One year ago, on Monday 11 January 2021 the Ashton Gate Vaccination Centre opened its doors to the people of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. This was an incredible achievement, having taken just three days to transform the stadium into a large-scale Covid vaccination centre with the help of a military team. During the…
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A new £275,000 project will explore the use of non-GP health professionals in primary care to understand if they relieve the pressure on GPs and improve patient care. The project will see the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West) team up with the West of England AHSN. The use…
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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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A new group of HIPsters has successfully graduated from our Health Innovation Programme (HIP) 2021. The HIP – an intensive, fully-funded course that helps entrepreneurs to develop business propositions with real potential to transform healthcare – delivered ten new graduates this year, bringing its total up to 124. Innovations being developed, by those successful in…
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On 30 November the South of England Mental Health Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Collaborative (known as the MHC) held an all-day learning event for mental health teams across the South of England. The event – held online – was an opportunity for sharing learning and networking, which has been particularly challenging for large geographic…
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After a Covid-enforced hiatus our Future of Care event series got back underway again at the University of West of England (UWE) on Wednesday 24 November. In the keynote address Professor Maggie Rae outlined some of the ways that she, as President of the Faculty of Public Heath, sees that Covid will have the greatest…
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