Sarah White, Quality Improvement Adviser, West of England AHSN
Four members of our Quality Improvement team were able to attend the Internation Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare held in April in Gothenburg, Sweden. Sarah White, Quality Improvement Adviser, offers this round-up of their experiences, thoughts and learning. Four head to Sweden Having overcome the vagaries of booking systems to organise our planes, trains and automobiles, the team…
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Anne Pullyblank, Clinical Director, West of England Patient Safety Collaborative
Anne Pullyblank, Clinical Director, West of England Patient Safety Collaborative, looks back at the first year of the Safer Care Through Early Warning Scores programme in the West of England – what’s been achieved so far and what more is to come. We recently held an event in Swindon to celebrate the first anniversary of…
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Ann Remmers, Patient Safety Programme Director for the West of England AHSN
Ann Remmers, Patient Safety Programme Director for the West of England AHSN, reflects on using the Open Space technique to get people sharing knowledge and working together in new ways… “Let’s run our next Falls event as an Open Space,” said Nathalie. “Yes,” I replied. “Great idea!” Now, this particular member of my team is renowned for coming up…
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Hein Le Roux, GP & Primary Care Lead for Patient Safety for the West of England AHSN
In his latest blog post, GP Hein Le Roux reflects on the differences between strategy and culture when it comes to patient safety. In patient safety, an academic definition for strategy is a plan that takes you to your long-term safety goal, whilst the culture is more about people; the practice’s personality or ‘the way we do things…
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Lars Sundstrom, Director of Enterprise at the West of England AHSN
In his latest blog post, Lars Sundstrom, Director of Enterprise at the West of England AHSN goes on trial… As a director of enterprise I am often accused of helping to privatise the NHS through the back door. In fact my employment in the West of England AHSN could have been very short-lived indeed. At…
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Hildegard Dumper, Patient and Public Involvement Manager for the West of England AHSN
What does co-production actually mean in practice? asks Hildegard Dumper, the West of England AHSN’s Patient and Public Involvement Manager. You might have noticed there are a number of buzz words currently flying around, the most common starting with the prefix ‘co’: co-produce, co-design and co-create. Even NHS England talks about co-design in its Five Year Forward…
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