The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent Surrey and Sussex Knowledge Mobilisation programme focuses on building capacity and capability and mobilising evidence in response to local strategic priorities, and informing quality improvement and service transformation.
Examples of local priorities include:
- Ageing population and rising needs across all-ages.
- Mental health, together with the challenges of cost of living.
- Workforce and care delivery in rural and coastal areas.
- Access, demand, and transfers of care.
- Data informed quality improvement approaches.
The main approaches the knowledge mobilisation team are taking involve:
- Enhancing and helping to deliver initiatives, such as Integrated Neighbourhoods Care Teams, and complex patient pathways.
- Developing a framework for embedding NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex-funded Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows into into health and social care quality improvement and service transformation teams, to support sustainability.
- Creating learning opportunities for the funded Knowledge Mobilisation Fellows to embed health equity, cultural safety and equality, diversity, and inclusion into everyday health and social care practices.
- Ensuring that health and social care is delivered equitably, utilising health equity tools, including the Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex Health Equity Framework and the Sussex Digital Inclusion Framework.
More information
Further information can be found on the NIHR ARC Kent Surrey and Sussex web pages.
