A major part of implementation in CLAHRC CP is about building capacity to plan and implement evidence-based changes to care pathways for people with mental health needs.
In CLAHRC CP, much of the activity in the themes is project focused, but our overall aim is to improve services and care pathways beyond project timescales, and embed the capacity and capabilities in staff and organisations to continue improving services.
The CLAHRC CP seeks to embed appropriate implementation tools, concepts and models within the research. We have a unique, multi-disciplinary approach to implementation which brings perspectives from business (Judge Business School), public health (Institute of Public Health) and engineering design (Engineering Design Centre).The collaboration is very much about applied research. It is testing new ways of working in specific clinical areas to see if they are effective and appropriate for everyday use in the health service.
Learn more about the way Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, Engineering Design Centre, and Institute of Public Health work with the clinical themes:
Service Design and Innovation implementation theme
Judge Business School implementation theme
CLAHRC CP Knowledge Implementation Model
Knowledge exchange within mental health care pathways depends on creating mechanisms and processes to ensure that clinicians and social care practitioners can engage with research. Stakeholders play an active role in developing research and transforming services, based on evidence.
The CLAHRC CP implementation model, builds on a number of models from the literature, specifically Hanney’s model of research utilisation. Hanney,et al.‘The Place of Policy-Making in the Stages of Assessment of Research Utilisation and Final Outcomes’, 2003. We believe that the educational cluster within our CLAHRC such as the Fellows programme, and the HIEC, feeds into the knowledge reservoir that is the ‘spine’ of the CLAHRC CP activity.
Also key to the CLAHRC CP Dissemination and Implementation strategy is QIPP, and the CLAHRC CP Dissemination and Implementation model demonstrates that each of the CLAHRC CP priority projects will be aligned to the national priorities of ‘quality, innovation, productivity and prevention’.
