After a period of despondency and almost (but not quite) losing the will to live with seeing any hope of widespread improvement in the the quality and safety of NHS services, I’ve decided to make a stand, literally. I’ve decided to put…
After a period of despondency and almost (but not quite) losing the will to live with seeing any hope of widespread improvement in the the quality and safety of NHS services, I’ve decided to make a stand, literally. I’ve decided to put…
The UK KMb Forum 2016 is now accepting contribution proposals. DEADLINE 5pm 29 March 2016. “I met more people and made more useful connections at the Forum than at any other conference I’ve been to this year” Would you like to…
At the HSRN Symposium last week (#HSRN15) I got so wrapped up in a dozen different questions boiling inside me, I ended up asking a long rambling and completely unintelligible question to the final panel discussion. What did I really…
After only 3+ years of work I’m delighted that the paper describing our conceptual framework for quality improvement and implementing research into practice has finally been submitted this week. The framework is based on combined learning from literature and the…
I was delighted (and rather humbled) to be awarded the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization President’s Award for Innovation at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2015 in Montreal last week. Quite an honour, especially as this is a new award and…
Now it’s a couple of weeks since the UK KMb Forum 2015 at the RCPE in Edinburgh. And what a fab time it was too! (even if I do say so myself) The motivation for establishing the forum had a…
It’s just one month to go until the Second Annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum, taking place on 13-14 April 2015 at the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh. And I have to say, I’m getting quite tingly… the programme looks fab. …
Improving engagement in a quality collaborative Cathy Howe & Derek Bell National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Northwest London DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2014.20.11.528 Published Online: November 12, 2014 British Journal of…
Well there’s some interesting things going on at the moment… The Institute for Knowledge Mobilization is having a rethink and a refresh. Did it need one? Maybe, maybe not. First up is the: Leaders Roundtable, 8-9 January 2015, Vancouver From…
This week FellowsConnect brought together 150 fellows, ex-fellows, fellowships organisers and fellowship funders to talk all things Fellow-related. Last session of the day was ‘Open Space-lite’ where anyone could volunteer to run a discussion group. I offered people the opportunity to…
