By Health Foundation (January 2013)
In 2011, the Health Foundation launched an improvement programme to support networks in healthcare. It linked selected networks with a faculty of experts, and with each other, to provide an exchange of ideas, advice, support and training in network leadership and development. This report captures the experiences of the programme participants as they began working together; highlights key learning and early insights; and examines how all this relates to what the research evidence tells us about running networks. It also provides an informal overview of the literature on networks and a glossary of commonly used network terms.