Mapping the Healthcare Improvement Research Needs of Scottish Healthcare Managers SHCMs: Developing

1
Mapping the Healthcare Improvement Research Needs
of Scottish Healthcare Managers (SHCMs
Developing a Research Agenda
2
CSO Small Grants Project

• Consortium bid of Scottish Universities
• Edinburgh
• Aberdeen
• Glasgow
• St. Andrews / Social Dimensions of Health
  Institute
• 12 months project
• PIs Lorna McKee, Moira Fishbacher Smith, Huw
  Davies, Jill Schofield, a Research Assistant

3
Research Aims

• 1.There is a need to elicit the research needs of
  practising managers vis a vis what they want to
  know / get access to, in respect of healthcare
  management and health organisation research.
• 2.A further need for these requirements to be
  communicated and shared with the HEIs in Scotland
  and a modus operandi established about the
  concomitant knowledge mobilisation
• 3. There is uncertainty about the research
  capacity and capabilities of SHCMs and their
  institutions

4
Indicative Research Questions

• What prompts HCMs to seek information from
  research based sources ? What timescales pertain
  ? Is their information seeking behaviour
  strategic or operational
• What contingent factors pertain to the above ?
• How do HCMs connect with each other to access the
  policy / management / OR research communities ?

5

• How are their research needs communicated to the
  HEIs and other research bodies.
• What are the institutional barriers to such
  communication ?
• Are there any regional variations to these
  patterns ?
• What is the level of research competence and
  capacity at the service delivery level ?

6
Conceptual Frameworks and Theoretical Underpinning

• Research Utilization and knowledge mobilization (
  meta analysis Mittan et al, 2007)
• The Information seeking behaviour of managers
  (Lomas, 2007 Lavis, 2003) and every day life
  information seeking ( Godbold, 2006)
• Health Improvement Science. ( Berwick and Nolan,
  1998) co-production element between researchers
  and practitioners.

7
Methods

• Substantive questions
• Web based survey
• Interviews
• Process questions plan to use two specific
  reflective techniques
• Self completed diaries
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Workshops

8
Issues and Challenges

• Cohort selection
• Cohort commitment to diary completion maybe use
  audio diaries the diary room
• Making inroads to the HEIs when actual system is
  so fragmented

9
Outputs

• To produce a research agenda concerning the
  management and organisation of Scottish
  healthcare
• To work together with CSO ( and other funding
  bodies) to use the results to inform future
  research specifications and agree a modus
  operandi for collaboration
• To produce a framework for good practice for
  collaboration between HEIs and HCMs
• To produce an audit of the research capacity /
  capabilities of SHCMs and their institutions.