Congratulations to Jenny Dance and the Phona team whose Say It! app won the President’s Award for New Technology in ELT’ at the English Speaking Union’s 2016 awards ceremony. Jenny is a graduate of our Healthcare Innovation Programme and has received support from our enterprise team on developing the app, originally designed for foreign language students, into a…
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In response to popular demand the free online course on Quality Improvement in Healthcare – the Case for Change is being re-run on FutureLearn starting on 16 January 2017. Our Improvement Director, Anna Burhouse, along with Christos Vasilakis (Director of the Centre for Healthcare Improvement and Innovation at the University of Bath) and Tricia Woodhead (Associate…
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Good news for digital health innovators in the region! The South West Interactive Healthcare Programme has been extended to run through to spring 2017 or until funds have been exhausted. The South West Interactive Healthcare Programme has been set up to improve cross-sector collaborations and innovation, while opening up exciting practical opportunities for creative professionals to work with…
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The latest progress report from People in Health West of England examines recent work to encourage better representation of children and young people in health research. Children and young people are often under-represented in consultation exercises and finding ways to access them can be difficult. Researchers into children’s health in Bristol were in danger of losing…
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Congratulations to the West of England AHSN’s Quality Improvement team and colleagues from Bayer who picked up a prestigious PMEA award for the Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate project. Designed to ensure patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at risk of stroke are properly anticoagulated in line with NICE guidance, this joint working project received the ‘inVentiv…
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Now in its fourth year, this independent conference will be held in Bristol on 3 May 2017. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear from patient safety and QI experts, including an interactive workshop run by the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative: “I’m a patient: get me out of here!” on our deteriorating patient programme. Deborah Evans,…
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