The concept of the Leadership Series is to bring specific senior commissioners together from across the seven CCGs to focus on areas of common challenge, facilitate learning, spread knowledge across the patch and identify further areas to explore collaboratively. Five Leadership Series meetings have been scheduled to date: three in 2016, covering the topics of…
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The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has produced a new publication with the support of the West of England AHSN called ‘West of England in the Business of Healthcare’, which explores our regional health economy. Lars Sundstrom, Director of Enterprise at the West of England AHSN said: “When we think of the healthcare sector and…
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Our new Guide to Quality Improvement (QI) is a handy, A5 sized handbook, which explains what QI science is all about and how it can be used to deliver safer and better patient care. It provides a summary of our five-phase Improvement Journey, our methodology for making change happen, and a useful introduction to some basic QI tools. It…
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The West of England AHSN held a meeting recently, marking the first steps towards building a valuable partnership with the regional voluntary and community sectors. The aim was to build relationships with organisations that could help us effectively engage with the most vulnerable groups in society, those who are isolated, housebound, the frail and elderly. Organisations that attended…
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What is Q and how will it help health care? Q is a diverse and growing community of people with experience and understanding of improvement who are committed to working collaboratively to improve the quality of health and health care across the UK. Over time, Q will grow to be a community of thousands of…
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People in Health West of England (PHWE) was established to promote innovative and effective public involvement in health research and evidence-based service improvement, and works with four core partners: the West of England AHSN; Bristol Health Partners (BHP); the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN): West of England; and CLAHRC West. Here are some highlights of its work over…
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