If an agency regularly falls short, heads may roll, but the main idea is to ensure that best practice spreads throughout the organisation.The BA's new president already has some results to show for his efforts.
Bill Derrough, a specialist in corporate restructuring and a fund-raiser for Catholic charities, said that if parishes simply got the names of their members into the computer, they could organize meet-ups, share best practices, spread news.
But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best practices spread slowly.
Newly established best practices have spread faster than expected through the company, thanks to the creation of a central corporate team dedicated to spreading the word; previously this had been left to individual factories.
In 2002, Ovretveit et al identified four research questions about QI collaboratives that call for a more critical theoretical paradigm: (1) whether improvements spread more quickly in collaborative programmes; (2) if the resulting improvements are larger in magnitude; (3) if the results last longer and (4) if the best practices are spread more widely.
In the case of endometriosis, a condition that affects 10% of women of reproductive age, too many health professionals ignore symptoms, remain ignorant of best practice treatments and spread myths about "cures".
The cash comes garlanded with targets, action plans and examples of best practice to be spread throughout the system.Both Mr Blair and Mr Milburn have extolled their review as a fundamental rethink of the old shibboleths of health-care politics.
Educational networks are not exclusive to students; relational data between teachers, teacher educators, and school administrators may reveal how best teaching practices spread and explain institutional discrepancies in advancing science education.
Other programmes developed as a result of ideas spreading amongst organisations keen to spread best practice.
"We want to spread best practice," he added.
