324 776 058 649 83
Passcode: KZ3JY7QD
Following Meet Up Date:
Friday, 17 April 2026 (12:00 - 13:00)
A knowledge mobilisation project on Basic Life Support capacity building among the prison population (including staff and prisoners)
Presenters: Dr. Helen Pocock, Interim Head of Research Operations, South Central Ambulance Service and Dr Craig Holden Senior Lead Public Health Team, Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Email: n.hewlett@imperial.ac.uk to register for your free place or just join the call.
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