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Paper Submitted!

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

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Paper Published :)

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

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Paper accepted :-)

Good news, ‘Improving Engagement in a Quality Collaborative’ by C Howe & D Bell, based on work done in the NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London has been accepted by the British Journal of Healthcare Management, publication date tbc.  This is a

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Paper Accepted: IAPT

Improving patient and project outcomes using inter-organisational innovation, collaboration and co-design Liz Evans, Stuart A. Green, Cathy Howe, Kiran Sharma, Fatima Marinho, Derek Bell, Paul Thomas accepted into March 2014 edition of the London Journal of Primary Care

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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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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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Writing: Paper published! JHSRP

Worth a second look in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. Published online ahead of print 25 April 2013 Quality improvement in health care: Is it mustard or ketchup? by Cathy Howe Introduction In this article, Malcolm Gladwell

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Writing: Paper published!

Short Report published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on a project undertaken in collaboration with the NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London Acceptability and necessity of HIV and other blood-borne virus testing in a psychiatric setting Camilla Sanger, Janine Hayward, Gira Patel, Karen

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Writing: Abstract accepted :-)

Abstracts accepted for oral presentation at the Canadian Knowledge Mobiliszation Forum in June 2013 “Applying a quality improvement approach to mobilising knowledge in COPD: Developing and implementing a care bundle” C Howe, C Doyle, L Lennox, J Reed, D Bell

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Writing: Accepted paper

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

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