Challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. This book examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge. Examining how clinicians actually develop and use clinical knowledge day-to-day, it states that they use 'mindlines' - internalised, collectively reinforced, tacit gui[...]

Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care highlights how communities of practice (CoPs) can make service development and quality improvement in health and social care easier to initiate and more sustainable. Using a series of case studies from the UK and Australia the book demonstrates how [...]