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31 October 2016

The Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative is one of 15 AHSN Patient Safety Collaboratives playing a major role at the annual Patient First event. The Collaboratives are hosting a new Best Practice theatre at the conference and exhibition, which takes place at London’s ExCeL on 22nd and 23rd November.Patient First is attended by more than 3,400 hea... Read more >

28 October 2016

Innovative and effective work, supported by Wessex AHSN, and led by Hampshire Constabulary and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, to help mental health patients, has been recognised with a prestigious national award endorsed by royalty.A project known as Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) is the winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integra... Read more >

26 October 2016

We are very pleased to announce we have been shortlisted six times for the Nursing Times Awards 2016! The winners are due to be announced tonight - Wednesday, 26 October - at a prestigious ceremony in London. For the full shortlist, please visit the awards' website. Our breathlessness project has been shortlisted in four categories:Respiratory N... Read more >

25 October 2016

A national report, with clear recommendations to the UK government on reforms to speed up patients’ access to innovative medicines, technologies and products, launched on Monday, 24 October. The aim is to make the UK the best place in the world to design, develop and deliver healthcare innovations, with an NHS that embraces the new drugs and tec... Read more >

20 October 2016

NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow, Penny Newman, explains the motivation behind her new #betterconversation campaign; empowering people to take control of their health and care.Our aim is to enable people to thrive by feeling motivated, confident and in control of their own health and care, achieved through #betterconversation (www.betterconvers... Read more >

17 October 2016

I am pleased to let you know that we have appointed Dr David Kryl as Director of Insight for the AHSN. David’s career has revolved around strategy, performance and project management in complex environments. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, and supplemented this with an economics degree from the University o... Read more >