NHS Innovation Accelerator November 2018
- This research focuses on the role of adopting organisations and aims to understand the key factors enabling the uptake of innovation and to determine how decisions are made within NHS organisations.
- The areas it aimed to address were:
- How and why organisations take up an innovation
- The enabling factors which facilitate the uptake and embedding of the innovation
- The impacts of adopting the innovation on organisational practices
- Based on 9 case studies from the NIA programme, the study offers insights related to how organisational context plays a significant part in adoption as well as highlighting recurrent themes in innovation spread across the NHS.
- The analysis is organised into three sections: the adoption journey, the adoption network, and common tasks in the adoption journey