Knowledge agents:

Developing and sustaining innovation and improvement fellowships

Professor Bill Lucas

Co-Lead, Health Foundation

Improvement Science Programme

 

Liz Maddocks-Brown

Capability and Faculty Development Manager

NHS Improving Quality

and colleagues…

fellowshipnoun

1. friendly association, especially with people who share one’s interests2. a group of people meeting to pursue a shared interest or aim3. a guild or corporation4. the status of a fellow of a college or society

Dimensions

IHI - Health

Foundation

Quality

Improvement

Fellows

CLAHRC

NWL

Scottish Patient

Safety Fellows

Health

Foundation

GenQ

Darzi Clinical

fellows

NIHR Knowledge

mobilisation

Health Foundation

IS PhDs

Health Foundation IS

Fellows

Project based

Seniority Mid career 40! Variable Mid career Mid career Early clinical career Varied Varied Mid - senior

Duration 12 months 12 months 10 months 2 years part time   2 years 3 years 3 years

Qualification

Protected time 1 day / week 0.5 WTE

Background Clinical

 

Clinical

managers

Patients

Clinical

 

Multi disc. Clinical mostly

medical

Clinical or research Any Multi disc.

Focus QI methods and

application in

practice

 

Hybrid

 

Hybrid

 

QI methods and

application in

practice

 

  Hybrid

 

Research on a

specific study

question

Leadership development +

research in IS theory,

methods and

implementation

Cross disciplinary

Leadership

Self directed     Sort of

Learning Bespoke Residentials with IS

theory practice. Int.

Forum. Study tour

Structured input

and Learning

sets

Structured input Bespoke As provided for

PhDs students by

host university

Action Learning,

leadership development,

individual coaching

Mentoring ?

Remain linked in

with org

 

Numbers to date 35

4 per year

50 ish

13 per year

 

90+

16 per cohort 6th

cohort

18 pa

x 4

= 72

41 fellows in Y 1

Now in 5th cohort

10

5 per year

21 9

4-5 per year

Practice

Research

Structured

Unstructured

National

Local

Low cost

High cost

Early career

Senior

A life in the day of….

Chris BurtonSue Mann Cathy Howe

KNOWLEDGE MOBILISATION FELLOWSHIPS“Through innovative practice and systematic study of that practice KMR Fellows should advance knowledge and understanding about research use, influence and impact.”

NHSPractitionersLeadership skillsDoing

HEIAcademicsMethodologiesKnowing

10 fellows in 2 rounds2013/14

NHS – Sexual and Reproductive

health Procurement of services in new landscape, what

does good look like?

Local Authority and voluntary

sectorNew

collaborative arrangements

Sexual and Reproductive Health ServicesCamden and

Islington

Southwark and Lambeth

Small Group Discussion

Which aspects of fellowship strike you as likely to develop and sustain innovation?

How might your organisation be interested?

Next Steps…and introducing Nicki McNaney

Why are we here?Everyone, everywhere, every time

DOES NOT currently experience the safest and highest quality healthcare

AND

• Financial challenges• Quality outcomes and experience is the new focus• Rising expectations• Increasing complex health needs

We need to do more, for less... and better

Our approach

Large scale Improveme

nt programmes

Capacity and

capability

Horizons

Healthcare systemstaff and patients

Connections

NH

S IQ Corporate function

Our Team MissionTeam Improvement Capability Building

“To embed improvement and change expertise through science, knowledge and skills, so that improving quality and outcomes can be

everyone’s business, in an ever changing environment.”

How do we work?

• Support all of NHS Improving Quality’s work to be successful, by providing evidence-based guidance, frameworks, tools and specialist advice

• Also have system-wide large scale programmes

Our business model - small core national team • Only do what a national body should do• Leveraging and aligning work across the system for maximum benefit: NHS LA, HEE ,

NIHR, Universities UK, THF• Commissioning from a range of delivery partners and working with strategic investment

partners• Use programme funding to bring in time limited capacity aligned to the business plan

Next steps with Fellowships

Scope

Design

Test Launch and spread capacity aligned to the business plan

An Invitation to Join Us

bill.lucas@winchester.ac.uk liz.maddocks-brown@nhsiq.nhs.uk