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The report's author discusses adoption of innovation in the NHS

Ingredients for successful spread of innovation detailed in new report

This January the King’s Fund published a report on adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS. The report, commissioned on behalf of the AHSN Network charts the journey of eight innovations from creation to widespread use.

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Looking back, looking forward to 2023

Colleagues from across the West of England and beyond gathered in Bristol last month for our annual conference, where we explored the progress we have made together over the last five years and looked ahead to the key themes for our new five year licence. It was an inspiring and thought-provoking day, focusing on what…

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Take Five

As part of her presentation at this year’s annual conference, Managing Director Deborah Evans launched Take Five, a collection of five short films about five of our key projects from the last five years. The films offer a quick overview of what we’ve learned about transformation as a healthcare community here in the West of…

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A trio of awards for the Mental Health Collaborative

The South of England Mental Health Collaborative, of which the West of England AHSN is a member, has scored a hat trick at the recent Training Journal Awards. Now in their 12th year, the Awards recognise the ingenuity, creativity, passion and hard work of learning and development professionals from around the world. The winners were announced…

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Adoption of NEWS: a clinical priority for NHS England

Building on the work of our Patient Safety Collaborative in the West of England, the National Quality Board endorsed the adoption of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across NHS acute care in June 2017 and this has become a clinical priority for NHS England. As part of NHS Improvement’s national Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC)…

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How useful is the Evaluation Works toolkit?

The Evaluation Works online toolkit launched in March 2016, followed by a complementary two-hour workshop. Both were the result of collaborative work between the West of England AHSN, CLAHRC West and Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative (APCRC) in their drive to promote a culture of evaluation for health services in the region. We have come…

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