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 Dear colleagues, I would like to let you know that on 01 March 2017 I will be leaving Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network (GM AHSN) to undertake a secondment as the AHSN National Coordinating Director.
This is a newly created position, working with the 15 Academic Health Science Networks, that has been established to work at national level with all Academic Health Science Networks. The main purpose of this role is to support all AHSNs in expediting the realisation of adoption and spread of innovation across England, liaise with key NHS England stakeholders and funding bodies, and lead the performance reporting function. It has been a difficult decision for me, to even temporarily step away from GM AHSN. However, this is a fantastic opportunity & it enables me to operate and influence the innovation space on a national footprint while advancing the AHSN reputation and agenda on behalf of all 15 Academic Health Science Networks.
Although the post is predominantly based in London, I will be retaining a desk in Manchester, so you will no doubt still see me around occasionally.
Interim Arrangements have been agreed and I am delighted to confirm that Amanda Risino will take on the role as Acting Managing Director. Amanda is an inspirational leader with a wealth of experience in health and social care and will undoubtedly ensure that we continue to successfully deliver against our objectives, and further develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with all our members.
Mike Burrows
Managing Director
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Amanda Risino Biography
 Amanda attended Salford University 1988 - 1990, and graduated as a physiotherapist. She later gained a Master's Degree from Liverpool University, and completed a further Master’s Degree in Primary Care Leadership from Manchester Business School, Manchester University.
Initially starting work as a junior physiotherapist in Runcorn, Amanda then moved into a community setting in mid-Cheshire where a number of posts were held ranging from Senior Practitioner to Therapy and Intermediate Care Manager. Amanda left Cheshire as a Director of Operational Services to join Knowsley Primary Care Trust as the Director of Service Provision in 2002.
After returning from maternity leave, Amanda took up the joint post of Director of Knowsley Integrated Provider Services across health and social care, leading one of the country’s most successful integrated provider arms. Following Transforming community services lead the successful transfer and integration of the entire integrated provider into 5 boroughs mental health foundation trust. After two years she moved to Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation trust where she held the post of Associate Director for a further two years. Before joining GM AHSN as Chief Operations Officer in November 2016, she held senior positions at St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Warrington Health and Social Care Economy.
Amanda is passionate about coaching and mentoring, and has a post graduate diploma in executive coaching.
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GM AHSN Spring Engagement Event
We are pleased to announce the agenda for our engagement event, on Wednesday 15 March at The Place Aparthotel, Manchester.
08:30 – 09:00 Arrival registration and coffee
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and introductions
09:15 – 10:00 Plenary – Keith Willets
10:00 – 11:00 Breakout presentations:
Room 1 - Commissioner presentations:
- Rachel Binks: ‘The art of the possible; the how, what and why of telemedicine in care homes’.
- Speaker TBC
- GM AHSN's Public Experience Group: 'DataWell: including the patient and public voice - our journey so far'
Room 2 - Provider presentations:
11.00 – 11.45 Plenary (TBC)
11:45 – 12:00 Summary
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch and close
You can now register here.
We look forward to welcoming you in March.
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EVENT: Samantha Jones, New Care Models Programme Director visiting GM AHSN
Monday 20 February
12.30-13.30
Conference Room 1 - Citylabs, Nelson St, M13 9NQ
We are privileged to be hosting Samantha Jones at an event at Citylabs. We are opening out invitations to our members to attend and hear Samantha's update on the New Care Models programme. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to attend, please email communications@gmahsn.org.
Samantha Jones, New Care Models Programme Director, NHS England
Samantha Jones was appointed as NHS England’s New Care Models Programme Director in January 2015 leading the implementation outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
She started her NHS career as a paediatric and general nurse and was a national management trainee. Having worked in a variety of operational management roles, and in the national clinical governance support team, she became the Chief Executive of Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust.
Following this, Samantha worked in the independent sector before she was appointed Chief Executive of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust in February 2013.
