PReCePT wins Patient Safety Award
We are delighted to announce that PReCePT has won a Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Award in the Maternity and Midwifery Services Initiative of the Year category.
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Calling healthcare app developers
If you’d like to be part of research to improve the effectiveness of healthcare apps for patients we’d love to hear from you. We’re working with local researchers to understand the unintended consequences of using digital health tools in primary care – both positive and negative.
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Thousands of patients in West of England set to benefit from world-leading innovations
New treatments and tests are being delivered as part of the NHS’ Innovation and Technology Payment (ITP) programme, which is fast-tracking the roll-out of latest technology across the country, building on progress in the past two years. They include a liquid gel spacer, first used on an NHS patient at University Hospitals Bristol, which can…
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Digital solutions to support young people’s mental health
On 26 and 27 April people from all walks of life and professions gathered at an intensive two-day bootcamp to work on new digital and technology-based solutions to support positive mental health and build resilience in young people. The bootcamp was part of the Create Open Health initiative, which we launched earlier this year alongside Creative England and The Wellcome Trust.
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Powering community engagement with hyvr
We’re pleased to announce we have chosen four exemplar voluntary sector initiatives to receive expertise and funding support, allowing them to use hyvr to power community engagement.
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Meet the team: Megan Kirbyshire
Megan Kirbyshire is a Senior Project Manager here at the West of England AHSN. Her role is to facilitate the roll-out of two national programmes: ESCAPE-pain and Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM). Our Communications Officer, Lauren Hoskin, caught up with Megan to find out more about ESCAPE-pain and the world of physiotherapy. What brought you to…
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