Our Collaborations

Explore how Gilead collaborates and partners with the National Health Service and other healthcare and patient organisations across the UK and Ireland to improve the care of a variety of patient groups.

HIV

Gay Men’s Sexual Health Survey

Status: Ongoing
This survey of gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men in London is a collaboration between Gilead and University College London. This survey aims to measure the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV and exploring HIV & sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention behaviours and attitudes in this population.

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Executive Summary


HIV Lens

Status: Ongoing
HIV Lens is a digital data mapping tool that presents local, regional and national HIV data. The tool provides data to support the work of commissioners, community organisations, policy makers and others in an accessible and insightful format. HIV Lens is a collaborative project with NAM Publications and Watipa.

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Executive Summary


Positive Voices

Status: Ongoing
Positive Voices survey 2022 is the second round of UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) national survey of people living with HIV, which is the largest survey of people living with HIV in the UK. Gilead has collaborated with UKHSA on two specific sub-analyses, focused on people's use and experience of non-HIV health and care services.

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Executive Summary


The co-design of a digital health pathway of care for the delivery of the POSITIVE OUTCOMES patient reported outcome measure (PROM)

Status: Ongoing
This Joint Working Project aims to co-design and implement a digital health pathway of care for the delivery of a PROM, ensuring it is person-centred and acceptable from a patient and clinician perspective regarding user experience and flow.

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Executive Summary


The digitalisation of patient pre appointment assessment and annual health review

Status: Ongoing
The project involves the North Central London (NCL) HIV Network and Gilead Sciences Ltd jointly working together to develop a digital solution to facilitate patient-reported health outcomes and clinician guided health data collection to assist clinicians to deliver more holistic care to people living with HIV.

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Executive Summary


‘Get tested LeEDs’: Accident and emergency department blood-borne virus opt-out testing combined with an enhanced rapid care pathway

Status: Completed
Evaluation of real-world effectiveness and sustainability of integrated pathway for HIV, hepatitis B and C opt-out testing and linkage to care in a large urban emergency department outside London.

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Executive Summary

Publication:
Real-world clinical effectiveness and sustainability of universal blood-borne virus testing in an urban emergency department in the UK


Development of a high-level best practice process map to optimise services and care across the HIV care continuum in Liverpool

Status: Completed
Sahir House, Liverpool and Gilead Sciences Ltd are undertaking this collaborative working project with the aim of optimising HIV services and care in Liverpool.

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Executive Summary


Exploration of The Effective Management of Complex HIV Clinical Care (ageing and co-morbidities) with Digital Technology

Status: Completed
This project concept was to explore the possibilities of how digital solutions may improve the care of people living with HIV in early frailty and/or with co-morbidities.

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Executive Summary


London Initiative for Glandular fever HIV Testing (LIGHT)

Status: Completed
Real-word evaluation of effectiveness and sustainability of the addition of HIV test assays in primary care laboratory mononucleosis screens to detect primary HIV infection.

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Executive summary

Publication:
The London Initiative for Glandular Fever HIV Testing (LIGHT) initiative: integration of opt-out HIV tests in primary care glandular fever serology order-sets - simple, effective and sustainable increase in HIV testing in line with UK and European guidelines


CAR-T

Initiating a Patient-Centric CAR-T Service

Status: Ongoing
This collaborative working project between Gilead Sciences Ltd and Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, will provide dedicated resources to a patient-centric CAR T service. It will include setting up a nurse/pharmacy-led clinic, introduce consistent educational programmes for health care professionals, and implement a holistic needs assessment approach to improve the overall patient experience.

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Executive Summary


The CAR-T Simulation Course

Mannequin in bed in hospital room with oxygen mask

Status: Ongoing
This project aims to make available a new iteration of a simulation training program developed by St. George’s Hospital to provide clinicians with practical experience in familiarising themselves with CAR-T patient counselling and management in a mock (simulated) environment.

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Executive Summary


Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres (ATTC) Network: CAR-T Patient Referrals Pathway Gap Analysis

Catapult: cell and gene therapy logo

Status: Completed
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult & The ATTC Network developed a report to analyse CAR-T patient referral pathways & make recommendations for improvements. These reforms will help to ensure that pathways remain fit for the next 5 years of CAR-T therapy and deliver equitable access to patients.

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Executive Summary

Publication:
Future-proofing the UK CAR-T patient referral pathway


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Hep CU Later - Hepatitis C patient Identification Collaboration

Hep C U pronounced ‘see you’ later and NHS Addictions Provider Alliance logo

Status: Ongoing
This project aims to micro-eliminate hepatitis C in all drug and alcohol services across NHS Trusts which are part of the NHS Addictions Provider Alliance and to expand benefits across the wider UK region by sharing the considerable expertise that has been built by Hep CU Later and Gilead Sciences Ltd.

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Executive Summary


STEP-C Free: Support to Treatment by Engagement with Peers = Hep C Free

Status: Ongoing
A Joint Working Project between NHS-Forth-Valley (NHSFV) and Gilead Sciences Ltd. aims to support the Scottish Government's target of hepatitis C elimination by 2025.

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Executive Summary


NHS Substance Misuse Alliance: Hepatitis C Patient Identification

Hep C U pronounced ‘see you’ later logo

Status: Completed
This initiative is led by the NHS Addictions Provider Alliance (formally the NHS Substance Misuse Alliance) and is a Joint Working agreement with Gilead Sciences Ltd. The aim is to micro-eliminate hepatitis C within the drug and alcohol services of the NHS Addictions Provider Alliance.

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Impact Report - Year 1
Impact Report - Year 2


Emergency department unlinked anonymous blood-borne virus (BBV) seroprevalence - ‘ENABLE’

Status: Completed
Multicentre unlinked anonymous testing BBV prevalence survey in three urban emergency departments to inform epidemiology and public health resource allocation.

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Executive Summary

Publication:
Consistent high prevalence of undiagnosed blood‐borne virus infection in patients attending large urban emergency departments in England
Real-world clinical effectiveness and sustainability of universal bloodborne virus testing in an urban emergency department in the UK


Peer based hepatitis C patient finding

Peer-led hepatitis c engagement and testing in outer Glasgow logo

Status: Completed
This project aimed to engage with people with lived experience of addiction and/or blood-borne viruses in outer central Glasgow, by creating a community-based, peer-led hepatitis C outreach programme in partnership with the Hepatitis C Trust and Bluevale Community Club.

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Executive Summary


VirA+EmiC: Accident and emergency department hepatitis B and C opt-out testing combined with an enhanced rapid care pathway

Status: Completed
Evaluation of real-world effectiveness and sustainability of integrated pathway for hepatitis B and C opt- out testing and linkage to care in a large urban emergency department in London.

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Executive Summary

Publication:
VirA+EmiC project: Evaluating real-world effectiveness and sustainability of integrated routine opportunistic hepatitis B and C testing in a large urban emergency department

UK-UNB-5590 | 05/2024 - Revised 09/2024