Wessex AHSN shortlisted for prestigious HSJ Awards

Wessex AHSN have been short listed for the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards. The HSJ Awards are the largest celebration of excellence in UK healthcare, highlighting the most innovative and successful people and projects in the sector.

Wessex AHSN have been short listed for the following awards for our work in respiratory quality improvement;

Value and Improvement in the use of Diagnostics

Value and Improvement in Clinical Support Services

Value and Improvement in Acute Service Redesign

Wessex AHSN is an organisation working towards improving the health of the region by linking quality improvement in the NHS with research and innovations. Our Respiratory Quality Improvement Programme welcomes the findings of the Asthma UK report. Many of our projects are in direct response to last year’s National Review into Asthma Deaths and we see that there is still complacency within healthcare systems, patients and the public around asthma.

We support projects such as the following :

• MISSION Asthma: A two step rapid access service. First clinic involves reviewing and optimising the management of patients with asthma in the community with access to experts in asthma, specialist tests and tailored treatments. The second clinic provides more intensive assessment by a specialist team for the most severely affected patients.
  
• Pharmacists having a greater role in monitoring and improving care for patients with asthma
  
• Mobile phone technology supporting teenagers with asthma
  
• A pilot scheme where patients have free preventer inhalers for their asthma
  
• Improving education and skills around asthma within schools
  
• Using the Primary Care Respiratory Society EQUIP tools – including identifying and treating uncontrolled asthma
  
• Helping develop the Wessex Asthma Network so that patients with the most difficult asthma have access to expert opinion and treatments within Wessex.
  

Best of luck to our AHSN team at the upcoming HSJ awards taking place on the 22nd of September 2015 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. 

For further information about the AHSN’s Respiratory Quality Improvement Programme, please contact Rachel Dominey, Senior Project Manager for Wessex AHSN, on 07990 002107 or by email at rachel.dominey@wessexahsn.net.