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KTPs with PCTs: Known Terrifying Pandemonium or

Powerful Collaborative Teams

Ruth Slater and Ailsa Brotherton

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What is KTP

• Established in 1974

• Government supported scheme

• Knowledge and technology transfer

• Stable companies of all sizes from all industrial sectors:

– Charities and not-for-profit organisations

– Education institutions (LEAs and schools)

– Health organisations (hospitals and NHS Trusts)

• Three-way partnership

– Organisation/Academic/Graduate

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The Process

Prepare outline for submission to

KTP Adviser

Prepare application with guidance from KTP Adviser

Application assessed by Partnership

Approval Group (PAG)

Proposal funded – continued input from

KTP Adviser2 weeks

4-6 weeks 6-8 weeks 4 weeks

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The Golden Thread

What do you want to do and why?

Objectives

How are you going to do it?

Outputs

What does it deliver?

Outcomes

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Top 10 Reasons for ‘Not Supported’

1 Company Accounts

2 Workplan

3 Is it really KTP?

4 Too many amends/re-write/form abuse

5 Business Case

6 Academic Challenge

7 Length of Project

8 Associate (supervision/location)

9 Differentiation from previous KTP

10 Is it the right academic

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The PCT need to be able to be able to answer the following:

• What is the level of uptake of each service?• Will it deliver a diverse range of clinically effective interventions?• Is each individual service effective?• Will the communication strategy and the social marketing

campaign be effective?• What are the training needs of the staff?• Will the CWMP be successful in demonstrating improved life

expectancy and well-being?• What are the service user and staff experiences of the service

delivery?• What will be the impact of the CWMP on cost savings and how

will this influence future commissioning?

Community Weight Management Pathway: a complex and untested system

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NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan KTP: work plan summary

Evaluation of a community weight management pathway: ‘Lose

Weight Feel Great’• Undertake stakeholder mapping and stakeholder engagement

events • Develop an evaluation framework • Assess the success of individual components of the CWMP and

how they interrelate. • Undertake training needs analysis of staff and facilitate the

delivery of training • Evaluate the cost effectiveness of the components of the

CWMP• Disseminating findings / share good practice

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Known Terrifying Pandemonium

Known Terrifying Pandemonium

PCT world The KTP ‘world’ Bringing the 2 worlds together

Obesity policy and key drivers Having to wrote the proposal in a business language (translating profit and cost savings into health benefits)

Developing a shared understanding: learning the language and jargon

Current service provision Structured process

Challenges The complexity of the wider determinants of obesity and its management and incorporating these into the research project

Colleagues in the PCT

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Powerful Collaborative Teams

Powerful Collaborative Teams

Quality: review process Service user engagement The core team:

Associate, PCT supervisor, academic supervisor

Study size Stakeholder engagement KTP Partnership: wider team

Structured process Collaborative working: PCT and UCLAN

Potential Other KTP Teams: Alchemy Training

Our KTP Manager

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Contact Details:

Ruth Slater

KTP Manager

T: 01772 895074

E: rhslater1@uclan.ac.uk

Ailsa Brotherton

Senior research fellow

T: 01772 895114

E: ambrotherton@uclan.ac.uk