The patient safety campaign, Sign up to Safety is one of a set of national initiatives in England to help the NHS improve the safety of patient care. Collectively and cumulatively these initiatives aim to reduce avoidable harm by 50% and support the ambition to save 6,000 lives. So far over 300 NHS organisations have pledged support…
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The West of England AHSN launched a local Medicines Optimisation Collaborative as part of the Patient Safety Collaborative programme on 4 November 2015. The event was attended by 54 people from our member organisations across the region. Feedback on the day was very positive with 100% of attendees rating the event as either excellent or good. Attendees…
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Over the last few weeks people from the West of England AHSN have been doing in depth telephone interviews with patients or their carers who have used cancer or rare diseases services across the region. Most of these people contacted us after receiving a newsletter or email from their local Health Watch. We asked people about their…
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Bristol-based Folium Optics has been awarded £1 million funding in the latest SBRI Healthcare competition to develop ‘My Health Tags’, an innovative new product designed to improve medicines adherence. A plastics display technology business set up by two former employees of Hewlett Packard Labs, Folium Optics has created the prototype in partnership with Pumpco and…
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We are pleased to report we’ve received an excellent response to our recent stakeholder survey, both in terms of the number of respondents and the feedback provided. NHS England commissioned YouGov to carry out a national survey to measure the impact being made by all 15 regional AHSNs around the country. 123 people replied to the…
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Regional healthcare leaders across the West converged on Cheltenham to hear about how collaborative initiatives are driving improvements in care throughout the region and nationally. The conference, Enabling Collaborative Innovation, was attended by more than 400 professionals in the health and social care sectors across Gloucestershire, Bristol, Bath and North Somerset. Speakers, who included Dame…
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