In 2014 she was awarded HSJ CEO of the Year and the Trust’s “Onion” was highly commended in the patient safety award.
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Value of Academic Health Science Networks referenced in government strategy document
The government has recently published its Building our Industrial Strategy: green paper. The document looks at addressing the UK economies long term challenges and sets out our approach to build a modern industrial strategy. Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) have been mentioned under health to support the adoption of innovation and local health economies, highlighting our value and role within the health sector. The Green Paper is a public consultation and the government is encouraging every sector of industry, businesses of every size and individuals to give their comments and views.
To get involved and to access a copy of the paper, click here.
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Patient Safety Resources
We want to share with you some helpful material produced as part of the national programme of patient safety work commissioned by NHS Improvement from AHSNs nationally. The links below lead to work undertaken in the West of England & now adopted across a number of their hospitals. The work relates to the deteriorating patient and in particular use of the Emergency Department Safety checklist.
Please use as freely as you wish. We know it isn’t an easy proposition to implement when your hospitals are in black escalation, but it's great when it's already in place when winter comes. We have clinical leads and an improvement lead who can talk to people about it and we can run master classes with notice.
Links
> Implementing the Emergency Department Safety Toolkit
> Implementing the National Early Warning Score (NEWS)
> NEWS Information Sheet
> NEWS Patient Story Boards
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Video
Our colleagues at North East and North Cumbria AHSN have recently produced this video, in partnership with the British Lung Foundation, to raise awareness of the benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The video is being shown to patients in clinic waiting rooms, and we would like to encourage our members and partners to share it more widely amongst your networks.
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4S DAWN and AHSNs working together to broaden access to key TTR data and improve the management of AF nationwide
For the past two years, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and Public Health England (PHE) have been working to expand access to key healthcare datasets that allow evaluation of the patient care pathway for Atrial Fibrillation (AF). Through the AF Landscape Tool, data from diagnosis and management in primary practice is integrated with stroke outcomes in secondary care.
Read more on our website.
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BLOG: Caroline Poole at the Simple Telehealth Conference
 Caroline Poole, Clinical Improvement Lead at Pennine Care NHS Trust recently attended the Simple Telehealth National Conference in Stoke-on-Trent to give a presentation entitled: “Sustainability and spread across multiple pathways in Community and Mental health services”. In this blog she tells us more about the experience.
Read Caroline's Blog.
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£700K investment in innovations that target hospital efficiency
SBRI Healthcare announced eight companies will receive funding to develop innovations that aim to improve operational efficiency in acute care through the management of patient flow. The successful technologies focus on activities that will enable more efficient progress through acute care, including diagnostics, therapy and discharge.
Read the full story on our website.
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Job opportunity: Innovation Nexus Project Manager
The post holder will be responsible for the on-going project management and development of the Innovation Nexus (IN) system; reporting on the evolution and delivery of the various workstreams and programmes and collating and interrogating the information held within the IN system and from other sources involved in the Wealth and Industry workstream of the GM AHSN programme.
View full details on our website.
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We recently held two 'Mobilise the NHS' events, bringing together clinicians from Salford Royal NHS Trust with digital SMEs from the Greater Manchester region. Working together in four teams, the participants came up with some great digital and app-based solutions to healthcare issues. Find out more in this video.
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Antrim Area Hospital takes up 100% challenge
As part of the ongoing work to improve the flow of patients through the hospital, Antrim Area Hospital staff participated in a challenge recently, organised by GM AHSN’s Utilisation Management Unit, to exceed the Trust’s accomplishment of the regional four hour target.
The Department of Health target is that 95% of all patients attending Emergency Departments should be treated and discharged or admitted within four hours of their arrival. In the latest regional statistics published, 71.6% of patients in Type 1 Emergency Departments across Northern Ireland were seen, treated and discharged or admitted within four hours.
Read the full story on our website.
