20 November 2015
Getting the results of research implemented into routine healthcare is often a challenge.
The missing link between the development and implementation of evidence into practice is called the ‘second translational gap’ and is particularly noticeable in primary care.
A recent study including Professors Anne Kennedy and Anne Rogers from CLAHRC Wessex worked with Hazel Everitt Associate Professor in General Practice Primary Care and Population Sciences looked at identifying, summarising and pulling together all the currently available evidence around this issue.
They carried out a review to:
(1) Explore the barriers and promoters for using research evidence or complex interventions,
and
(2) Assess effective strategies to promote the use of complex interventions in primary care.
Professor Anne Kennedy met with the National Institute for Health Research and Evaluation. Trials and Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) in Southampton to present her and her colleagues findings:
"The discussion showed us that the NIHR research commissioning organisations are
very interested in improving implementation and ways to ensure the research
they fund has a real impact in the NHS. Our future focus is likely to be on linking
evidence based research more directly to CLAHRCs for implementation and making
sure that those applying for research funding have well thought out plans for
implementation."
Want to know more about the NIHR School of Primary Care, NETSCC or see the full paper? Click on the links.
Building capacity for academic writing.. by Professor Anne Rogers
‘publication tsunami that is now an exponential wave’. The effects of this tsunami are well rehearsed: the enormous pressure on peer review processes; reduction in the time researchers have to read individual outputs; and, perhaps most commented on, the growth of a commercial market of fee-for-publication-based journals which lack the usual bulwarks of scientific credibility read blog >We would be pleased to hear from you if you are interested in becoming involved in our research and implementation.
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