David Evans, Programme Manager, West of England AHSN
David Evans, Programme Manager for the West of England Academy reflects on innovation, and what role that we, as an AHSN, might play in helping others understand and embrace innovation. Take a glance through the NHS Long Term Plan and the word ‘innovation’ appears time after time. Simon Stevens is accredited as saying, ‘the AHSNs…
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Noshin Menzies, Senior Project Manager at the West of England AHSN
Noshin Menzies, Senior Project Manager at the West of England AHSN reflects on prematurity interventions, ahead of World Prematurity Day. This Sunday (17 November) is World Prematurity Day. It’s close to my heart, being a mum to a premature baby and working on PReCePT, an initiative to reduce risk of cerebral palsy in premature babies.…
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Tony Goring, Project Manager, West of England AHSN
Tony Goring, Project Manager on the Patient Safety Collaborative at the West of England AHSN reflects on a conversation with student paramedics on the day ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) rolls out across parts of the West of England. As ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) launched across…
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Alan Bec, Founder, the Wellbeing Indicator Badge (the-wib)
Alan Bec, Founder of the Wellbeing Indicator Badge (wib) and graduate from our West of England AHSN Health Innovation Programme is one of the innovators featured in the recently published AHSN Network Diversity in innovation report. Alan shares his story of living with chronic fatigue syndrome and developing the wib as a shorthand way to…
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Nathalie Delaney, Patient Safety Programme Manager, West of England AHSN
Nathalie Delaney, Patient Safety Programme Manager at the West of England AHSN introduces ‘psychological safety’, how it impacts on teamwork and, in healthcare settings, how it impacts on patient safety. When people talk about safety, it doesn’t take long for the topic of “safety culture” to come up. But what is safety culture? And why…
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Kevin Hunter, Associate Director for Patient Safety & Programme Delivery, West of England AHSN
Kevin Hunter, Associate Director for Patient Safety & Programme Delivery at the West of England AHSN shares his experience, and learning, regarding speaking up for safety in a clinical setting. I’m sure many reading this have one or more examples of a situation where you wanted to speak up against the behaviours or actions of…
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