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MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) scheme now open: Information event and networking lunch
Wednesday 15 February 2017 - 11.00
CTF Building
The University has secured funding from the fifth round of the MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) scheme. An information event for CiC 2017 has been scheduled for 15th February to share experience from the previous rounds of the programme and provide guidance to potential applicants on how to prepare a competitive CiC proposal.
The event will include an overview of the scheme, an industry perspective on the programme and details about the process for applications this year. The meeting will end with a networking session (from noon, with lunch/refreshments) and the opportunity to get advice on your CiC proposal ideas from FBMH Strategic Funding Team colleagues and an industry perspective from Dr John Stageman, BioNow.
Register here.
MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) scheme 2017: Call details
The call is now open, EoI deadline: 10am Friday 24th February 2017.
Full guidance about the call and the application process.
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Manchester Molecular Pathology Innovation Centre – Annual Symposium
9 March 2017 - 12.30 – 17.00
Citylabs, Nelson St, Manchester
Manchester Molecular Pathology Innovation Centre (MMPathIC) is one of six molecular pathology nodes funded by MRC and EPSRC to facilitate the translation of stratified medicine discovery to biomarker-based tests in the clinic for patient benefit.
You are warmly invited to the MMPathIC Annual Symposium 2017 which will provide an update on current activities, future strategy, and the opportunities available to researchers, clinicians and industry.
Register here.
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Stroke Association Priority Programme Award in Haemorrhagic Stroke.
Priority Programme Award:
- Award amount: up to £450,000 for a period of 3 to 5 years
- Deadline for Expression of Interest forms: 5PM on 1 March 2017.
After this date, prospective applicants will be emiled with the full application forms for completion by 1 June 2017. Please Note: Applications will not be accepted from those who did not register an Expression of Interest for this call.
More information.
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Greater Manchester Stroke Operation Delivery Network Annual Conference
1 March 2017
The GM Stroke ODN is holding its inaugural conference in March, which will feature a mixture of talks and seminars. The event is free and aimed at professionals involved with delivering stroke care.
The keynote speaker is Juliet Bouverie, Chief Executive of the Stroke Association and you can view the full programme here.
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National Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Poster Competition 2017
Deadline: 16 March 2017
Do you have an innovative, measurable solution to a patient safety issue? Have you made a difference to quality of care?
Judges will be looking for examples of innovation, joint working and proven outcomes. If your entry is shortlisted you will be invited to create and print a poster for display at the Bristol Patient Safety Conference on 3rd May 2017 and will qualify for a discounted delegate rate of £149.
Apply online here.
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Business of Science Conference
18 May 2017
Museum of Science and Industry
The Business of Science Conference will see leading experts take to the stage to engage and inspire industry, showing the important link between scientific discovery and commercialisation.
High-profile speakers include Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, and Richard Carter, managing director UK and Ireland for BASF.
For more information on the event, visit www.businessofscience.co.uk
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Mummy's Star Annual Conference
Saturday 4 March 2017
It has been a busy time for us here at Mummy’s Star and our conference is an excellent opportunity to meet the team, get up to date on the work we are doing and the future of care for women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy and post birth.
Register here.
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Safer Primary Care: A shared responsibility for system-wide learning
7-8 March 2017
Patient safety is a topic frequently covered in the news, yet the majority of research to date has taken place in secondary care settings, such as hospitals. With primary care accounting for 85 percent of patient contact with the NHS, the NIHR Greater Manchester PSTRC aims to redress this balance, focusing exclusively on researching patient safety in primary care settings, such as general practice and community pharmacy.
Find out more & register.
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Women into Leadership Healthcare
22 March 2017
Women represent an overwhelming majority of the healthcare workforce, yet they are significantly underrepresented in senior leadership positions. Join this event in Central London on March 22nd to discuss together how we can manage the challenges of modern leadership and help ensure we don't lose momentum in recognising and rewarding female leaders across the health and social care landscape.
Register now.
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