Communications in health care improvement - a toolkit

This toolkit is for health care professionals working in improvement who want to understand and use communications to better plan, implement and spread their work.

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Using communications approaches to spread improvement

"A practical guide to help you effectively communicate and spread your improvement work."

Using communications approaches to spread improvement
S Randall
Health Foundation
March 2015

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Call for applicants: NHS Innovation Accelerator

"The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) programme invites leading healthcare pioneers from around the world to bring their tried and tested innovations to the NHS. The programme aims to select a broad range of innovations – products, processes and technologies – to be more rapidly developed and scaled across the health service, to improve patient care, and reduce costs."

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Advancing the science and practice of scale-up and spread in health

"Conference attendees identified and prioritized five recommendations (and corresponding sub-recommendations) for advancing scale-up and spread in health: increase awareness, facilitate information exchange, develop new methods, apply new approaches for evaluation, and expand capacity."

A stakeholder-driven agenda for advancing the science and practice of scale-up and spread in health
WE Norton, CJ McCannon, MW Schall, BS Mittman
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:118

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Sharing commissioning experiences

“Right Care enables sharing of good practice by compiling local examples of commissioning work, which demonstrate the philosophy behind Right Care or showcases the tools available through the programme.”

Sharing commissioning experiences: The Right Care Casebook Series: Volume 2
NHS Right Care
March 2012

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A qualitative study of stakeholder views of the conditions for and outcomes of successful clinical networks

"This study provides new knowledge on the conditions needed to establish successful clinical networks and on desirable outcomes arising from network projects and initiatives that are considered to be valuable by those working in or associated with clinical networks."

A qualitative study of stakeholder views of the conditions for and outcomes of successful clinical networks
E McInnes, S Middleton, G Gardner, M Haines, M Haertsch, CL Paul, P Castaldi
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:49

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