The 15 AHSN Patient Safety Collaboratives are playing a major role at the annual Patient First event later this month. The Collaboratives are hosting a new Best Practice theatre at the conference and exhibition, which takes place at London’s ExCeL on 22 and 23 November. The West of England’s NEWS journey will be the subject of our…
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Gloucestershire CCG has won a Nursing Times Award for Patient Safety Improvement for its work to raise awareness of sepsis and support frontline clinical decision. Our understanding of patients with sepsis has changed: we are now aware how common it is and that it can arise from common infections such as pneumonia, UTI, cellulitis and abdominal…
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We need your input to help shape our next falls reduction event in 2017! In March 2016 the West of England AHSN held a collaborative learning and sharing event focused on reducing harm from falls. You can read the output report from the event or our blog post about the day. We are looking to…
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The West of England AHSN, on behalf of the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative, hosted the fourth event of the Deteriorating Patient workstream on 15 September 2016. This marked 18 months since the start of this workstream, which specifically focusses on promoting the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in all health care settings across the…
Read moreThe West of England Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) is playing a key role in the two-day Patient First event at London’s Excel on 22 and 23 November 2016. We are joining our 14 fellow PSCs from across England to share information and learning – and to extend our networks. As well as a large stand space we have our own…
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This summer our Patient Safety team hosted a team of four visitors from Korle Bu teaching hospital in Accra, Ghana, a distance for 4,705 miles from us. The aim of the visit was for the team to learn about quality improvement and patient safety in the UK. The Ghanan team included Quality Improvement Manager Otchi, Elom…
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The Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative (ELC) started its implementation phase in September 2015. The two-year quality improvement project is a collaborative project between West of England, Kent, Surrey and Sussex and Wessex AHSNs with the aim of accelerating the spread of a care bundle that aims to improve standards of care for patients undergoing this surgery,…
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This month we welcomed Dr Mike Durkin National Director Patient Safety at NHS Improvement and Nigel Acheson Medical Director NHS England South to the West of England AHSN to talk about the work we are doing in our Patient Safety Collaborative. Now in its third year, Mike heard about the progress and achievements of our Collaborative to date and…
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Our NEWS (National Early Warning Score) implementation toolkit is featured in NHS Improvement’s latest patient safety resource alert, which brings together a range of resources to help NHS organisations reduce the harm caused by a failure to recognise and respond to patients of all ages at risk of deterioration. Patients of all ages are known to suffer harm if deterioration…
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The AHSN Network’s first Patient Safety Collaboratives’ report was launched at Patient Safety Congress last week. The brochure, ‘Making care safer for all’ provides four full case studies; descriptions of our cluster work; our leadership role; and our shared priorities for the coming year. In his foreword to the report, Dr Mike Durkin, NHS National Director of Patient…
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