World-best innovations supporting Primary Care and Urgent & Emergency Care join NHS Innovation Accelerator
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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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Telephone clinics for kidney transplant patients save time and money
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Telephone clinics for kidney transplant patients are an effective alternative to face-to-face consultations, the Chronic Kidney Disease Health Integration Team (CKD HIT) has found. The team’s quality improvement (QI) project found that using telephone clinics is deliverable, safe and well received by patients. Part-funded by the West of England AHSN, the project aimed to improve…
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Digital Art of the Possible: part two
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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
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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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Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate is now award-winning!
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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
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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
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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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Evaluating National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in out-of-hospital settings
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NIHR CLAHRC West are collaborating with the West of England AHSN to evaluate the effectiveness of using the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in out-of-hospital settings. In hospital, early warning scores are routinely used to monitor patients’ condition and identify if they are at risk of getting worse. Staff are trained to intervene when abnormal…
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‘Don’t Wait’ shortlisted for Anticoagulation Achievement Award
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Our Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate initiative has been shortlisted for an Anticoagulation Achievement Award. With the ceremony in The Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 11 October 2017, these awards recognise outstanding practice in the delivery of anticoagulation services across the UK. In collaboration with pharmaceutical company Bayer and Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the West of England…
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Connect with us at Expo 2017
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Building on last year’s success, the AHSN Network will again have a major presence at the NHS Innovation Health and Care Expo, and the West of England AHSN will be there flying the flag for our Diabetes Digital Coach Test Bed and the new citizen engagement platform, hyvr. Taking place in Manchester Central from 11 to…
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