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Natasha Swinscoe announced Interim Managing Director

The Board of the West of England AHSN has announced that Natasha Swinscoe, our chief operating officer, will become Interim Managing Director for six months from 2 January 2018. Steve West, Chair of the West of England AHSN, said: “I have every confidence that Natasha will successfully lead the AHSN through the NHS England relicensing…

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Young people benefit from over £3 million SBRI Healthcare funding

SBRI Healthcare have announced that five companies that will receive further NHS England funding to develop innovations to help ensure children living with disability and long term conditions have every opportunity to live their lives to the full. Sharing £3.1 million, the successful companies, including Bristol-based Open Bionics, recognise the importance of encouraging independence and…

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Digital Art of the Possible: part two

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

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!

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

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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