Attendees from across the country took part in a special webinar on Tuesday 6 March to learn more about the next steps for our initiative to prevent cerebral palsy in premature babies. Watch the webinar here. Download the presentation here. PReCePT, which stands for the Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in PreTerm Labour, has been designed…
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The second wave of the NHS Test Beds programme launches in February 2018. The programme provides funding and support to NHS organisations and industry to test technology and pathway innovation to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the health service.
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Life QI is a space for the Quality Improvement (QI) community to learn, share and work together. Everyone in the West of England AHSN can register for free at www.weahsn.net/life. Life QI supports frontline NHS teams to plan, monitor and report progress of their improvement projects, as well as connect with other members of the…
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Telephone clinics for kidney transplant patients are an effective alternative to face-to-face consultations, the Chronic Kidney Disease Health Integration Team (CKD HIT) has found. The team’s quality improvement (QI) project found that using telephone clinics is deliverable, safe and well received by patients. Part-funded by the West of England AHSN, the project aimed to improve…
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Developed in maternity units across the West of England, the ‘PReCePT’ project has been selected by the Health Foundation to be part of an ambitious £3.5 million improvement programme. The Scaling Up Improvement programme is supporting seven projects in the UK to take their proven health care interventions and approaches and make them work at…
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We hosted the sixth NEWS event as part of our Deteriorating Patient Programme on 28 September 2017 at Kings Weston House in Bristol. Attended by 80 delegates from 36 different organisations, all six acute trusts in the West of England were represented, along with community providers, mental health providers and care homes. We have been…
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Quality improvement approaches increasingly well-established in NHS acute hospitals could play a key role in improving the quality of mental health care. A growing number of mental health providers (in the UK and beyond) are beginning to embed quality improvement across their organisations, with some encouraging results. The approach is based on the…
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Ceilidh Jackson – Baker, Project Support Officer with the commissioning evidence-informed care team celebrates the triumphs of our GP Clinical Evidence Fellows… In June 2017 I helped to organise an event to showcase the achievements of our GP Clinical Evidence Fellows. My team (commissioning evidence-informed care) support the ten Fellows to learn how to access…
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Our Flow Coaching Programme is developing a group of regional flow experts and an improvement faculty capable of teaching and training staff. Funded by the West of England AHSN and the Health Foundation, the programme is being delivered by Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH). Six coaches from the RUH attended the training…
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Our quality improvement project support officer, Kate Phillips reflects on her learning from the West of England Academy Improvement Coach Programme… I recently took part in a great two-day improvement coaching event hosted by the West of England AHSN, funded by The Health Foundation. The event was attended by 26 of the West of England Qs,…
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