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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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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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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David Evans, Programme Manager for the West of England Academy reflects on innovation, and what role that we, as an AHSN, might play in helping others understand and embrace innovation. Take a glance through the NHS Long Term Plan and the word ‘innovation’ appears time after time. Simon Stevens is accredited as saying, ‘the AHSNs…
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