In December the new online prescribing platform, co-developed by Anna Powell-Smith and Ben Goldacre with support and funding from the West of England AHSN, was launched publicly to an overwhelming positive response. OpenPrescribing.net enables the speedy analysis of prescriptions across the country for the first time and has the potential to save the NHS millions of pounds, while ensuring that…
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The West of England AHSN is awarding £65,000 in funding to four community organisations to support the roll-out of Human Factors training for support staff. Communication and team working are recognised to have significant impact on the quality of safe services for patients. Following the Cavendish Review, the Care Certificate specified standards for support workers (Bands 1 – 4)…
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The cross-system action plan for sepsis was published at the end of December by NHS England. The report highlights the role of Academic Health Science Networks and Patient Safety Collaboratives in supporting work around sepsis across the country, and the West of England regional sepsis group got a specific mention. Dr Mark Juniper, a member of the West of…
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Over 60 delegates from healthcare, universities and industry came together on 10th December at the Ashton Gate stadium in Bristol for ‘a jam session with financial instruments’ to learn about innovative financial models in healthcare. The day included discussions from social investors including Resonance Ltd, Bridges Ventures and Social Finance on social impact models and…
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Dr Carey McClellan, a specialist physiotherapist in emergency care and founder of getUbetter, is in the first cohort of graduates from the West of England AHSN’s Healthcare Innovation Programme. The programme, which first ran in April 2015, delivers coaching, mentoring and support for entrepreneurs and develops the next generation of healthcare innovators. Carey developed a…
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How can we meet the call for more appropriate and robust evaluation? How do we generate more rigorous and relevant evidence? These were some of the questions explored by more than 30 people with an interest in evaluation, including commissioners, researchers and the public, at a workshop in December organised by the West of England Evaluation…
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