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  • SIM shortlisted for four HSJ Value in Healthcare awards

    24 May 2017

    A pioneering project integrating mental health care and policing on the Isle of Wight is receiving further national recognition. The Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) project run by Hampshire Constabulary and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, and supported by Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), is nominated in FOUR categories for this ye... Read more >


  • The National Patient Safety Collaborative: delivering on a promise to learn – a commitment to act

    24 May 2017

    As our patient safety collaboratives programme moves into its third year, we celebrated how far we’ve already come with a major event at the Emirates Stadium in London on Tuesday, 23 May. Colleagues improving patient safety across the country gathered together to:share and spread learning so far from the 15 regional patient safety collaboratives... Read more >


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    Join us for the Dorset Health Innovation Forum

    18 May 2017

    Co-hosted by Wessex Academic Health Science Network and Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the forum will showcase national innovations available through the Innovation & Technology Tariff, and from within the local health system, that have the potential to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. You can book your place here.... Read more >


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    Q: Another draw on my ever shrinking capacity or a rare opportunity not to be missed?

    18 May 2017

    When immersed in a day job which is all consuming, I think one of the essential skills is to weed out the good new opportunities from the energy sapping and slightly off-piste initiatives that fly our way on a regular basis. I tend to triage them using a couple of simple criteria – will they deliver a positive impact and is it within my area of ... Read more >


  • Using diagnostics to enable new models of urgent and emergency care event

    9 May 2017

    On 27 June at Warwick Racecourse, West Midlands and Oxford AHSNs are bringing together NHS urgent and emergency care directors and specialists, commissioners, medical and nursing directors, Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) leads, NHS transformation and improvement leads, out of hours care providers, general practice, ambulance... Read more >


  • Innovation supply and demand: never the twain shall meet?

    8 May 2017

    Co-founder of the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), Dr Amanda Begley, introduces a new series of research and real-world insight from the NIA, which addresses what it will take for supply and demand for innovation in healthcare to be better matched. I am repeatedly inspired by the great work happening both within and alongside the NHS to improve... 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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