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  • Covid Oximetry
    • Covid Oximetry
  • Covid Oximetry at Home Toolkit
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    Wessex AHSN Quick Start Guide

    Section 1: Guidance for pulse oximetry for virtual wards - NHS England

    Section 2: Revised adult primary care Covid-19 assessment pathway

    Section 2: Example stakeholder list - Wessex AHSN

    Section 2: Stakeholder analysis template NHS Improvement

    Section 2: Example Covid Virtual Ward SOP - North Hampshire

    Section 2: Example system-wide primary care model - Southampton

    Section 2: Call handler SOP for clinicians

    Section 2: Remote monitoring quick start guide - Winchester PCN

    Section 2: Clinical competency resources

    Section 2: accuRx clinician guide

    Section 2: Using volunteers to support Covid virtual ward models

    Section 2: How to apply for pulse oximeters NHS England

    Section 2: Example decontamination protocol Winchester

    Section 3: CVW and CO@h definitions for the purposes of evaluation

    Section 3: Covid Virtual Ward Models rapid evaluation UCL

    Section 3: Examples of patient experience survey questions Wessex

    Section 4: Covid Oximetry@home Patient Information Leaflet HIOW

    Section 4: Diary for pulse oximetry for virtual wards - NHS England

    Section 4: Covid Isolating at Home Safety Netting leaflet NHS England

    Section 4: Pulse ox videos multiple languages Slough

    Section 5: Covid Virtual Ward top tips and lessons Oxford AHSN

    Section 5: Covid-19 virtual ward patient stories Slough

    Section 5: PDSA cycles NHS Improvement

    Section 5: Cause and effect analysis - NHS Improvement

    Section 5: Remote monitoring using pulse oximeters in care homes

    Section 5: Remote monitoring using pulse oximetry in care homes webinar Q&A

    Section 6: Covid Oximetry at Home FAQs Wessex AHSN

    NHS England and Improvement SOP

    Section 1: Webinar: Virtual ward with pulse oximetry Dr Matt Inada-Kim

    Section 4: Adult pulse oximetry monitoring diary animation HEE

    Section 4: Diary for virtual ward translated versions NHS England

    Section 5: RESTORE2 deterioration and escalation tool Wessex AHSN

    Section 5: NHSI Improvement Hub

    Section 5: Guide to quality improvement methods - HQIP

    Section 5: How to Improve - IHI

    Section 5: Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in care homes - British Geriatrics Society

    Section 5: Covid-19 NHS clinical support for care homes - gov.uk

    HSJ CO@h training resources

    Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative

    Oxford Patient Safety Collaborative

    Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative

  • Covid Virtual Ward (secondary care)
    • Resources

    Covid Virtual Ward Information Pack (by West of England AHSN)

    NHS England letter: Covid Virtual Wards

    How to access the Covid Virtual Ward toolkit

    Covid Virtual Ward NIRB slides (6 Jan 2021)

    NHS England national webinar slides (13 Jan 2021)

    CVW: Pulse Oximeter Request Proforma

    Step 2: Example stakeholder list - Wessex AHSN

    Step 2: Stakeholder analysis template NHS Improvement

    Step 3: NHS England Standard Operating Procedure CVW

    Step 3: NHS England Quick guide for SDEC and CVW during Covid-19

    Step 4: Buckinghamshire Healthcare virtual ward pathway

    Step 4: Oxford University Hospitals virtual ward pathway

    Step 4: Royal Free London NHS FT Hampstead virtual ward pathway

    Step 4: Brighton and Sussex Uni Hospitals NHS Trust Oxygen at home SOP

    Step 4: Case Study - SDEC and CVW Salford Royal NHS FT

    Step 4: Case Study - SDEC during Covid-19 Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

    Step 4: Using NHS Volunteers to support CVW models

    Step 5: Pulse oximeter FAQs for CVW 080121

    Step 6: Local learning systems info for CVW

    CVW and CO@h definitions for the purposes of evaluation

    Covid Isolating at home safety netting leaflet

    Covid-19 information leaflet Hindi - Brighton and Sussex Medical School

    Covid-19 information leaflet Nepali - Brighton and Sussex Medical School

    Learning disability resources for Covid oximetry - FutureNHS

    Translated and accessible Covid-19 patient diaries (NHS England)

    Multilingual Covid-19 guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection (Gov.uk)

    Early data from the NHSX remote monitoring pilot

    Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in care homes - British Geriatrics Society

    Covid-19 NHS clinical support for care homes - gov.uk

    Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative

    Oxford Patient Safety Collaborative

    Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative

  • CVD - Cardiovascular Disease
    • CVD - Cardiovascular Disease
  • Blood Pressure Optimisation
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  • CVD Prevent
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  • Expert Advice and Information from third sector - Heart UK, British Heart Foundation and Blood Pressure UK
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  • Digital Resources Hub
    • Digital Resources Hub

