Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness Programme (PACE)
PACE was a national programme funded by the then NHS Executive. It cost about £1.2 million over three years, from autumn 1995 to December 1998.
Its three linked objectives were to:
The experience of the project confirmed that a multi-faceted approach can be successful, but that implementation is messy, is not linear, takes time and is expensive.
Ten essential tasks were identified that when used together as components of an implementation programme can lead to success. These are:
Publications include:
Its three linked objectives were to:
- support 16 local projects within Health Authorities and NHS Trusts in the NHS in England to demonstrate the effective implementation of evidence-based practice
- support a PACE Network of individuals who had interest in clinical effectiveness
- disseminate the lessons from the local projects.
The experience of the project confirmed that a multi-faceted approach can be successful, but that implementation is messy, is not linear, takes time and is expensive.
Ten essential tasks were identified that when used together as components of an implementation programme can lead to success. These are:
- choosing when to start
- engaging clinicians
- involving patients
- defining local standards
- keeping in touch
- securing change
- providing services
- measuring impact
- sustaining change
- learning lessons.
Publications include:
- Turning Evidence into Everyday Practice by M Dunning et al. London: King's Fund, 1997
- Experience, evidence and everyday practice: creating systems for delivering effective health care by M Dunning et al. London: King's Fund, 1999
- A quarterly PACE Bulletin, published 1995 to 1998. Back issues can be consulted by visiting the King's Fund Information and library service.
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