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  • Construction begins for St Clements Partnership

    31 March 2023

    Construction has begun for a new general practice surgery in Winchester, with Wessex AHSN supporting its evolution as an innovative facility for staff and patients. Image courtesy of Assura plc Winchester-based St Clements Surgery has roughly 17,000 registered patients and is currently situated several hundred yards away from where the... Read more >


  • Seventeen new Fellows join the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme in 2023

    24 March 2023

    The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has announced 17 new Fellows will join the programme in 2023. This is the largest cohort for the programme since its launch in 2015 and results in the programme now supporting close to 100 Fellows.The successful Fellows have created innovations that offer solutions to some of the most pressing NHS needs. They... Read more >


  • Awards celebrating innovation in health and care open for entries

    1 March 2023

    The Innovate Awards 2023, which celebrate innovation in health and care are back for its second year and open for entries, delivered collaboratively between the AHSN Network and NHS Confederation.Following the high standard and volume of entries received in 2022, a new category has been added to celebrate the best use of data in health innovatio... Read more >


  • Wessex Health Partners appoints Christine McGrath as Managing Director

    23 February 2023

    Wessex Health Partners (WHP), a new learning partnership accelerating better health through research, education and innovation, has appointed Christine McGrath as its inaugural Managing Director.Christine has a clinical background and has developed her career from a research nurse to leadership roles regionally and nationally, founding and chair... Read more >


  • Innovators are ‘Bridging the Gap’ with new integrated care systems

    16 February 2023

    Tickets for the event on Wednesday 22 March 2023 at Sandy Park, Exeter available now at https://swahsn.com/event/bridging-the-gap-2023/, free to innovators.Bridging the Gap is a distinctive business-led event to support health and care innovators navigate the NHS. Organised by four Academic Health Science Networks: Wessex AHSN; South West AHSN; ... Read more >


  • How can we support innovation adoption to improve health and care? Help to shape a new national programme

    27 January 2023

    How can we support our health and care workforce to implement great innovations that will improve care?What skills do different staff need to get great ideas adopted in different health and care settings?Join our Rapid Insight event and share your insights and ideas.NHS England’s Innovation, Research and Life Sciences (IRLS) team/Health Educatio... 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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