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  • Environmental Sustainability
    • Environmental Sustainability
  • Wessex Green Strategy
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  • Building a movement
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  • Greener NHS webinars
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  • Measuring Impact -environmental and social
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  • FeNO - Fractional exhaled nitric oxide - for the diagnosis and management of Asthma
    • FeNO - Fractional exhaled nitric oxide - for the diagnosis and management of Asthma
  • FeNO Programme Brief
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  • Frequently asked questions
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  • The AHSN Network
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  • Help with identifying your patients - system searches and prevalence data
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  • Help for Patients
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  • Asthma Biologics
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  • Health Inequalities
    • Health Inequalities
  • Addressing health inequalities through research and innovation
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  • Healthy Ageing
    • Healthy Ageing
  • Frailty Fundamentals
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  • Healthy Ageing Toolkits
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  • Completed Projects
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  • Improving Health in Care Homes
    • Improving Health in Care Homes
  • Innovation Evaluations
    • Innovation Evaluations
  • Evaluation of Happy, Healthy, at Home: Symposium 3
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  • Evaluation of Happy, Healthy, at Home: Symposium 1
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  • What is the Innovation Exchange?
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  • Innovation Insight
    • Innovation Insight
  • Lipid Management
    • Lipid Management
  • Background
    • Resources

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  • Medicines Optimisation
    • Medicines Optimisation
  • Polypharmacy Programme Overview
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    Polypharmacy case studies

  • Pillar 2: Polypharmacy Education & Training
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  • Polypharmacy QI Posters
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    Safe and appropriate prescribing of Gabapentoids

    Optimising medications in frail patients to improve health outcomes

    Review of gabapentinoid prescribing

    Mental health polypharmacy in non-coded primary care patients

    Improving medication review in older patients at risk of falls due to medication causing low blood pressure

    Reducing anticoagulant risk in patients with frailty in North West Surrey

    When less is more: Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors

    High dose Opiate Deprescribing in General Practice

    Utilising the 7-step Polypharmacy Tool to guide a multi-disciplinary team meeting for hyper polypharmacy review

    Impact of pharmacist-led medication reviews on the frailty virtual ward (South West Essex)

    Review of patients on high dose opioids at Living Well PCN

    Mind over bladder - prevent harm associated with excessive or inappropriate anticholinergic burden

    Polypharmacy - A Pharmacist Led Medication Review Clinic

    Impact of DAMN drugs reviews in Dudley

    Impact of an EMIS search to prioritise care home residents for a pharmacist led medication review

    Structured medication reviews support

    Improving Medication Reviews using the NO TEARS Tool

    Evaluating the impact of a specialist frailty multidisciplinary team pathway with clinical pharmacist involvement

    Review of ferrous sulphate prescribing

    Incidental finding of importance of clinical coding

    Polypharmacy reviews of asthma and COPD patients over 65 and on 10 or more medicines

    Polypharmacy reviews in outpatient clinics: Beginning the structure medication review in bone health clinic

    Too much of a good thing - Deprescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs)

    Assessing the outcomes of structured medication reviews

    Reducing medication related falls risk in patients with severe frailty

    SBAR Patient Engagement Tool

    Reducing opioid prescribing

    Comprehensive and person-centred approach to addressing Polypharmacy in adult care home residents

    Polypharmacy - focus ACB - care homes

    Case Series - Structured Medication Review in Care Home Residents - Reducing the Burden

    Identifying Orthostatic Hypotension caused by Medication

    Audit of care home medication reviews

    Reducing problematic polypharmacy in Haringey care homes

    Pharmacist interventions and medication reviews at care homes - improving medication safety and patient outcomes

    Structured medication review in care home with focus on deprescribing and reducing anticholinergic burden

    Harnessing Digital Tools in Medicines Optimisation to tackle Health Inequalities

    How do you best get that message across - Improving access to medication reviews for people from ethnic minority communities

    Improving care in County Durham under the STOMP agenda - A 5 year review

    To evaluate the benefits of Structured Medication Reviews in elderly Chinese patients

    Re-establishing autonomy in elderly frail patients

    Reducing polypharmacy and ACB scores - A multi-faceted approach for improved patient outcomes

    Evaluation of the deprescribing of anticholinergic medications in dementia patients

    Reducing anticholinergic burden (ACB)

    Use of anticholinergic burden (ACB) scores in a GP setting

    Reducing anticholinergic burden by conducting structured medication reviews

    Methotrexate and renal impairment

    Appropriate treatment and follow up with intravenous iron on medical wards at Milton Keynes University Hospital

    Catch me before I fall….

