Four projects selected to be part of programme on bridging the gap between research and actionable learning

The programme aims to help experienced research teams bridge the gap between academic research findings and actionable information for people practising in the field.

Each of the teams has previously received funding from the Health Foundation. This programme will enable them to use their innovative and creative ideas and translate their findings from completed studies in improvement research, or more broadly in health services research, into practical tools for practitioners in health services or health policy.  

Each team will receive up to £50,000 for the development of tools and resources to support the implementation of findings into practice, and to develop innovative ways to promote their findings to those who influence, plan and deliver health and care services.

The approaches that the projects may use include: training packs, video, online tools, smartphone apps and multimedia campaigns.

Each project will be funded for between 12 and 14 months.

The projects are:

• Facilitating end user involvement and uptake of PathSimR
  NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
  A project to promote and embed the use of PathSimR, an open source tool designed to model patient flow and capacity, using case studies to showcase the tool’s functionality.
• Practitioner Led Evidence at Bromley by Bow
  Bromley by Bow Centre
  A project to embed evidence and learning from research into the Bromley by Bow model, using an outcomes framework and the development of a suite of evaluation and analytical tools.
• Translating research findings into actionable insights for service staff, system leaders and local policy makers
  Care City
  A project aimed at ensuring lessons learned from research using linked datasets are translated for policy makers, to increase their understanding of local service users, and so improve decision making.
• Improving the success of complex technology-supported change: digitisation and empirical testing of the NASSS-CAT tools
  University of Oxford
  A project that will involve developing and piloting a set of practical electronic tools to support the implementation of digital health projects, such as virtual consultations.

Contact at the Health Foundation

Navdeep Sidhu
Marketing and Communications Manager
020 7257 8067
navdeep.sidhu@health.org.uk