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  • Hundreds of young people with eating disorders to benefit from ‘gold standard’ NHS treatment

    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 >


  • New report explores innovation adoption in Wessex hospitals

    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 >


  • Safer care during Covid-19

    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 >


  • AHSNs support initiative to create local NHS ‘innovation hubs’

    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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    My mum gets her first iPad

    1 October 2020

    Meet Maureen, my 84-year-old mum, now the proud owner of an iPad.This case study was originally written to celebrate the International Day of Older Persons on 1 October 2020. My role in the Communications Team at Wessex AHSN is to share the good work the teams do. To contribute towards the valued work at Wessex AHSN, I thought it would be helpfu... Read more >


  • PINCER progress report on World Patient Safety Day

    17 September 2020

    PRIMIS - with the AHSN Network - has released a Progress Report on the national roll out of PINCER on World Patient Safety Day.The purpose of the Progress Report is to give an overview of the first 18 months of the national roll out of the pharmacist-led, IT-based intervention, which is designed to reduce clinically important medication errors i... 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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