Blogs

Becky Hanna, our Innovation Manager and chair of the Innovation Forum, writes her first blog following the most recent Innovation Forum event. Find out more about the Innovation Forum and how we help to develop innovation in the NHS.  …

As we celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, our Chief Executive, Nicola Hutchinson, reflects on the medical breakthroughs and innovations throughout the Queen’s reign.

As part of our Digital Pioneers programme to drive digital innovation in primary care, we’ve launched a new education programme inviting staff across general practice, pharmacy, optometry and dentistry to become Digital Champions within their organisation. Digital Champions is a…

As part of MHAW, we’re shining a spotlight on amazing occupational health and wellbeing staff. Here, we caught up with Jodie Kendall from South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re shining a spotlight on amazing occupational health & wellbeing staff. Here, we caught up with Jill McGee from South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…