Scaling and Sustaining Innovation in Healthcare Systems

Scaling and Sustaining Innovation in Healthcare Systems explores how healthcare innovations in complex systems can be used, scaled and sustained. Through the example of adopting the Brazilian Community Health and Wellbeing Worker role into the English NHS over the past two decades, it provides insightful, practical guidance so that future innovations can be successfully adopted. The Brazilian Community Health and Wellbeing Worker role has had a far-reaching impact across the health and social care services in Brazil and, more recently, also in the UK. By showcasing what worked and didn’t work in its implementation, the book provides a unique, real-world application of implementation science in a complex healthcare system. Each chapter focuses on a key issue for the successful scaling or sustaining of innovation, including involving patients as catalysts for change, engaging senior leaders, interprofessional collaboration, impacting on organisational memory, allowing adaptations and iterations in the innovation, and capturing and sharing the experiences of the innovation. With an end of chapter toolkit featuring tips and strategies, this book will be a key resource for any healthcare manager or clinician wishing to implement innovation within their healthcare system, as well as students and scholars interested in these important issues.