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Do you see me? Why experience matters and must be at the heart of service improvement

Susie Beresford, Senior Project Manager

In this new blog post Susie Beresford, Senior Project Manager, celebrates Learning Disability Week (16 – 20 June 2025) and reflects on the theme “Do you see me?” in connection to the South West Learning Disability Collaborative.  As Learning Disability Week 2025 begins, it feels like the perfect time to reflect on the progress we’ve…

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Why Martha’s Rule matters

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. In this latest blog,  Senior Project Manager, Siobhan Lanigan, explores why this programme is so important and what lessons we’ve been learning together locally in the first year of piloting. Building a safer NHS: our journey with Martha’s…

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Three stylised continuous line drawings. One shows two healthcare professionals talking and looking at notes together. They both wear white coats and the woman wears a hijab. Another image shows the same female on a computer screen, which is beside a pile of text books - giving the impression of online learning. The final image is of two hands fitting a purple and green jigsaw piece together.

Why safety culture needs more than policies

Gill Travers, Registered Midwife and Senior Project Manager at Health Innovation West of England

In this new blog post, Gill Travers reflects on how integrating the MOMENTS framework into the Midwifery programme at the University of the West of England (UWE) is encouraging students to reimagine safety culture. Moments that matter: embedding the MOMENTS Framework into midwifery education at UWE In the heart of the UWE’s Year 2 Pre-Registration…

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Breaking down barriers for safer systems: a day of inspiration, innovation and insight

Jenn Garner, Senior Project Manager, and Ann Remmers, Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Lead, Health Innovation West of England

In this blog, Jenn Garner and Ann Remmers report on our recent regional learning event, bringing together maternity and neonatal colleagues from across the region. On Wednesday 30 April, we were delighted to welcome colleagues from trusts across the West of England to the regional learning event for our Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programmes…

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Five key insights for delivering successful transformation projects with primary care

Amy Bowden, Senior Project Manager, Health Innovation West of England

Our team at Health Innovation West of England have been working with One Care (the GP federation for the wider Bristol area) and five primary care networks (PCNs) to deliver an innovative project supported by the Collaborative Lipid Fund. This has focused on supporting clinicians to target patients who have had a cardiac event and…

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Co-producing our way to better partnership working with the VCSE sector

Sean Hourigan, Development and Training Manager, The Peer Partnership and Brigstowe

Sean Hourigan is Development and Training Manager at The Peer Partnership and Brigstowe. We were delighted when Sean accepted our invitation to take part in a panel discussion at our conference last November, exploring how the NHS can partner more effectively with the VCSE sector to address health inequalities. You can watch the recording on YouTube here.…

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