Friday 8 November | 13:05-14:35

Session format: Presentation

Stream: Leading

 

Part 1: Can ‘living’ guidelines be made, and if so, will they be used?

Keeping best practice guidelines up-to-date with rapidly emerging research evidence is one of the key challenges to delivering evidence-based care. ‘Living guidelines’ approaches enable continual incorporation of new research, assisting healthcare professionals to apply the latest evidence to their clinical practice.

However, our understanding of how living guidelines are developed, maintained and applied is limited.

The Stroke Foundation in Australia was one of the first organisations to apply living guideline development methods for their Living Stroke Guidelines (LSGs), presenting a unique opportunity to evaluate the process and impact of this novel approach.

Peter Hibbert Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University; Australia

 

Part 2: Shifting from “me” to “WE”

Imagine a healthcare system, of which we are a part, that embraces the essential needs of all those implicated by our decisions, as our primary organising principle. Effectively reorientating ourselves to enhance our chances of success in consciously evolving the healthcare system to meet the needs of those it serves. We will share our lessons learned and our insights into the social context in which cooperative behaviours are reinforced more than selfish behaviours, in pursuit of this endeavour. If you wonder how we could improve our responses to meet the needs of a changing future or why initiatives sometimes fail to generate sustainable improvements, or why we habitually revert to what we have always done; join us as we deliberate on some far-reaching questions.

Duncan Brown, Culture Craft, Australia