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PreCiSSIon announced as finalist in the 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards

We have been shortlisted in the ‘Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare’ category at the 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards for our work with Cemplicity and healthcare professionals to reduce the impact of surgical site infections (SSI) following caesarean birth. The PreCiSSIon (Preventing Caesarean Birth Surgical Site Infection across a region) project focussed on work with…

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Evaluation and evidence toolkits get fresh new look

Our popular evaluation and evidence toolkits have been relaunched with an improved structure and design. The toolkits aim to give people working in the health and care sector advice on running service evaluations and using evidence to inform service development. In 2016, the team behind the toolkits launched them to fill a gap in the…

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CVD study abstract published in ScienceDirect

An abstract of a study has been published in ScienceDirect exploring how pharmacist prescribers in Gloucestershire achieved measured cholesterol reductions in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) by following a lipid optimisation pathway. This work was undertaken as part of our successful application with Gloucestershire ICB and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to the Pathway Transformation…

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PERIPrem webinar highlights: The scope, data and challenges

PERIPrem stands for ‘Perinatal Excellence to Reduce Injury in Premature Birth’ and is a bundle of 11 interventions launched in 2020 across the South West region that have a significant impact on brain injury and mortality rates in babies born preterm. Implementation of PERIPrem is being encouraged across the rest of the country to help…

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Join the Black Maternity Matters Collaborative

Black Maternity Matters is a ground-breaking collaboration, supporting all staff who care for pregnant women and their babies to take action on the inequitable maternal and neonatal outcomes faced by women and babies racialised as Black. We are supporting staff, teams and systems to offer safer, equitable care for all. As part of phase three,…

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In conversation with Deborah Lee

Deborah Lee leaves her role as Chief Executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals this month, which means she is also stepping down as a Board Member of Health Innovation West of England, a role she has held since we were first licensed as an AHSN back in 2013. We caught up with Deborah recently and asked her…

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