Department of Medicine

Work-stream 1 Innovation Adoption & Behaviour Change

Anticipated Outputs

  • diagnostic tool kit to identify barriers to innovation adoption.

  • better management decisions  condusive to innovation adoption

  • blueprint for developing social marketing in an acute setting

  • social marketing materials that can be used across the NHS

  • Improved antibitoic prescribing and infection control behaviours

Work-Stream Leaders Rifat Atun and Alison Holmes

Professor Rifat Atun 

Aim: to identify effective system-based models of approaches which allow the adoption and implementation of innovations in infection prevention. To evaluate innovative approaches to patient safety, imbedding infection control into patient pathways.

Professor Alison Holmes

Aim: to apply behavioural sciences and social marketing to understand infection control practices and antibiotic prescribing behaviour. To design, implement and assess a number of marketing interventions that will promote the desired behaviours. To replicate this across the NHS.

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