Problem definition and diagnostics 

Are you seeking to understand and target your resources at the right patients and people at the right time?

We have an extensive range of expertise spanning years in project planning and evidence gathering, including:

• Theory of Change/Logic Modelling
• Evidence informed practice and service design
• Outcome and Impact evaluation and measurement
• Rapid cycle learning

We also undertake population health analysis. This provides insights into your service users, pathways and processes, which supports productive change management.

Quality improvement and culture change

Are you seeking to improve the quality, experience, and outcomes of care for patients and people in the South West?  

We are passionate about Quality Improvement (QI) as a proven approach to enable adept health and care teams to build culture and capability. We support colleagues across Cornwall, Devon and Somerset in identifying and testing change ideas to deliver measurable improvements for service users and staff. 

The South West AHSN offers world-class QI and culture training, coaching, and ongoing support, to enable you to build the required conditions, knowledge, and skills to make continuous improvements within your system. 

Spread Academy

Would you like world-leading immersive training designed to practically support you to spread and scale your innovation? 

Spread Academy is where enthusiastic, talented people with exciting launch-ready projects accelerate their learning to rapidly spread and scale life-changing innovation. 

Spread Academy is run by the South West AHSN in collaboration with the Billions Institute, the renowned US-based social change agency which is a global leader in large-scale change. 

We support individuals and teams with vital projects, innovations and ideas that could significantly improve the health and wellbeing of patients and communities.

Leadership training

Are you a leader looking to accelerate your team’s effectiveness with a step change?  

Our facilitation and training supports those pursuing health and care workforce initiatives to maximise the effectiveness of teams in primary and secondary care settings.  

We provide ground-breaking Leadership Development services designed to maximise your team’s impact on the needs of patients and people. 

• Organisational development. Develop a shared vision, purposeful ways of working and improve workforce deployment. 
• Team development. Improve staff recruitment, retention, and collective working to achieve more sustainable working. 
• Individual leadership development. Enable team leaders and managers to become effective change agents. 

Systems design

Do you have a need to improve systems to deliver long lasting continuous improvement and adoption of innovative practice?  

The South West AHSN are experienced in embedding learning to enhance innovation skills and amplify change capability across pathways and complex systems.  

We support all parts of Integrated Care Systems, enabling them to drive high-impact system change within and across care pathways. 

Need urgent change? Our facilitated rapid improvement workshops achieve bespoke quality improvement and large-scale change through proven tools and techniques.