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A trio of awards for the Mental Health Collaborative

The South of England Mental Health Collaborative, of which the West of England AHSN is a member, has scored a hat trick at the recent Training Journal Awards. Now in their 12th year, the Awards recognise the ingenuity, creativity, passion and hard work of learning and development professionals from around the world. The winners were announced…

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Adoption of NEWS: a clinical priority for NHS England

Building on the work of our Patient Safety Collaborative in the West of England, the National Quality Board endorsed the adoption of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across NHS acute care in June 2017 and this has become a clinical priority for NHS England. As part of NHS Improvement’s national Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC)…

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How useful is the Evaluation Works toolkit?

The Evaluation Works online toolkit launched in March 2016, followed by a complementary two-hour workshop. Both were the result of collaborative work between the West of England AHSN, CLAHRC West and Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative (APCRC) in their drive to promote a culture of evaluation for health services in the region. We have come…

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World-best innovations supporting Primary Care and Urgent & Emergency Care join NHS Innovation Accelerator

A wireless sensor that better detects signs of sepsis in hospital patients, an app to help pregnant women monitor hypertension, and another that directs patients with minor injuries to treatment units with the shortest queues, are among the latest devices and technologies selected to join the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA). The 11 innovations joining the…

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Showcasing Patient Safety initiatives at Patient First

Members of our Patient Safety Collaborative were at Patient First in London this week, the UK’s largest patient safety event, to showcase and share learning from some of the initiatives we’ve been developing in the West of England. We presented three posters at the event on: our work to implement the National Early Warning Score…

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Life QI relaunches with exciting new features

Life QI is a space for the Quality Improvement (QI) community to learn, share and work together. Everyone in the West of England AHSN can register for free at www.weahsn.net/life. Life QI supports frontline NHS teams to plan, monitor and report progress of their improvement projects, as well as connect with other members of the…

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