Videos

Category: Public Health


Have you returned your FIT kit?

Harry Redknapp has the following message to anyone who has not returned their FIT kit.
If your GP has asked you to complete a FIT (poo test) kit, please make sure you return it to them as soon as possible.
"If bowel cancer is diagnosed in the early stages, there's a much greater chance of successful treatment."
Find out more about how to do the test at www.cancermatterswessex.nhs.uk/fit-test/

Video produced by Copia Productions as part of the Wessex Cancer Innovation Programme, a joint initiative with the Wessex Cancer Alliance.
Find out more about the Wessex Cancer Innovation Programme at https://healthinnovationwessex.org.uk/programmes/53/wessex-cancer-innovation-programme


Webinar: Remote monitoring using pulse oximetry in care homes

This webinar explains the background to COVID Oximetry @home and COVID virtual wards, and what this means for care home staff supporting residents who are being monitored remotely using pulse oximetry. Aimed at registered managers, care workers in care homes, Primary Care Network clinical leads, and staff supporting remote monitoring, it covers why ‘silent hypoxia’ is important, how it works in practice, and the range of support and learning materials on offer.

Organised by the AHSN Network with NHS England and NHS Improvement, the webinar was held on 9 February 2021.


Patient data saves lives: The bigger picture

Today, in the age of digital communication and high-tech research, sharing data is more important than ever before. When the NHS was founded in 1948 things were quite different. Our medical records lived in dusty drawers, alone and unloved, with its life-saving potential untapped. Find out how patient data makes a difference at patientdata.org.uk


Explaining Primary Care Demonstrator sites

In this video, we introduce the Wessex Primary Care Demonstrator Site programme, which focuses on conducting pragmatic, reasonably rapid (within a year) yet robust trials of packages of innovations that offer the opportunity to fundamentally improve outcomes and efficiency of clinical services.

We hear from our Associate Director of Primary Care, Rachel Dominey; Hampshire GP Dr Anthony Leung; and the CEO of Southampton-based healthcare innovation company, xim, Laurence Pearce.


Nutritional Care Wessex: 2018 Conference Highlights

Wessex AHSN's Nutritional Care conference on 06 March 2018 focused on making undernutrition in older people everyone's responsibility and celebrated the success of the Programme. This video shows the conference highlights


Nutritional Care Wessex: New tools to raise awareness of undernutrition - Annemarie Aburrow and Heather Eardley

Wessex AHSN's Nutritional Care conference on 06 March 2018 focused on making undernutrition in older people everyone's responsibility and celebrated the success of the Programme. In this video, Annemarie Aburrow (Nutrition in Older People Programme Dietitian) and Heather Eardley (from the Patients Association) present on the development of the Nutrition Wheel and the Patients Association Nutrition Checklist, simple new tools to facilitate the identification of undernutrition and provide signposting / advice.