Lars Sundstrom, Innovation and Growth Director, West of England AHSN
Lars Sundstrom, our Innovation and Growth Director reflects on the role of academia in encouraging innovation and experimentation, and the importance of this to AHSNs. Last month we had our first get together as an AHSN Network. Around 200 fellow AHSNers , most of them considerably younger and much more energetic than me, got together to celebrate…
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Seema Srivastava, Associate Medical Director, North Bristol Trust
Seema was awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for her services to the NHS in Patient Safety. Here Seema writes about her involvement with the West of England AHSN right from the start, and how we help facilitate the work she’s involved in. I’ve been involved with the AHSN right from…
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Hildegard Dumper, PPI Manager, West of England AHSN
Hildegard Dumper, West of England AHSN PPI Manager, reflects on ways to widen involvement and participation in service improvement. This story is a composite drawn from real events with names and identifiable features changed. Pamela came out of the COPD Steering Group meeting the other day feeling really upset, and determined to leave the project.…
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Dr Peter Brindle, Medical Director (Clinical Effectiveness), BNSSG CCG
Dr Peter Brindle, a practicing GP and previous Lead for Commissioning Evidence Informed Care at the West of England AHSN talks about his new role as Medical Director (Clinical Effectiveness) for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). I’ve been in my new role for about seven months and it is a…
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Abby Sabey, Senior Lecturer in Research Methods, UWE
Abby Sabey, Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE) Abbey is also a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAHRC West and delivers training with the West of England AHSN. Here she reflects on the recent delivery of the ‘Introduction to Service Evaluation’ course and answers some key questions… I ran the ‘Introduction…
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Natasha Swinscoe, Interim Managing Director, West of England AHSN
Natasha Swinscoe, Interim Managing Director, explores some of the issues raised by the recent Nuffield Trust paper ‘Falling Short: why the NHS is still struggling to make the most of new innovations’. Many of the NHS staff I’ve worked with seem to be cut from the same piece of cloth. If you show them a…
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