    Embracing Digital Tools to ensure Optimal Care: Utilising MS Teams to deliver SMRs in Care Homes

    Improving the care of patients receiving combined antiplatelet and warfarin therapy

    A Focus on CGA and SMR for Residents from Care Homes with Highest Admission Rates

    Deprescribing in Central Liverpool Primary Care Network (CLPCN)

    Proton Pump Inhibitor Deprescribing

    Oral Nutritional Supplement (ONS) Prescribing Within a Care Home—A High Cost Alternative?

  • Resources and Completed Projects
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  • Mental Health
    • Mental Health
  • Mental Health Innovation Support Programme
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  • Early Intervention in Eating Disorders
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  • Independent Evaluation of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Alternatives to Crisis Programme
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  • Aldershot Safe Haven Evaluation
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  • Are you involved in supporting or leading organisational change?
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  • National Programmes
    • National Programmes
  • NHS Innovation Accelerator
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  • Polypharmacy Programme Overview
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    Polypharmacy case studies

  • Early Intervention in Eating Disorders
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  • FeNO Programme Brief
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  • Lipid Management and FH
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  • Asthma Biologics
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  • What is the Innovation Exchange?
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  • Nationally Prioritised Innovations
    • Nationally Prioritised Innovations
  • About the Programme
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  • MedTech Funding Mandate
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    MedTech Funding Mandate (MTFM) - Matt Whitty

  • NHS Innovation Accelerator
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  • Innovation Adoption Reviews
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  • Are you involved in supporting or leading organisational change?
    • Resources
  • Asthma Biologics
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  • NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme (NIPP)
    • NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme (NIPP)

    There are currently no projects within this programme.

  • Patient Safety Collaborative
    • Patient Safety Collaborative
  • Case Studies
    • Resources

    CS1. Developing a system wide approach to improving the detection and management of deteriorating patients using NEWS2

    CS2. Co-producing RESTORE2, the NEWS2 based physical deterioration and escalation tool for Care Homes

    CS3. Identifying early signs of Physical Deterioration using Soft Signs

    CS4. Co-producing RESTORE2mini – Using Soft Signs and SBAR/D to improve the identification of Physical Deterioration and the communication of concerns in care settings

    CS5. Promoting RESTORE2 and RESTORE2mini as part of a system response to Covid-19 in Care Homes and Domiciliary /Home Care settings

    CS6. Collaborative working to develop video resources to support Carers to identify deterioration and communicate concern

    CS7. Using a system wide “Train the Trainer” approach to support the Care sector to manage physical deterioration and communicate concerns

    CS8. Joint working to support the adoption of RESTORE2mini in Learning Disability Care settings across England

    CS9. Supporting the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework

    CS10. RESTORE2mini for Domiciliary Care – A collaborative project to improve the identification of Physical Deterioration and the communication of concerns in Domiciliary / Home care settings

    CS11. A Domiciliary Care collaboration to improve staff confidence around hydration care reducing/preventing dehydration related deterioration

    CS12. ARISE+ Co-designing a model to support patient & carer engagement in Quality Improvement projects

    CS13. PEWS: Wessex Paediatric Teams lead on initial usability testing - Wessex PSC work closely with ODN to support 2 of the 3 sites that undertook the initial usability testing of a new system to identify and escalate deteriorating children.

    CS14. PEWS: The Power of Networks - South East PSCs work together with ODN to support the implementation of a new system to identify and escalate deteriorating children.

    CS15. Preterm Optimisation Pathway for Neonates Born Less Than 34 Weeks Gestation- Early Breast Milk

    CV16. MHSIP: Reducing Restrictive Practice on Afton ward

    CS17. MHSIP: Reducing Restrictive Practice on Beechwood ward

    CS18. MHSIP: Reducing Restrictive Practice on Juniper ward

    CS19. MHSIP: Reducing Restrictive Practice on Kingsley ward

    CS20. Supporting the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) across Wessex

    CS21. MHSIP: Reducing Restrictive Practice on Beechwood ward (Emotion Tree)

    CS22. MatNeo Coaching Project

    CSV1. Managing Deterioration in Care Settings during the Covid-19 pandemic

    CSV2. Video Resources to support Care settings during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Working together to promote the use of RESTORE2 and RESTORE2mini as part of a system response to Covid-19 across the SW

  • Completed Projects
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  • Q - Wessex
    • Q - Wessex
  • Who is Q for and how do I join?
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  • Q Webinar Series
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  • Wessex Covid Community of Practice (WCCOP)
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