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  • AHSN supports local hospitals to quickly implement innovations

    6 March 2020

    Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) has successfully supported a number of our local hospital partners to apply for funding the under the Accelerated Access Collaborative Pathway Transformation Fund (PFT). The PTF helps healthcare providers – such as big hospitals - make new innovations everyday practice, as quickly as possible, by add... Read more >


  • 11 new innovators tapped to transform England’s NHS through national acceleration

    5 March 2020

    The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has announced today the 11 high impact innovations joining the national accelerator in 2020. At a launch event chaired by Professor Stephen Powis, National Medical Director for NHS England and NHS Improvement, the 2020 cohort of Fellows presented their innovations to key stakeholders, including Tony Young, Na... Read more >


  • AHSN shortlisted for HSJ Value award

    3 March 2020

    Wessex AHSN has been shortlisted for a prestigious national HSJ Value Award.Along with colleagues at West Hampshire CCG, Somerset CCG and NHS Kernow, the AHSN is shortlisted for its RESTORE2 project; right care, right place, right time for care home residents. The work is shortlisted in the 'System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative... Read more >


  • New pharmacy referral service to help patients avoid hospital readmission

    24 February 2020

    A NHS Discharge Medicines Service has been launched by the Department of Health and Social Care to give patients extra guidance around new prescribed medicines after being discharged from hospital.Patients who could benefit from additional support after hospital discharge will be digitally referred to community pharmacists, to ease pressures on ... Read more >


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    Guest blog: Professor Martin J Vernon describes the national health policy on clinical frailty

    14 February 2020

    Martin qualified in 1988 in Manchester. He trained as a Geriatrician in North West England and London and has been a consultant geriatrician in Manchester since 1999. He has a MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College London which he teaches at Salford University and is a visiting Professor at the University of Chester, with academic inte... Read more >


  • New NHS data suggests state of the nation’s health worse than we thought

    13 February 2020

    A new report released by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Longevity has revealed that we’re living longer – but for many these are just extra years of bad health.The APPG for Longevity has spent nine months gathering expert evidence for the report, The Health of the Nation – a strategy for healthier longer lives, including contributi... 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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