Yearly Archives: 2013

Paper Published :-)

Paper: Doyle C, Howe C, Woodcock T, Myron R, Phekoo K, McNicholas C, Saffer J & Bell D   (2013)   “Making change last: applying the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Sustainablity Model to healthcare Improvement”   Implementation Science   2013, 8:127 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-8-127

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Who’s behind the UK KMb Forum?

The UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 2014 will take place 3-4 February 2014. Development support is currently being provided by: CLAHRC Northwest London Institute for Knowledge Mobilization Bangor University Dundee University Eventage Imperial College IRISS Manchester Business School/ Greater Manchester CLAHRC

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Save the Date!

UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum – Making Connections Matter 3-4 February 2014 Hold the date!   Are you involved in knowledge mobilisation, research translation or getting evidence in to practice?  Do you study knowledge exchange, evidence transfer or innovation utilisation?  Are

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What does the internet think of power in healthcare?

In order to assess how known the concept of power in healthcare was, a search was conducted to see if the key terms “Power” and “Healthcare” turned up results to do with the power struggle between doctors and patients. Three

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Throwing the baby out with the Liverpool Care Pathway

This week’s proposal that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient be withdrawn due to variable and sometimes poor implementation is frankly shocking.  See the full report here. On that logic surely most of the standards and pathways that

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Lost in the Mist? IKMb Blog

  My first blog for the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization called ‘Lost in the Mist?: Focus for Knowledge Mobilisation’

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My NHS@65: ours to destroy?

I joined the NHS on a nice round number, in the year 2000.  At least that makes it easy to remember how long I’ve “been in”. That was the year of the NHS Plan.  “The NHS Plan outlines the vision of

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CLAHRC NWL bid news

  At 10:30 am on Wednesday 3rd July the CLAHRC for Northwest London panel stepped into the jaws of the NIHR interview room – would they come out with a favourable verdict and £10m to continue research into closing the

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NIHR KMbF: my first 6 months

  When I accepted an NIHR Knowledge Moblisation Fellowship I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into.  3 years (0.7WTE) to undertake a knowledge mobilisation research and implementation project seemed daunting.  I felt I’d been given permission to sail to America based

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#ckf13 – the second week

So, I’m now on my way home after almost two weeks in Canada, meeting and exploring ideas with a whole range of bright, interesting people who are passionate about what they do. This week I finished my impromptu time in

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