This month, 15 fantastic delegates, with a diverse range of innovations, became the HIPsters of class October 2019 on our Health Innovation Programme (HIP). Just in case you hadn’t heard already… The West of England HIP is a four-day personal development course for innovators developing healthcare solutions. The HIP has been a huge success over…
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Today (Thursday 10 October), patients across the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commisioning Group (BNSSG CCG) and Gloucestershire CCG areas will begin conversations with their clinicians and health care professionals to identify their own care and treatment preferences. It is likely that these discussions and decisions will be recorded using a new purple…
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Evidence from NIHR CLAHRC West’s evaluation of the use of the Emergency Department (ED) Safety Checklist in hospitals in the West of England has been used to update the national toolkit. The toolkit, developed and hosted by the West of England AHSN, supports ED staff who are implementing the Safety Checklist. Hospital trusts have been…
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The AHSN Network has published a new report celebrating diversity across the Network, and setting out pledges to support diversity more.
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Clare Evans and Alex Leach have joined the AHSN as we start to roll-out new tools like our Innovation Exchange and look to build on our success in the adoption and spread of innovation. Clare, who has been working on the Innovation and Technology Payment (ITP) scheme becomes our Deputy Director Service & System Transformation,…
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Health researchers in the West Country have been given a £9 million award from the Government’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to enable them to tackle the area’s most pressing health problems. The new funding will enable new research projects including forecasting demand in hospitals, increasing people’s physical activity levels, supporting people who…
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