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Seema Srivastava

My AHSN connection – Dr Seema Srivastava MBE

Seema Srivastava, Associate Medical Director, North Bristol Trust

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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The Usual Suspects: ways to widen involvement in service improvement

Hildegard Dumper, PPI Manager, West of England AHSN

Hildegard Dumper, West of England AHSN PPI Manager, reflects on ways to widen involvement and participation in service improvement. This story is a composite drawn from real events with names and identifiable features changed. Pamela came out of the COPD Steering Group meeting the other day feeling really upset, and determined to leave the project.…

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People in shape of healthcare heart

My life as a Medical Director – Dr Peter Brindle

Dr Peter Brindle, Medical Director (Clinical Effectiveness), BNSSG CCG

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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Your evaluation questions answered!

Abby Sabey, Senior Lecturer in Research Methods, UWE

Abby Sabey, Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE) Abbey is also a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAHRC West and delivers training with the West of England AHSN. Here she reflects on the recent delivery of the ‘Introduction to Service Evaluation’ course and answers some key questions… I ran the ‘Introduction…

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The answers are out there

Natasha Swinscoe, Interim Managing Director, West of England AHSN

Natasha Swinscoe, Interim Managing Director, explores some of the issues raised by the recent Nuffield Trust  paper ‘Falling Short: why the NHS is still struggling to make the most of new innovations’. Many of the NHS staff I’ve worked with seem to be cut from the same piece of cloth. If you show them a…

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10 evidence-based ways the GP Clinical Evidence Fellows are making an impact

Ceilidh Jackson - Baker, Project Support Officer, West of England AHSN

Ceilidh Jackson – Baker, Project Support Officer with the commissioning evidence-informed care team celebrates the triumphs of our GP Clinical Evidence Fellows… In June 2017 I helped to organise an event to showcase the achievements of our GP Clinical Evidence Fellows. My team (commissioning evidence-informed care) support the ten Fellows to learn how to access…

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