The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Scholarships are one-year opportunities to find out about the inner workings of NICE and undertake a supported improvement project, related to NICE guidance, within a local organisation. NICE Scholars are supported in their project via a series of workshops, access to a very experienced mentor and contact with the expert teams at NICE.
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NHS England and the AHSN Network have today published the results of the first stakeholder survey to measure the current perception of AHSNs across England; with the majority of respondents (73%) saying they would recommend working with AHSNs. 1,200 people from across health and social care, patient groups, academia, industry and the charity sector took part in the survey to share their views on how the AHSNs are delivering on increasing the adoption and diffusion of innovation and research, and spreading best practice across the NHS.
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Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) are to have a key role in aiding the NHS to access transformative health technology, according to the Accelerated Access Review (AAR). This review of innovative medicines and medical technologies, supported by the Wellcome Trust, has explored the question of accelerated access through four workstreams spanning the development pathway, and a fifth focusing on patient engagement in all parts of the pathway. Each workstream has looked across issues concerning drugs, devices, diagnostics and digital health products.
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WMAHSN stakeholders are invited to take part in a study, mapping new contacts established at or through AHSNs to support regional economic development and wealth creation. The research team is welcoming AHSN partners, members and other stakeholders to take part in their Time 2 survey. The data will be used to investigate how wealth and health networks intersect, detect knowledge clusters and gaps, capture knowledge flows within and across AHSN regions and identify any early implementation and wealth creation outcomes emerging from these exchanges.
Horizon 2020 is the EU’s overarching, multidisciplinary research and innovation funding programme that will run from 2014 to 2020. The societal challenges addressed by the programme cover seven key themes, including health, demographic change and wellbeing. There is scope for greater NHS involvement and access to these funds, and the new approach introduced in the programme will facilitate NHS participation.
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11 companies receive up to £1 million further funding in latest round of NHS England initiative.
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More than 180 delegates from across the West Midlands’ healthcare, industry and academic organisations flocked to Birmingham yesterday (13 October) for an annual economic summit, which examined the links between health and wealth and the implications for the region. The West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) hosted their second Health and Wealth Economic Summit, which saw healthcare industry, NHS, academic and patient representatives pack into the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Edgbaston to hear how driving co-operation and productivity in healthcare can boost economic productivity, as well as increasing the employability of people across the region.
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Group applications are now open for Health Education West Midlands' Systems Leadership Programme.
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A cross Staffordshire and Shropshire group, whose submission highlighted the benefits of working with the WMAHSN, is just one of a number of local organisations who have been shortlisted for healthcare's most prestigious awards. Other NHS trusts, third sector organisations and companies in the West Midlands were also shortlisted.
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NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced radical new options for the future of local hospitals across the NHS. The new models being developed by 13 new hospital Vanguards represent the next stage of implementing the NHS Five Year Forward View. The new group of NHS Vanguards involve some of the best-known and best-run trusts in England, including in Birmingham and Solihull.