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New Digital Health Hub launches in South West England and Wales

A consortium of universities from across the South West of England and Wales have come together to form a brand new Digital Health Hub which will elevate the region’s digital health capability through leadership, engagement, acceleration and partnership (LEAP). | LEAP (Leadership, Engagement, Acceleration & Partnership), a groundbreaking Digital Health Hub, has launched to catalyse…

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House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee hear evidence on impact of PERIPrem

The operational clinical lead for the PERIPrem programme, Dr Sarah Bates, has given evidence alongside a panel including Professor David Edwards, Professor of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine at Kings College London and Professor Chris Gale, Professor of Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College London, to the House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee. The Committee was appointed…

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PreCiSSIon announced as finalist in the 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards

We have been shortlisted in the ‘Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare’ category at the 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards for our work with Cemplicity and healthcare professionals to reduce the impact of surgical site infections (SSI) following caesarean birth. The PreCiSSIon (Preventing Caesarean Birth Surgical Site Infection across a region) project focussed on work with…

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Evaluation and evidence toolkits get fresh new look

Our popular evaluation and evidence toolkits have been relaunched with an improved structure and design. The toolkits aim to give people working in the health and care sector advice on running service evaluations and using evidence to inform service development. In 2016, the team behind the toolkits launched them to fill a gap in the…

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CVD study abstract published in ScienceDirect

An abstract of a study has been published in ScienceDirect exploring how pharmacist prescribers in Gloucestershire achieved measured cholesterol reductions in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) by following a lipid optimisation pathway. This work was undertaken as part of our successful application with Gloucestershire ICB and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to the Pathway Transformation…

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PERIPrem webinar highlights: The scope, data and challenges

PERIPrem stands for ‘Perinatal Excellence to Reduce Injury in Premature Birth’ and is a bundle of 11 interventions launched in 2020 across the South West region that have a significant impact on brain injury and mortality rates in babies born preterm. Implementation of PERIPrem is being encouraged across the rest of the country to help…

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