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6 July 2016

We’re delighted to announce that our work with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust to improve the care and safety of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has won the Improving Safety in Medicines Management category at the national Patient Safety Awards.MISSION COPD (Modern Innovative Solutions to Improve Outcomes in COPD) combi... Read more >

6 July 2016

Interested in joining a programme that is supporting the innovators from across the world?  Find out more about the NHS Innovation Accelerator at one of our information sessions taking place on Friday 8 July and Wednesday 13 July 2016.The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) aims to improve lives through fast tracking cutting-edge, low cost innovati... Read more >

5 July 2016

On the evening of 4th July, staff, patients and families, along with special guests including the Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane, and the Mayor of Winchester, met in the beautiful venue of Froyle Park, near Alton, to celebrate the individuals and teams who had been nominated for Hampshire Hospitals Director of Nursing Awards - Celebrating Compas... Read more >

4 July 2016

Patient Safety Collaboratives – delivering on a promise. It has been two years since Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) were set up in response to the Berwick Report, A promise to learn – a commitment to act.Professor Don Berwick wrote: ‘The most important single change in the NHS in response to this report would be for it to become, more than... Read more >

4 July 2016

A report will be launched at Patient Safety Congress 5-6 July which highlights the achievements of the AHSN Patient Safety Collaboratives.‘Patient Safety Collaboratives – Making care safer for all’ shows how Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative (Wessex PSC) and the 14 other Collaboratives in England are spreading improvements and influencing syst... Read more >

1 July 2016

Community pharmacists, pharmacy advocates and public health allies gathered at the Millennium Gloucester hotel on 30 June 2016 to celebrate The Pharmacist’s inaugural awards.The awards toasted the ambitious forward-thinkers in independent community pharmacy and recognised those who lead from the front in the campaign to take on more services.Lin... Read more >