Healthcare from your living room: how can we help more people care for themselves in their own homes?
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FREE EVENT Bristol – 7 February 2017 – 9:30am-5pm Finding ways to help people live longer in their own homes is increasingly seen as an urgent priority. Featuring speakers from Bristol Community Health and Designability, as well as special guests from Denmark to talk about their Living Labs concept, this event will explore the role…
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Everything you ever wanted to know about public involvement but were afraid to ask
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In December, 30 people came together in Bristol to share experiences and come to a common understanding about how to implement good public involvement in healthcare settings. In the room were people from voluntary sector organisations, clinical commissioning groups, mental health services, Universities as well as Trusts and provider services. All came to the workshop…
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2016: the year in review
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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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How to avoid A&E this Christmas…
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Christmas and New Year are the busiest time of the year for emergency departments across the country. Did you know around 350 people each year injure themselves putting up Christmas lights? And there are many other hazards around. There’s lots of advice on the NHS England website on how you and your family can stay safe this Christmas…
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Protecting patients from harm
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The National Reporting and Learning System helps protect patients from harm. This video shows the process of developing a Patient Safety Alert and the importance of reporting patient safety incidents to the NHS’s National Reporting and Learning System. Patient Safety Alerts are issued by NHS Improvement to provide advice and information to providers of NHS-funded…
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Free six-week online course: Quality Improvement in Healthcare
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In response to popular demand the free online course on Quality Improvement in Healthcare – the Case for Change is being re-run on FutureLearn starting on 16 January 2017. Our Improvement Director, Anna Burhouse, along with Christos Vasilakis (Director of the Centre for Healthcare Improvement and Innovation at the University of Bath) and Tricia Woodhead (Associate…
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Recognising best practice in AF
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Our work to help prevent atrial fibrillation (AF)-related strokes through the Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate project has been recognised as best practice in the Healthcare Pioneers report. The report has been developed by the AF Association and endorsed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Atrial Fibrillation (APGAF). The Healthcare Pioneers report identifies best practice in…
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Innovation for sustainability and transformation: annual conference 2016
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The spotlight was on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) at our annual conference in October, attended by senior leaders from across the regional health and care community, industry partners and colleagues from organisations such as NHS England and Health Education England. The conference was a great success with plenty of good conversations and inspired ideas…
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Calling healthcare innovators in the West of England
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Are you a healthcare innovator in the West of England? Do you have a great innovative idea but need some help developing it? Following its success in previous years, we’re running our Healthcare Innovation Programme again in 2017. Run in conjunction with SETsquared, the global no. 1 university business incubator, the course will provide you with world-class skills development support…
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Fab Change Day
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This year The Academy of Fabulous Stuff is joining with Helen Bevan’s NHS Horizons Team to produce Fab Change Day, which takes place on Wednesday 19 October. Change Day is about people: on the ground, in the front line of care, in the engine rooms, at their desks, in the labs, the porter’s lodge, the operating…
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