Processes and responsibilities for knowledge transfer and mobilisation in health services organisations in Wales

Barnes, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6447-6647, Bullock, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-2186 and Warren, Wendy 2018. Processes and responsibilities for knowledge transfer and mobilisation in health services organisations in Wales. McDermott, Aoife, Kitchener, Martin and Exworthy, Mark, eds. Managing Improvement in Healthcare: Attaining, Sustaining and Spreading Quality, Organizational Behaviour in Health Care, Springer, pp. 183-200. (10.1007/978-3-319-62235-4_11)

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Abstract

Transferring and mobilising knowledge from research into healthcare delivery is an enduring international challenge. Our aim was to explore how knowledge sources were used to advance healthcare practice. We analysed data from 28 interviews with senior representatives from Health Boards and an Academic Health Science Partnership in Wales. Although all recognised the need to keep up to date with research evidence, knowledge mobilisation activities were largely individually-driven, rather than embedded within organisations. Lack of time, limited management support, and coordination-failure between different professions (within/outside the organisation) hindered knowledge mobilisation. Enablers included a supportive infrastructure, good leadership and management at all levels. Alongside embedding knowledge mobilisation as an intrinsic part of everyone’s role, enhancing the knowledge broker role of identified individuals was recommended to provide visibility and structure.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE) Healthcare Sciences Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Springer
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107396

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