Tony Watkin, Patient and Public Involvement Lead, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Tony Watkin is Patient and Public Involvement Lead at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. Here he writes about how the West of England AHSN helped his team to develop a group of patient and public advocates who now help shape health services in the West of England. I have worked with the AHSN since…
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Sandra Akintola, Clinical Project Lead, Bristol Community Health
Sandra Akintola, Clinical Project Lead for Bristol Community Health, writes about how her work with the AHSN helped her to hone her networking style, make valuable connections and see the bigger picture to her work. I first connected with the AHSN when I attended a network meeting in place of my manager. Although I didn’t…
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Dr Damian Gardner-Thorpe, CEO, Digital Algorithms and ROVA
Dr Damian Gardner-Thorpe is a practising GP and CEO of the digital healthcare solutions platform Digital Algorithms. One recent Digital Algorithms product is ROVA, a platform designed to deliver social prescribing and other self-care solutions through clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities. Here Damian writes about how the West of England AHSN helped Digital Algorithms…
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Nathalie Delaney
At West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), we connect the NHS, universities, research, innovators and small businesses to help drive innovation into the health service, which benefits patients, save the NHS time and money, and helps to grow the local economy. Now is a great time to join the AHSN. We’re at an…
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Elizabeth Beech, National Project Lead for Healthcare Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, NHS England
Elizabeth Beech is National Project Lead for Healthcare Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at NHS England, and a pharmacist for Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (BANES CCG). Here Elizabeth writes about how her involvement with the AHSN and the Q community has helped her to make productive connections and improve local practice. I’ve worked with…
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Abby Sabey, Senior Lecturer at UWE and Senior Teaching Fellow for NIHR CLAHRC West
Abby Sabey, Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE) and Senior Teaching Fellow for the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West), talks about her work, and how the West of England AHSN helps her to join the dots. My work…
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