Jenn Garner, Senior Project Manager and Midwife
Patient safety from the start!’ — This powerful slogan defines the focus of this year’s World Patient Safety Day, shining a vital spotlight on ensuring safe care for newborns and children. Led by the World Health Organization (WHO), this year’s campaign is a global call for urgent and united action to eliminate avoidable harm in…
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Ann Remmers, Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Lead
Each year on World Patient Safety Day, the global community comes together to shine a light on a vital issue that impacts millions. In 2025, the focus turns to one of the most vulnerable populations: newborns and children. With the powerful slogan ‘Patient safety from the start!’, this year’s campaign, led by the World Health…
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Nathalie Delaney, Senior Programme Manager, Health Innovation West of England
Health Innovation West of England were delighted to run an all day event in partnership with the University of the West of England’s Health Tech Hub, as part of LEAP’s weeklong festival of Digital Health. In the afternoon, colleagues from the West of England Academy ran a fun, interactive and productive workshop on design-thinking. In…
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Sarah White, Senior Project Manager, Health Innovation West of England
In this new blog post Sarah White, Senior Project Manager, looks ahead to what we will be doing to support wound care and how our work aligns to the National Wound Care Strategy Programme. Wound care might not make headlines, but it matters more than you might think. Each year, the NHS treats millions of…
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Jamie Jewkes, Project Support Officer, Health Innovation West of England
In this blog, Jamie Jewkes, Project Support Officer with Health Innovation West of England, explores some of the issues faced by trans people when it comes to healthcare and considers the role all innovators must play in advocating for more inclusive health and care provision. In April this year, the Cervical Screening Administration Service (CSAS)…
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Siobhan Lanigan, Registered Nurse and Senior Project Manager
The Health Innovation Networks are a key partner supporting NHS trusts to implement Martha’s Rule across England. Siobhan Lanigan is a Critical Care Nurse at the Bristol Royal Infirmary on secondment to Health Innovation West of England as Senior Project Manager to support the local rollout of Martha’s Rule. In her latest blog, Siobhan reflects…
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