Collaborative Practice

An educational resource to address a vexing shortfall in health care improvement, patient safety and implementation science. There is a dearth of learning materials and educational opportunities that are available for inducting practitioners into handling unexpected clinical outcomes, reflecting on their personal performance in response to such outcomes (over and above rule and script compliance), and deliberating effective and novel ways forward from complex challenges. This resource is an experiential learning event that aims to engage participants in deliberating credible (based on a real-life) sets of events and information.

A play commissioned by the Centre and produced in partnership with KCLSU society The King's Players. 'How Harm Happens' examines the clinical-technical and emotive factors in interprofessional care. It tells the story of the death of Tom, a young man admitted to hospital with a pain in his stomach. The play will be performed on the opening night of King’s CAIPE Conference 2020: Reduction of Harm Through Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. The conference will take place over three days, 17-19 June 2021, at the College’s Strand Campus, London.

Interprofessional learning, collaborative practice and integrated care are now at the forefront of healthcare policy makers’ priorities. However these policy priorities come with limited guidance supporting their practical realisation. New methods and approaches that scale the chasm between interprofessional aspiration and service reality are called for. What kinds of interprofessional learning and working are needed to tackle the increasingly complex circumstances that define the real world of care provision?

Handover improvement work to date has been framed within ‘check list’-like frameworks aiming to systematise communication and render it as standardised and predictable. The central idea being explored is that dance movement therapy may impact on clinicians’ approach to handover by highlighting their inherent behavioural and mobility routines. Working with dance experts, and drawing on Dance Movement Therapy, handover practices will be filmed and scrutinised to capture predominant mobility features which can then be integrated into dance representations with the aim of eliciting reflections from clinicians about how they work together, how they move and how they embody their professional roles.