A key lesson from one of our recent stakeholder sessions is that improving care for people living with multiple long-term conditions requires more than strengthening individual health services. 🔗 Read the full article: pen-connect.org/what-happens... 🇵🇹 pt.pen-connect.org/what-happens...

What happens when you bring together ethnography, health systems and implementation sciences? - PEN-CONNECT

In May, the PEN-CONNECT consortium organised a series of training

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Meet the team 👥 Our team in London (@lshtm.bsky.social) investigates how patients move through the health system, and how services, policies and local contexts shape access to care. ⬇️ Meet the individual team members in the slides below.

What does it take to provide continuous care for people living with severe chronic diseases in rural settings? Read our full article about how we prepare the ground for PEN-CONNECT in Nhamatanda: 🔗 pen-connect.org/strengthenin...

Strengthening integrated chronic care in rural Mozambique: preparing the ground for PEN-CONNECT in Nhamatanda - PEN-CONNECT

Located along the Beira Corridor in Sofala Province, central Mozambique,

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Meet the team 👥 Our team in Mozambique leads on-site project implementation, as they bring invaluable experience within local health systems, from medical practitioners, policy implementation, social and community-based systems experts. ⬇️ Meet the individual team members in the slides below.

Meet the team 👥 Our team from @umcutrecht.bsky.social works on trial design, health economic evaluation, project coordination and EU focused communication. ⬇️ Meet the individual team members in the slides below. 🔗 More on our approach pen-connect.org

Meet the team 👥 PEN-CONNECT is jointly led by Dr. Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch and Dr. Ana Mocumbi. Kerstin specialises in implementation research and scaling up chronic disease care across diverse settings. Ana leads research on noncommunicable diseases in disadvantaged communities. 🔽

How do you implement an evidence-based intervention in a complex health system, and make it work in practice? Yesterday, our team at @lmu.de hosted a workshop on implementation science frameworks within PEN-CONNECT. 🔗 Read more about the workshop: pen-connect.org/how-do-you-i...

During our field visit to Nhamatanda, we saw how integrated chronic care connects clinical services, community engagement and the “Diabetes” song. Read the full article on our website: pen-connect.org/field-visit-...

Field visit to Nhamatanda highlights community engagement in chronic care - PEN-Connect

In October 2025, partners of the PEN-Connect consortium conducted a

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Connecting primary and district care for people with multiple long-term conditions in Mozambique: why and how? ⤵️ Hypertension, diabetes and mental conditions are rising, while health systems are often not organised for long-term care. 🔍 Read more about our approach: tinyurl.com/yadhwbch

PEN-CONNECT launches in Maputo Chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes and mental health problems are rising in many low- and middle-income countries. For people living with more than one long-term condition, care is often fragmented, with limited coordination between clinics and hospitals.