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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:05:16 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] MEDSOCNEWS is the electronic companion to Medical Sociology News - published 3 times a year by the Medical Sociology Group of the BSA. Please subscribe to this publication - details below +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SEMINAR 13 APRIL, 2005 Womens Health and Society Seminar Series TITLE: From Knowledge to Action? The diffusion of innovations into practice, by Professor Louise Fitzgerald, Dept. of Human Rewsource Management, de Montfort University. Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. This presentation describes why it is nevertheless so notoriously difficult to implement research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organisational structures. The presentation draws on an outstandingly large body of evidence acquired in the course of nearly 50 in-depth case-studies of attempts to introduce evidence-based practice in the UK NHS over more than a decade. Using qualitative methods to study hospital and primary care settings, these data shed light on why some of these attempts succeeded where others faltered. But by opening up the intricacies and complexities of change in the NHS, they reveal the limitations of the simplistic approaches to implementing research or introducing evidence-based health care. The seminar will provide an overview of the key findings, but will feature specifically a comparison between a case based on maternity services and a comparator case. This will enable the members of the audience to explore in more depth how the findings apply to maternity services. The lessons learned about knowledge utilisation in health services can be applied wherever there is a professional tradition working within a politically sensitive blend of public service, managerial accountability and technical expertise. This presentation is based on the data from : "From Knowledge to Action? Evidence Based Health Care in Context", Sue Dopson & Louise Fitzgerald (ed.s) Oxford University Press, forthcoming, May 2005 contact [log in to unmask] Women' s and Family Health Research Group, King's College, London All seminars are open to the public and no booking is required All seminars will be held in the Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, King's College, London Travel details and map here http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/maa/waterloo.html Contact. [log in to unmask] Tel. 0207 848 3023 Dr Jane Sandall Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health Women & Family Health Research Group, Health and Social Care Research Division King's College, Waterloo Bridge Wing, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH Tel: 020 7848 3605 Fax: 020 7848 3764 e-mail:[log in to unmask] http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html To subscribe to the paper version of Medical Sociology News - published 3 times a year by the Medical Sociology Group of the BSA please email Maureen Porter at: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************