16 November 2020
Recently released figures* reveal that a national programme aiming to improve the detection and treatment of an irregular heart rhythm known as Atrial Fibrillation (AF) has helped to prevent 11,734 strokes and saved 2,933 lives. AF is the most common type of irregular heart rhythm and can increase risk of stroke, leaving survivors with disabling... Read more >
10 November 2020
Wessex AHSN has today - Tuesday, 10 November - won a prestigious national HSJ Patient Safety award.Along with colleagues at West Hampshire CCG, the AHSN won for its RESTORE2 project; right care, right place, right time for care home residents.The work won in the 'Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Systems Award' category. The winners of ... Read more >
10 November 2020
Young people with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are to get rapid access to specialist NHS treatment across England.The NHS has announced that it will scale up an early intervention service to support young people in the early stages of eating disorders.The new NHS service to be rolled out in 18 sites across the country builds on ... Read more >
28 October 2020
We have produced a new report, which looks at the experiences of five acute trusts when adopting innovation, and how they made these innovations work in their trusts. The report includes listing factors which help innovation be adopted into complex, busy acute hospital trusts. The NHS response to Covid-19 has seen an increase in innovation. In t... Read more >
8 October 2020
A rapid-learning report on the role of Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) during the pandemic has been published by the AHSN Network. PSCs are just one part of the health and care system which responded quickly to the immediate crisis from Covid-19 in March. They reprioritised their day-to-day work and took on new programmes at speed, such as ... Read more >
6 October 2020
AHSNs are supporting a new national funding initiative led by the Health Foundation, to support healthcare provider organisations to adopt innovation faster.Launched with support from England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks, the Adopting Innovation programme opens for expressions of interest on 7 October 2020.It will help establish four in... Read more >
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World Patient Safety Day 2024 Improving diagnosis for patient safety – how is Health Innovation Wessex contributing?
This year’s theme from the World Health Organisation for World Patient Safety Day on 17 Sept...
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