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The announcement today of a new national network focusing on applied health and social care research has been welcomed by the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (Oxford AHSN). The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) are based on the same regions as England’s 15 AHSNs and will work closely with them. […]

The Oxford AHSN has launched its Innovation Exchange for innovators offering solutions to NHS needs. The initial call is for innovations to help older people to live independent, fulfilled lives under the Healthy Ageing heading. The Innovation Exchange can be accessed here. Each AHSN in England is running an Innovation Exchange to identify, select and support […]

A tool developed by AHSNs which aims to save lives by making it easier to spot the signs of sepsis has won a national patient safety award. The Suspicion of Sepsis (SOS) Insights dashboard took the Best Emerging Solution prize at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards. It was developed by Imperial College Health Partners and […]

An Oxford initiative to improve safe prescribing of anticoagulants in primary care has won a national prize. Dr Susie Shapiro, a Consultant Haemotologist at Oxford University Hospitals, received the patient safety award at the Royal College of Pathologists Excellence Awards. It followed a collaboration between the OUH, Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, the Oxford AHSN and […]

By Dr Manu Vatish, Consultant Obstetrician, Oxford University Hospitals, and Senior Clinical Fellow with the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health. Pregnant women should be able to rely on the NHS for the best available care for them and their babies. But that doesn’t always happen. I set out to achieve […]

The findings from a survey to identify local NHS innovation and research needs have been published. The views of local health stakeholders, including clinical leaders, managers and directors, within each AHSN (Academic Health Science Networks) region were collected through qualitative interviews with 61 people and a questionnaire which received more than 250 responses in total. […]

Dr Guy Rooney is to take on the new position of medical director at the Oxford AHSN. He will have a key role in supporting innovation adoption and strengthening clinical engagement with emerging integrated care systems. Guy, pictured right, is currently medical director at Great Western Hospitals in Swindon where he has worked for almost […]

An initiative bringing together the Oxford AHSN, NHS and industry to improve patient care has won a national prize. The collaboration with Roche Diagnostics to introduce a new test for pre-eclampsia into maternity units was the winner of the ‘Best Healthcare Provider Partnership’ category of the HSJ Partnership Awards. The judges said: “This project showed […]

This Friday (15 March) is World Sleep Day – the perfect day to join the 3,000+ people in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire who have already taken advantage of a new free web-based sleep improvement programme: www.sleepio.com/NHS. As part of the first NHS rollout of direct-access digital medicine, Sleepio has been available free across the Thames Valley since […]

Almost 200 clinicians from across the Oxford AHSN region and beyond came together for three wide-ranging shared learning and networking opportunities. The collaboratives covering emergency departments, maternity and neonatal services and emergency surgery are developing into effective focal points for sharing best practice towards improved patient outcomes. The longest established are the maternity shared learning […]