Sarah White, Senior Project Manager for our Academy, explores why civility between colleagues is about more than creating a pleasant working environment: it’s essential for nurturing a space where innovation and capability can flourish. Why is this an important conversation to have? Because civility at work, and more importantly, the lack of it, affects us…
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Marking the publication of Health Innovation West of England’s new impact report for 2025-26, our Chair and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Steve West, and our Chief Executive, Natasha Swinscoe, reflect on a year of transformative progress in embedding innovation into everyday care. Over the past year, Health Innovation West of…
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Healthcare professionals, innovators, commissioners and researchers gained practical insights into designing robust impact evaluations during the latest webinar in Health Innovation West of England’s Real-World Evaluation series. The online session, ‘Introduction to impact evaluation’, explored how organisations can generate high-quality evidence to demonstrate whether innovations are making a measurable difference in real-world healthcare settings. Led…
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Healthcare innovators developing digital solutions for primary care are being invited to apply for Primary Care Ready – a new innovation accelerator from Health Innovation West of England and One Care that will help innovators prepare their products for adoption across the NHS. Health Innovation West of England and One Care, one of the largest GP federations in the UK, are working…
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In healthcare, generating innovative ideas is rarely the challenge – ensuring those ideas are successfully adopted and spread is where the real work begins. In this blog, Nathalie Delaney uses a creative “test kitchen” analogy to explore how innovations can move beyond their place of origin and achieve meaningful, system-wide impact. Drawing on practical examples…
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As the year draws to a close, it’s traditional to take stock and reflect on what we’ve achieved together before we launch ourselves into the new year. 2025 has been another year of collaboration, innovation, affirmation and impact – all the more extraordinary considering the challenges the NHS community is currently facing. This year, we…
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Health Innovation West of England were delighted to run an all day event in partnership with the University of the West of England’s Health Tech Hub, as part of LEAP’s weeklong festival of Digital Health. In the afternoon, colleagues from the West of England Academy ran a fun, interactive and productive workshop on design-thinking. In…
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The West of England Academy are hosting a new series of five free-to-attend interactive online workshops each Tuesday evening from 1 March. This is the first series of introductory QI workshops tailored specifically by the AHSN for pharmacy teams. Attendees will gain a basic understanding and practical knowledge of applying Quality Improvement (QI) techniques to…
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The West of England Academy is launching a free online course focused on innovation in healthcare from 1 November. The free, four-session course has been developed by the West of England AHSN and the University of Bath’s Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²). The lead educators will be available during November to answer questions…
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The West of England Academy are hosting a new series of five free-to-attend interactive online workshops each Wednesday from 6 October. Attendees will gain a basic understanding and practical knowledge of applying Quality Improvement (QI) techniques to real-world challenges in healthcare and innovation. Modelled on our hugely successful QI Summer and Winter Series, this five-week…
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