Understand and manage implementation of a new innovation for improvement
A good place to start is to assess your organisational readiness for innovation and improvement. The QUASER guide is a research-based tool that helps health and care providers reflect on their readiness for change so that they can being to implement organisational improvement programmes, you can find a link to the guide.
This innovation staff survey tool allows you to assess the skills and knowledge of the people in your organisation in relation to innovation, you can find the survey.
The process of managing change in the NHS can be complex, however there are tools to guide you through the process, Isle & Sutherland provide a useful review of various approaches and tools in this document.
- The NHS Change Model offers a guide to successful change management.
- There is an eight step model for managing change.
- The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement provide excellent project management guides that help you through the process of implementing a project.
- Evaluation of Innovation in Healthcare provides an outline of the key areas of governance and project management relating to the successful delivery of innovation evaluation projects in the NHS and other healthcare provider organisations.
