My AHSN connection – Elizabeth Beech
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Elizabeth Beech is National Project Lead for Healthcare Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at NHS England, and a pharmacist for Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (BANES CCG). Here Elizabeth writes about how her involvement with the AHSN and the Q community has helped her to make productive connections and improve local practice. I’ve worked with…
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My AHSN connection – Dr Seema Srivastava MBE
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Seema was awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for her services to the NHS in Patient Safety. Here Seema writes about her involvement with the West of England AHSN right from the start, and how we help facilitate the work she’s involved in. I’ve been involved with the AHSN right from…
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Launch of local learning system for Maternal and Neonatal Safety Collaborative
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At the start of July to we hosted an event launch a learning system to clinicians and health workers from organisations across the region. This work is part of the NHS Improvement’s National Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative. The Learning System aims to create a safe space for local learning and sharing. We invited…
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Getting ready for PReCePT! Our project to prevent cerebral palsy in preterm births goes national
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Colleagues from across the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), NHS England and NHS Improvement gathered in London in May for the Getting Ready for PReCePT event, as the project to prevent cerebral palsy in preterm babies that started in the West of England begins its national rollout. PReCePT is one of seven programmes developed regionally that…
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New toolkit to standardise mortality reviews
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A new toolkit designed to help acute hospitals learn from retrospective mortality reviews is being launched today (Thursday 7 June). The toolkit is the result of a collaboration between the Royal College of Physicians and two Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) – Yorkshire & Humber and West of England. It is aimed at supporting organisations…
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My life as a Medical Director – Dr Peter Brindle
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Dr Peter Brindle, a practicing GP and previous Lead for Commissioning Evidence Informed Care at the West of England AHSN talks about his new role as Medical Director (Clinical Effectiveness) for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). I’ve been in my new role for about seven months and it is a…
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NEWS implementation shortlisted for HSJ Award
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The West of England AHSN Regional Programme to improve the reliability of recognition and response to the deteriorating patient has been shortlisted for an HSJ Patient Safety Award , in the Deteriorating Patients & Rapid Response Systems category.
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BMJ shortlists our Sepsis project
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The West of England AHSN has been shortlisted in the Patient Safety Category for the 2018 British Medical Journal (BMJ) Awards for the project ‘Safety, Sepsis and the System’. The aim of this project was to implement NEWS across the healthcare system from the community into acute care
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Resources from PReCePT webinar
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Attendees from across the country took part in a special webinar on Tuesday 6 March to learn more about the next steps for our initiative to prevent cerebral palsy in premature babies. Watch the webinar here. Download the presentation here. PReCePT, which stands for the Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in PreTerm Labour, has been designed…
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Launch of NHS Test Beds – Wave 2
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The second wave of the NHS Test Beds programme launches in February 2018. The programme provides funding and support to NHS organisations and industry to test technology and pathway innovation to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the health service.
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