Quality improvement approaches increasingly well-established in NHS acute hospitals could play a key role in improving the quality of mental health care. A growing number of mental health providers (in the UK and beyond) are beginning to embed quality improvement across their organisations, with some encouraging results. The approach is based on the…
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Our Flow Coaching Programme is developing a group of regional flow experts and an improvement faculty capable of teaching and training staff. Funded by the West of England AHSN and the Health Foundation, the programme is being delivered by Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH). Six coaches from the RUH attended the training…
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In July our patient safety team travelled to Manchester to meet with people from across the country interested in patient safety as part of the national Patient Safety Congress. Now in its 10th year, the Congress also included the HSJ patient safety awards and we were delighted to win the award for Best Patient Safety…
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The government has announced a major initiative to drive the rapid uptake of health innovation – with a central role for AHSNs. The announcement on 14 July 2017 by the Office for Life Sciences confirms that England’s 15 AHSNs will coordinate ‘Innovation Exchanges’ so that innovative new diagnostic tools, treatments and medical technologies reach patients faster. Welcoming…
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Healthcare staff from the West of England picked up a prestigious award this month for an initiative to support the adoption of an emergency department checklist tool across all hospitals in the region. Led by the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), the Emergency Department Collaborative won the HSJ Patient Safety Award ‘Best Patient…
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In his speech at Confed17, Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, announced the launch of the NHS Innovation and Technology Payment (ITP). This programme builds on the Innovation and Technology Tariff (ITT) that went live on 1 April 2017. The ITP aims to support the NHS in adopting innovation by removing financial or procurement barriers to…
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