Event: Beginners Guide to Knowledge Management (KM)

2nd November 2012 - 08.30-5pm London, England

Additional seminars will be held in Peterborough (5th October 2012) and Newcastle Upon Tyne (7th December 2012), and dates in Europe are currently being finalised.

Find out more about the London event here.

This one day seminar, delivered by Ron Donaldson is about setting knowledge management into the framework of the Innovation Ecosystem and how it needs to be understood in the context of a complex adaptive systems thinking with a strong emphasis on narrative (ie storytelling) based methods.

Event: Transforming healthcare infrastructure and austerity

19th-21st September - Cardiff, Wales

The Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre delivers world class research to support better healthcare through better infrastructure. The conference will include more than 25 new research presentations plus top level speakers looking at the UK, European and Welsh perspectives of how infrastructural and service innovation can deliver higher quality, more cost-effective healthcare in this age of austerity.

To find out more about this event, click here.

Webinar: Using social investment to scale high impact innovation in healthcare

23rd August 2012 - 10am-11am - online

This webinar is for prospective Academic Health Science Networks on the potential for using social investment to help scale innovation in healthcare.

Find out more and register here.

Webinar: Why research matters to managers

10th September 2012 - 4.30pm-5.30pm - online

This webinar explores the interface between researchers and service leaders.

Find out more and book your place via HSR Live.

Implementation clinic workshop

26th September 2012 - 4pm-7pm - London

This workshop will explore learning from two implementation case studies to tease out different models and approaches and implications for those leading or supporting integrating research and practice.

Find out more here.

The Pathology Services Commissioning Toolkit

19th September 2012 - Holiday Inn Oxford Circus, London, UK

Click here to find out more and book a place on this event.

"The toolkit is a "how to" manual supporting the commissioning of community pathology services, produced by the Department of Health working with NHS Midlands and East. It will enable to ensure local negotiations or competitive tenders are based on a robust process, and aligned with developments elsewhere in the system.  This event outlines the challenges and opportunities, and presents the Pathology Services Commissioning Toolkit."