Blogs

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…

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…

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…

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…

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……

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…

Dave Belshaw, writes his first blog since taking up the role of Digital Transformation Director late last year in which he offers an insight into what the last nine months has looked like for him and what the future holds…

As the Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) prepares to bid farewell to Mark Taylor, our Innovation Manager, Mark has spent some time reflecting on the evolving innovation landscape across the region and the supporting role he has played…

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Yu (Maggie) Fu to the Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) team. Yu has been appointed as a Senior Research Associate – a joint position with both the AHSN and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) NENC. We caught up with Yu to find…