Beyond Knowledge Transfer – implementing and operationalising ‘what we know’ for health care practice and health service organisations

• When: 16 November 2011
• Times: 10am-4.20pm
• Where: Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

This joint HSRN and Society for the Study of Organising for Healthcare (SHOC) event aims to tackle the question of how to take academic concepts, theory and research evidence to the front line of health care delivery. Delegates will hear from high profile thinkers on knowledge transfer, knowledge brokers, and NHS professionals on how to over-come the barriers to knowledge transfer.

Questions/issues to be asked include:

• How is knowledge spread? Does evidence transfer involve replication and copying or adaptation and customization?
• Can we learn from other sectors (e.g. ‘beacon’ sites)? Is the transfer of ideas between sectors (e.g. health to social care) different from spreading best practice within a single  organization?
• What roles are effective in applying knowledge to practice and policy? (e.g. how good are knowledge brokers?)
• How portable is our research? What can we take from our empirical cases and evaluations directly to policy and practice?
• The role of theory and prediction: why are we scared to jump the gap?

View the draft programme.

Speakers include

• Professor Louise Fitzgerald, Visiting Professor, Manchester Business School and Emeritus Professor, De Montfort University, Leicester
• Dr Christopher Potter, Public Health Director, Powys Teaching Health Board
• Professor Cathy Pope, Reader in Health Services Research, University of Southampton
• Professor Graeme Currie, Graeme Currie Professor of Public Services Management, Head of International Governance and Public Management
• Professor Martin Kitchener, Associate Dean, Engagement and Director, Cardiff Health Organisation and Policy Studies (CHOPS), Cardiff Business School

Booking your place

Please email HSRN@nhsconfed.org to book your place. This event is free for HSRN and NHS Confederation members and there is a £60 charge (plus VAT) for others.

To view current members please see the HSRN member list.

Cancellations

Please note that any paid bookings cancelled less than seven days before the event will be charged at the full amount. Places are transferable if someone is able to attend in your place in this situation.