Blogs
Please find below a range of blogs on healthcare innovation.
Reflections on Loneliness for Mental Health Awareness Week
11th May 2022
For Mental Health Awareness Week, Growing OH Health and Wellbeing Lead, Hannah Greaves, blogs on the theme of loneliness, support available and how initiatives like the Growing OH pilot are worki
Environmental Sustainability in Primary Care – How to reach the NHS net zero ambition
26th April 2022
In October 2020, the Greener NHS campaign launched its ambition for the NHS to become the first Net Zero health service in the world. In this blog, North East GP and Director of SEE Sustainability, Matthew Sawyer, discusses sustainability issues…
Driving sustainability in pharmacy for the health of patients and the planet
13th April 2022
Great North Pharmacy Research Collaborative Conference Chair, Min Na Eii, is calling for everyone in the profession to play their part in driving sustainability and the green agenda.
The role of digital transformation to improve lives: Ann Slee
13th April 2022
The role of digital transformation to improve lives: Ann Slee
What is innovation? Spotlight on innovation in primary care
1st April 2022
We’re delighted to be launching our new Digital Pioneers programme, to support and drive forward digital health ideas and innovations in primary care. In this blog, Emma Richardson, Innovation Manager, reflects on some of the pioneering innovations in the NHS…
Healthy Happy Places – the threat of climate change on health and wellbeing
15th March 2022
Our Healthy Happy Places programme aims to create healthy, sustainable places, as well as the wider Public Health agenda around inequalities and prevention. Timothy Crawshaw, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute, writes his first blog on behalf of the…
Digital Health blog
14th March 2022
At this year’s Digital Health Rewired conference which takes place in London next week – two of our regional programmes are showing how they are working collaboratively to improve how data is analysed to benefit our population. Representatives from Axym…
Why knowing your market is so important
9th March 2022 - By Nick Harrison
On Monday 14th March, we will be hosting a webinar to explore horizon scanning, which is used as an overall term for analysing the future. It considers how emerging trends and developments might potentially affect current policy and practice. Nick…
Sustainable solutions to replace anaesthetic gases in the NHS
2nd March 2022
Recognising climate change’s threat to health, the NHS has become the world’s first healthcare system to commit to reaching carbon net zero by 2040. As a result, the Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN…
Welcome to Hannah Greaves – the newest member of the Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing project team
16th February 2022
We’re delighted to welcome our new Health and Wellbeing Lead, Hannah Greaves, who joined the AHSN NENC recently as part of the Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing project team. In her new role, Hannah will work closely with the team…
Why real world evaluation is an essential part of quality improvement in healthcare
14th February 2022
On Friday 18th February, we will be hosting a webinar to explore the crucial role that real world evaluation plays and how capturing and using the right evidence is key to spreading solutions in the NHS. Dr Sean Gill, Programme…
A greener NHS – Reducing the environmental impact of asthma inhalers
8th February 2022
Recognising climate change’s threat to health, the NHS has become the world’s first healthcare system to commit to reaching carbon net zero by 2040. To support this mission, the AHSN NENC is working with partners across a range of disciplines…
Digital Pioneers – Fostering collaboration, ideas exchange and innovation to deliver better healthcare for all
11th January 2022
Over the last two years, Covid-19 has accelerated digital health in ways that many of us could never have imagined. At Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC), we’re delighted to be introducing a…
Health Call at HETT 2021
18th October 2021
Following the Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) Show at the end of last month, we invited some of the regional innovators who we supported to exhibit at the event to share their experiences of attending one of the UK’s leading healthtech conferences. First up is Health Call……
World Heart Day – 29 September: CPR – every second counts
27th September 2021
In this follow up blog, National FH and Lipids Programme Lead Dr Joe Chidanyika picks up from his last post about knowing your ABCs, inspired by the Euro 2020 cardiac arrest incident when Christian Eriksen from Denmark collapsed during a live televised…