Deborah Evans, Managing Director of the West of England AHSN
Deborah Evans, Managing Director of the West of England AHSN, shares her experience of interviewing people as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project. When I first joined the NHS, in a busy District General Hospital in the South Wales Valleys in 1982, I was inspired by the way that staff were all going the extra…
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Hildegard Dumper, Patient and Public Involvement Manager for the West of England AHSN
Hildegard Dumper, Patient and Public Involvement Manager for the West of England AHSN and People in Health West of England, asks how citizens can play their part in shaping and leading the health system of the future. Hildegard will be chairing a session on 17 November at Bristol’s Watershed on ‘Cities, Health, People and Leadership’, as part…
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Lars Sundstrom, Director of Enterprise at West of England AHSN
It seems clear to me that we are entering into a new era where health service providers and businesses will need to develop new ways of working together and the words collaboration, innovation and co-creation will become absolutely central to our new vocabulary. It is also clear that patients will not only need to be…
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Deborah Evans, Managing Director of the West of England AHSN
In the NHS Confederation survey of 2015, both NHS leaders and politicians identify the need for change in the NHS. There are areas of disagreement, but one thing that stands out from the survey is the number one answer as to what the solutions might be: “Greater commitment to working collaboratively across organisations”. This is where…
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