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Healthcare from your living room: how can we help more people care for themselves in their own homes?

FREE EVENT Bristol – 7 February 2017 – 9:30am-5pm Finding ways to help people live longer in their own homes is increasingly seen as an urgent priority. Featuring speakers from Bristol Community Health and Designability, as well as special guests from Denmark to talk about their Living Labs concept, this event will explore the role…

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Safety in numbers

We are inviting expressions of interest from practices by 28 February 2017 to become part of Cohort 2 of the West of England Primary Care Collaborative. Within GP practices, just as in any organisation, a better safety culture is associated with greater satisfaction and engagement from staff – the safer the culture, the better the…

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Everything you ever wanted to know about public involvement but were afraid to ask

In December, 30 people came together in Bristol to share experiences and come to a common understanding about how to implement good public involvement in healthcare settings. In the room were people from voluntary sector organisations, clinical commissioning groups, mental health services, Universities as well as Trusts and provider services. All came to the workshop…

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2016: the year in review

What a year 2016 was for the West of England AHSN and our member and partner organisations. We asked our team for their favourite highlights from the last 12 months and here’s what they came up with…   The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Gothenburg Attending and presenting at this conference back in April…

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The Great Patient Safety Bake-Off 2016

This week our Patient Safety Team met at a bakery in Bristol to review the progress of the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative over the last year and to plan for the future. We know from our latest stakeholder survey results that 94% of colleagues who received our support around patient safety work found it valuable. During our away day the…

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What is evaluation and why is it important?

We love this short animation created by our friends at the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England to explain what evaluation is and what it can do. For more excellent evaluation resources like this, visit our Evaluation Works online toolkit. And have you seen its sister site, Evidence…

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