September 2016

30 September 2016

A new collaborative, made up of the UK’s leading healthcare organisations including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), has set out plans that will help get patients more involved in decisions about their care. Called the ‘Shared Decision Making Collaborative’, the group of organisations will work together to ensure shared decisions about care become a reality in everyday clinical practice.

Read "Patients should be more involved in decisions about their care, says NICE"

29 September 2016

Due to promotion, CLAHRC West Midlands is seeking a new Programme Officer. The position is a really great opportunity to be engaged in central CLAHRC activities and offers a springboard for other opportunities that may arise across the patch. The closing date is 7 October and interviews will be held on 19 October.

Read "CLAHRC West Midlands seeks new Programme Officer"

23 September 2016

NHS England launched Improving Outcomes through Personalised Medicine at NHS Expo earlier this month. It sets out what is meant by personalised medicine, now and in the future, and the approach that NHS England will take, working with partners, so that we can embrace new approaches, while ensuring that ethical, equality and economic implications are fully understood and addressed. These developments are being led within NHS England by Professor Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer for England.

Read "Improving Outcomes through Personalised Medicine"

22 September 2016

The SBRI Healthcare autumn funding competition opened for applications on 26 September. Entrepreneurs are invited to apply for up to £1 millon investment to develop and commercialise innovations with a focus on developing general practice of the future. Innovations are sought to address three main challenge areas in general practice: workload and demand management, diagnostics and earlier triage and self-care.

Read "Funding for innovations to help transform general practice of the future"

22 September 2016

WMAHSN is offering a number of unique sponsorship opportunities for its annual Economic Summit, now in its third successful year. Held on 8 December 2016 at the Park Inn by Radisson in Telford, Shropshire, with delegate numbers expected to be around 200, our exciting and value for money sponsorship packages offer maximum exposure of your organisation and your brand to our high-calibre delegates from across the NHS, local authority and private sector healthcare landscape.

Read "Opportunities to sponsor our Economic Summit 2016"

22 September 2016

The Masters in Genomic Medicine has proved particularly popular and the Genomics Education Programme (GEP) has now filled the allocation of funded places for this autumn for the Masters programme, Postgraduate Diplomas and Certificates. Funded places are still available to take individual modules as CPPD.

Read "Record numbers secure funded places for Genomics Masters Courses "

21 September 2016

WMAHSN would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who took part in our stakeholder survey during August and September. The survey, conducted by NHS England in partnership with YouGov, is now closed. With more than 170 people across the West Midlands providing their feedback on working with us and the 14 other Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), we are delighted with the response to this second annual survey.

Read "AHSN stakeholder survey 2016 now closed"

20 September 2016

The AHSN Network will be attending the Pharmacy Show in Birmingham this Sunday (25) and Monday (26 September), showcasing the work the AHSNs are undertaking on medicines optimisation. The show is one of the largest of its kind, and the Network has a stand, where delegates will be able to find out more about the AHSNs and the medicines optimisation work being undertaken around the country, as well as discussing the overall impact the AHSNs are having.

Read "AHSN Network goes to the Pharmacy Show"

15 September 2016

The West Midlands Health Informatics Network (WIN) will be holding its third annual conference on 24 January 2017 at the University of Warwick, with keynote presentations from NHS Digital and IBM. WIN is inviting individuals and organisations to present either a 20-minute session, a 60-minute panel or a poster, outlining relevant products, services or research.

Read "Call for conference participation - digital health, care and wellbeing"

15 September 2016

Innovate UK is to invest up to £15 million in innovation projects addressing technical or commercial challenges relevant to the health and life sciences sector that will lead to increased UK SME competitiveness, growth and productivity. The aim of this competition is to stimulate and broaden business innovation in health and life sciences, leading to an increase in productivity.

Read "Register now for £15m Health and Life Sciences competition"

13 September 2016

The Home Office’s Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) is investing up to £1.5 million in innovative projects to prevent radicalisation and terrorism. In support of HM Government’s Prevent Strategy, the aim of this competition is to find innovative ways to prevent vulnerable people from becoming radicalised to support or carry out terrorism

Read "Innovation Fund for PREVENT 2016"

12 September 2016

Developed with input from all 15 AHSNs, the AHSN Atlas of Solutions is a new online tool for sharing examples of proven innovation that are making a positive difference both to people’s lives, and NHS efficiency. Access the new tool at atlas.ahsnnetwork.com.

Read "AHSN Atlas of Solutions in Healthcare launched"

12 September 2016

Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) each year takes steps towards setting the basis for urban innovation, defining the challenges to change the world and make our cities better places to live, searching for smart solutions and tools to design innovative and sustainable cities. The Call for Solutions invites entrepreneurs, research centres, startups and SMEs to submit their innovative and advanced solutions to the challenges that our cities currently face.

Read "Show the world your Smart City project! Participate in the Call for Solutions 2016"