17 September 2020
To celebrate World Patient Safety Day (17 September) our Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) team put a call out to health organisations around the Wessex region, asking for individual and teams’ successes over the last year.The PSC team received a terrific response, all wanting to recognise the amazing work achieved across Wessex for the safety ... Read more >
4 September 2020
Wessex AHSN has today - Friday, 4 September - won a prestigious national HSJ Value Award.Along with colleagues at West Hampshire CCG, Somerset CCG and NHS Kernow, the AHSN won for its RESTORE2 project; right care, right place, right time for care home residents.The work won in the 'System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative' categor... Read more >
1 September 2020
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) – an NHS England initiative supported by England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and hosted at UCLPartners – has launched its call for applications representing high impact, evidence-based innovations. The call is open to local, national and international healthcare innovations supported by pass... Read more >
19 August 2020
Isorropia means balance in Greek, and that’s exactly what the Isorropia Foundation - a mental health wellbeing service on the Isle of Wight – is supporting people to achieve.Working in close partnership with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, the service was founded by Vicki Haworth and Charlie Bell who both have extensive backgrounds working in menta... Read more >
10 August 2020
The slides cover the AHSN's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and provides a review of 2019-20. There are also case studies where AHSN staff returned to the frontline NHS, to support our colleagues with the response to Covid-19. All documents can be viewed or downloaded below. Bill Gillespie, Chief Executive of Wessex AHSN, said: "Thanks to the... Read more >
3 August 2020
A new King’s Fund report titled Technology and innovation for long-term health conditions uses four unique case studies to outline and discuss key themes of effective implementation of digital innovation.The AHSN Network commissioned the King’s Fund to explore four different digital innovations in health services from the UK and the Nordic count... 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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