Table 3 Organisation-based sources and types of knowledge mentioned in interviews or observed
Department of Health | NICE | NHS Improving Quality | Public health | CSU | ‘Think tanks’ e.g. Kings Fund | Royal Colleges | Local healthcare providers | Non-local CCGs/ CSUs & healthcare providers | Commercial & not-for- profit providers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Best practice | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Local relationships | ✓ | |||||||||
Electronic newsletters | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Organisational development | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Commissioning guidance | ✓ | ✓ | ? | |||||||
Clinical guidelines | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
‘Horizon scanning’ | ✓ | |||||||||
Academic research | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Improvement tools | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Project management | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Service &/or population data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Commissioning experience | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
Products | ✓ | |||||||||
Patient pathways | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Advanced data = interrogation skills | ✓ |