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Issue 41 | April 2017
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In this edition

  • We're showcasing better patient care through innovation

  • Have you read our annual report?

  • AHSNs: role highlighted in 'Next Steps' update

  • Digital health: we're leading national initiative

  • Get Physical: we're a national exemplar

  • Maternity: staff get together to share learning

  • Early intervention: team shortlisted for award

  • Collaboration: Oxford partners together at major event

  • Atrial fibrillation: new initiative will cut strokes & costs

  • Living Well: pop-up shop puts spotlight on dementia

  • Leading Together: programme success recognised

  • Partner news

Partner showcase dates May 2017
WE'RE SHOWCASING BETTER PATIENT CARE THROUGH INNOVATION


The Oxford AHSN and its partners are holding a series of events to showcase joint achievements over the previous 12 months and to look ahead. They are taking place at venues across our region in May. Use the links below to find out more

BRACKNELL
2 MAY

UNIPART
18 MAY

MILTON KEYNES
4 MAY

JR HOSPITAL
16 MAY

WYCOMBE
22 MAY

ANNUAL REPORT: Have you read our latest progress report?


Diabetes babyThe Oxford AHSN has just published its 2016/17 annual report. Read it here >

The document records progress by the Oxford AHSN and its partners with a particular focus on the first three months of 2017. Featured case studies include:

Better monitoring and fewer hospital visits for women who develop diabetes during pregnancy - read more here >
 
Better data sharing through regional information governance framework - read more here >
Priorities ahead of relicensing - Prof. Gary Ford

Oxford AHSN has achieved much in its first five-year licence from NHS England which runs to 2018. In the run-up to the relicensing process for a second five-year licence our focus is shifting to align with new national priorities and local needs, and to ensure financial sustainability. Oxford AHSN Chief Executive Prof Gary Ford CBE explains more in this short film.

AHSNs: Role highlighted in 'Next Steps' update


Last week NHS England published ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’ which sets out how the NHS will deliver practical improvements while transforming the way that care is delivered to ease pressure on hospitals by helping frail and older people live healthier, more independent lives. The document makes reference to the roles that AHSNs will play in helping to create the sustainable NHS of the future. 

DIGITAL HEALTH: We're leading national initiative


Oxford Academic Health Science Network has secured a contract with NHS England to develop and support a learning network across the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme - the government’s initiative to create a network of world class organisations which support high quality care with digital technology.
NIHR Oxford Health BRC
The new NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre was launched this week. Find out more about it in this film.

Get Physical logoGET PHYSICAL: We're a national exemplar


County sports partnerships (CSPs) across England were urged to follow the example of the ‘Get Physical’ initiative which is coordinated by the Oxford AHSN. Oxford AHSN Chief Operating Officer Paul Durrands and leaders of the Berkshire and Oxfordshire CSPs told colleagues at a national conference how to set up similar collaborations to improve workplace health and wellbeing.

MATERNITY: Staff get together to share learning


Seventy people attended the latest shared learning event organised by the Oxford AHSN Maternity Clinical Network.

EARLY INTERVENTION: Team shortlisted for awardearly intervention in psychosis logo


The initiative supporting services delivering quality standards for first episode psychosis across southern England has been shortlisted for a major prize. They find out if they’ve won the Best Mental Health Team of the Year at the BMJ Awards on 4 May.
Read more in their newsletter here.

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COLLABORATION: Oxford partners together at major event


The Oxford AHSN will have a collective presence with key partners at the BioTrinity life sciences conference in London on 8-10 May. These include the Oxford Academic Health Science Centre and other partners including the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, the University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division, Oxford University Innovation, Invest in Oxfordshire and the Harwell Campus. Come and find us on Stand 37. The Oxford AHSN is a cornerstone patron of this major event and is running a workshop on digital health. More here >

We are also co-organising the annual technology showcase event at the Said Business School on 27 June. The focus this year is on precision medicine and digital health. More here >

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ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: New initiative will cut strokes & costs
 

An innovative collaboration between the NHS and Bayer is supporting GPs in Buckinghamshire to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).
The ‘Excellence in AF’ initiative, led by Oxford AHSN and the Bucks Clinical Commissioning Groups, brings together clinical and quality improvement expertise from a range of organisations.

The aim is to identify and review around 1,500 high risk patients in Bucks to understand why they are not currently receiving anticoagulation therapy and, if appropriate, start anticoagulation treatment. Based on these numbers around 20 strokes could be prevented by this project in 2017/18. With each stroke costing the NHS around £25,000, this represents a potential saving of £500,000 – on top of the significant patient benefits.

LIVING WELL: 'Pop-up shop' puts spotlight on dementia
 

Living Well Oxford logoA 'pop-up shop' will appear at an Oxford shopping centre from 15-21 May as part of activities for Dementia Awareness Week. The initiative is led by the Living Well project which is supported by the Oxford AHSN.

Leading together team with award certificate
LEADING TOGETHER: Programme success recognised
 

The Leading Together Programme was a finalist in the Leading for Service Improvement and Innovation category of the regional NHS Leadership Recognition Awards 2017.

Pictured above representing the Leading Together Programme are (left-right): back row – Sian Rees, Oxford AHSN, Douglas Findlay and Raj Arora, lay partners, Paul Durrands, Oxford AHSN; front row – Julia Hamer-Hunt, lay partner, Mildred Foster, Oxford AHSN, Sally-Jane Davidge, lay partner. Read more here >
  • Read the latest Patient and Public Involvement 'Pulse' newsletter here
 

PARTNER NEWS

  • Nurse working with Oxford AHSN to tackle non-return of mental health patients following leave has won a national prize - read more here >
  • Partners launch Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery - read more here >
     

Look out for the next Oxford AHSN newsletter in May

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