In this audio-slideshow (hence tongue in cheek ‘reading’) Mary Dixon-Woods provides an overview of quality and safety issues and literature using Hood’s Cypbernetic Model as a basis for a regulatory system in healthcare… 30 mins usefully spent via the Health…
Had a brilliant day today with the new group of CLAHRC NWL fellows. There are people who class as service users (or whatever your preferred term is) as well as GPs, a midwife, managers, a physio and others – a…
Great news and congratulations to Camilla and Janine and the team who’ve worked so hard on this project. Paper: Sanger, C., Hayward, J., Patel, G., Phekoo, K., Poots, A., Howe, C., Jones, O.B., Green, J. (in press) “Acceptability and necessity…
Crilly et al chose this as the most interesting paper in this section… Interesting paper – methodological debate (p.68) Abstract from Tranfield, Denyer & Smart (2003) Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Management Knowledge by Means of Systematic Review Abstract:…
(Health warning: this is from a report published in 2010 and citation counts may have changed) Most cited paper – contribution to theory (p.67) Abstract from Haridimon Tsoukas, E. Vladimirou (2001) Abstract: Organizational knowledge is much talked about but little…
How we think about knowledge affects how we study things and how we act. And the world around us is changing. We need to understand how to change with it… “…increasing digitization of social and economic life, the widespread use…
Knowledge is both resource and a source of value within employees in an organisation. Crilly et al identify 9 ways of considering the title question, but one of the most interesting things for me is the idea of needing to…
Great news: My little essay called ‘Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Is it mustard or ketchup?’ has been accepted into the ‘worth a second look’ section of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. Publication date tbc Happy fellow…
Looking forward to finally catching up with some coverage on the long awaited and much anticipated Francis report, after a day of back to back meetings I grabbed an Evening Standard yesterday on my commute home from London to North Wales.…
I often hear that healthcare staff can’t get involved in improvement – or can’t get other people involved in improvement – because of meetings. If the person I’m speaking to is the one running the meetings then it’s the other…
