In April 2017 the West of England AHSN enters the final year of its current five-year licence. So what happens next? NHS England has indicated that AHSNs will have a second licence running from April 2018. Discussions are well underway on how the AHSN Network can continue to support innovation and improvement across health and social…
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What a year 2016 was for the West of England AHSN and our member and partner organisations. We asked our team for their favourite highlights from the last 12 months and here’s what they came up with… The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Gothenburg Attending and presenting at this conference back in April…
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The West of England Genomic Medicine Centre (GMC) needs your feedback to ensure that the most effective resources to support the learning needs and styles of the genomic medicine workforce are developed. Please take a few minutes to complete a short online questionnaire on the training requirements needed to support the mainstreaming of genomic medicine…
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We asked our teams here at the West of England AHSN what they are looking forward to in 2017 and this is what they told us… Deborah Evans, our Managing Director, says she’s looking forward to more partnership working with Health Education England and primary care through the Community Education Provider Networks. Deborah is also looking…
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The latest progress report from People in Health West of England examines recent work to encourage better representation of children and young people in health research. Children and young people are often under-represented in consultation exercises and finding ways to access them can be difficult. Researchers into children’s health in Bristol were in danger of losing…
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Congratulations to the West of England AHSN’s Quality Improvement team and colleagues from Bayer who picked up a prestigious PMEA award for the Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate project. Designed to ensure patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at risk of stroke are properly anticoagulated in line with NICE guidance, this joint working project received the ‘inVentiv…
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We’re pleased to welcome Emma Roberts who will be joining us on secondment as interim Chief Operating Officer in January. Emma is providing cover for Natasha Swinscoe who has started a six-month secondment as Chief Operating Officer with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Joining us from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust where she…
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Stakeholder survey highlights key strengths of the West of England AHSN We received an excellent response to our latest stakeholder survey, with colleagues from member organisations across the West of England revealing how much they value the wide-ranging improvement and innovation support we provide. 95% of those receiving quality improvement support and 93% of those…
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Congratulations to our Managing Director Deborah Evans who has received a prestigious leadership award. The NHS South West Leadership Recognition Awards 2016 took place on Friday 11 November at the Bristol Pavilion. It was an inspirational and hugely emotive evening hosted by Christina Quinn, Director NHS South West Leadership Academy and Ann James, Chair NHS…
Read moreThank you to everyone that took part in our stakeholder survey during August and September. The survey, conducted by NHS England in partnership with YouGov, is now closed. With more than 2,000 people across the country providing their feedback on working with the 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), including 211 in the West of…
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