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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wow. What a week! And to think: when I left London I had no plans beyond attending the Forum… The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum this week brought together 142 knowledge mobilisation professionals from 12 nations to expand the growing global…
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…
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…
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…
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…
