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Digital Art of the Possible: part two

A major event took place at Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol earlier this month, bringing together NHS and local authority professionals, academics and technology companies to explore collaboration opportunities and shape the digital future of our health service. Digital Art of the Possible showcased an exciting array of digital innovations aligned to the needs of…

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ED Safety Checklist recommended by NHS Improvement for national roll-out

Hospital trusts across the country are being urged to use an initiative developed in the West of England to improve patient safety in emergency departments. The recommendation to all trusts in England to implement the ‘Emergency Department (ED) Safety Checklist’ comes in a letter issued this week by NHS Improvement. Designed to address the shared…

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DWAC team at House of Commons

Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate is now award-winning!

Our Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate (DWAC) project won a prestigious Anticoagulation Achievement Award this month for its achievements in stroke prevention. DWAC won the category ‘The centre best able to demonstrate adherence to NICE quality standards for atrial fibrillation’. The Anticoagulation Achievement Awards celebrate outstanding practice in the management, education and provision of anticoagulation across the UK.…

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Project to prevent cerebral palsy in premature babies wins ‘scaling up’ funding from the Health Foundation

Developed in maternity units across the West of England, the ‘PReCePT’ project has been selected by the Health Foundation to be part of an ambitious £3.5 million improvement programme. The Scaling Up Improvement programme is supporting seven projects in the UK to take their proven health care interventions and approaches and make them work at…

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Sharing the learning at evidence and evaluation ‘Train the Trainer’ day

On 27 September 2017, the West of England AHSN and NIHR CLAHRC West ran a ‘Train the Trainer’ day to share resources and experience of running the workshops – ‘Finding the Evidence’ and ‘Getting Started with Service Evaluation’. 142 NHS commissioning staff across the West of England have attended these workshops since March 2016, reporting…

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Deborah Evans announces retirement as West of England AHSN managing director

Deborah Evans has announced her retirement this week as Managing Director of the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), with effect from 31 March 2018. Deborah has been managing director of the West of England AHSN since it was set up in 2013, as one of 15 AHSNs across the country established by…

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