Good health systems depend on well-informed decision making. However, health policy makers and managers often formulate strategies and reforms without reference or access to evidence.
Decisions are too rarely informed by data (on performance and outcomes) that might ensure the best approach in context. What often it seems to be missing are truly effective brokering mechanisms to bridge the gap between policy makers and the information and research being generated.
Cluster lead: David McDaid
Contact: D.McDaid@lse.ac.uk|
Current projects
BRIDGE - Scoping study of approaches to Brokering knowledge and Research Information to support the Development and Governance of health systems in Europe
This scoping study will explore:
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existing knowledge brokering approaches and what is known about their effectiveness
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use of these approaches in Europe and the organisational arrangements that support them
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policy making itself and the way it intersects with technical inputs.
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KT social care project
The project is a two year collaboration between PSSRU and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) with the overall aim of improving links between research bodies, such as PSSRU, and social care organisations, users, practitioners, carers and policy makers.
Funded from the LSE's Higher Education Innovation Fund, the project seeks to do this through improving dialogue between the different agencies and across government, ensuring greater involvement from service-users, practitioners and policy makers in the research process, and disseminating research findings through a range of media to a large number of different audiences.
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