About the Knowledge Mobilisation Framework programme
The NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework is designed to help individuals to develop and use skills to mobilise knowledge effectively in their organisations – to help them to learn before, during and after everything that they do so that pitfalls can be avoided and best practice replicated.
It is a re-working of an original concept devised by what was the Department of Health Connecting for Health Knowledge Management Team and the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Library and Knowledge Services Team.
The modules introduce eleven techniques to help plan, co-ordinate and implement knowledge mobilisation activities in your organisation. Accompanying the framework are a set of quick reference cards.
If you would like further information about the programme or help with using any of the techniques described, please contact a regional library lead.
More information
Learning Before
At the beginning of a work activity, and accepting that individuals and teams bring a body of knowledge to a task, Learning Before is about considering what you know, what you don’t know and identifying strategies to plug knowledge gaps to get a piece of work off to the best possible start. This might mean searching for written or explicit knowledge such as tools and guidance; or, it could mean identifying and discussing with experts their insights and experiences or their tacit knowledge. Techniques presented in the framework can help an organisation or team to get started quickly and efficiently on a project or piece of work by giving them access to the learning and experiences of others who’ve undertaken the same work or something similar in the past. So this means they can avoid the pitfalls that have befallen others and they can benefit from the successes of others too – helping to get it right first time.
Learning After
Learning After is concerned with taking a pause to reflect on a work activity, and to capture, build – and ultimately share a knowledge base of a work area with those that would have an interest in it. That knowledge might be shared with immediate peers in different departments or organisations, or with successors.
Learning During
Learning During balances both Learning Before and Learning After activities: it is concerned with both new knowledge requirements as they emerge and packaging insight/experience to provide the foundation for the work that follows.
Thank you
Thank you to Caroline Storer, Knowledge Manager, NHS Digital; Andrew Lambe, Senior Knowledge and Intelligence Manager, NHS England and other members of the original project team for providing much of the material on which we have been able to build. Thanks also to our reference group for bringing their expertise and knowledge to the project team and to our volunteer library staff for testing, evaluating and informing the development of the modules.
Meet the team
Alison Potter
Technology Enhanced Learning Lead, Health Education England, working across South
Alison Day
Project Manager, Knowledge for Healthcare, Health Education England
Louise Goswami
Head of Library and Knowledge Services and Technology Enhanced Learning, Health Education England, working across London and Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Helen Bingham
Head of Knowledge Services and Technology Enhanced Learning, Health Education England working across the South
Sue Lacey-Bryant
Senior Advisor, Knowledge for Healthcare, Health Education England
Victoria Ward
Learning Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
How to access
Available to all
The Knowledge Mobilisation Framework programme is freely available to access here.
Please note your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion. If you require evidence of learning, please register and then log in to access this programme on the elfh Hub.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Knowledge Mobilisation Framework programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My elearning section.
To view the Knowledge Mobilisation Framework programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The Knowledge Mobilisation Framework programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Knowledge Mobilisation Framework programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.