One South West, a consortium of 55 organisations that came together to bid for Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) funding, is a great example of collaboration and shared vision. Every NHS Chief Information Officer and Chief Clinical Information Officer across the West and South West of England got behind the bid, to accelerate…
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Congratulations to the Emergency Department High Impact User Team at our member organisation University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, who have been successful in winning the HSJ Value Award 2018 for Emergency, Urgent and Trauma Care. University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has identified around 800 high impact users, who attended the emergency department very frequently…
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This morning we welcomed Jonathon Gray CEO of South West AHSN, Cheryl Croker, Patient Safety Lead from East Midland AHSN and Mike Beere Project Manager from South West AHSN, to hear more about our Patient Safety work. They came to Bristol as part of a national peer review programme to help us learn, and share the…
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Colleagues from across the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), NHS England and NHS Improvement gathered in London in May for the Getting Ready for PReCePT event, as the project to prevent cerebral palsy in preterm babies that started in the West of England begins its national rollout. PReCePT is one of seven programmes developed regionally that…
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A new toolkit designed to help acute hospitals learn from retrospective mortality reviews is being launched today (Thursday 7 June). The toolkit is the result of a collaboration between the Royal College of Physicians and two Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) – Yorkshire & Humber and West of England. It is aimed at supporting organisations…
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The Board of the West of England AHSN has today confirmed that Natasha Swinscoe, our Interim Managing Director, will take on the role of Managing Director on a permanent basis with immediate effect. Natasha had been Interim Managing Director since the start of 2018, following the retirement of Deborah Evans. During this time the national…
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