Why do we still need to talk about spread and scale? The reality is we continue to see ‘isolated islands of improvement’ or lack of spread and adoption of innovation and improvement.
Today is the launch of a unique resource to help leaders select the most appropriate methods and levers to enable the spread and scale of innovation and improvement.
The resource, a set of webpages and a sketchnote, offers a menu of methods and levers grouped under 7 spread and scale approaches of:
Building capacity and capability
Networking, peer learning and collaboration
Piloting and rolling out
Coordinating through large scale engagement and national programmes
Investing and Incentivising
Governing and Assuring
Identifying and communicating priorities
These approaches, and the methods and levers within each, are shown visually in this sketchnote.
Use this resource to help you choose the appropriate method(s) and levers(s), from the range available, to match your innovation or improvement, while considering timing, audience, resources and the nature of the intervention itself.
This content was developed with extensive and essential input from colleagues within NHS England (NHSE), the wider NHS (local and regional including AHSNs and AHSN network) and wider partners and was coordinated by NHS Horizons and the Innovation, Research and Life Sciences team at NHSE.
