Scaling and Sustaining Innovation in Healthcare Systems: Adopting the Brazilian Community Health and Wellbeing Worker Model

Scaling and Sustaining Innovation in Healthcare Systems explores how healthcare innovations in complex systems can be used, scaled and sustained. Through the example of adopting the Brazilian Community Health and Wellbeing Worker role into the English NHS over the past two decades, it provides insightful, practical guidance so that future innovations can be successfully adopted.The Brazilian Community Health and Wellbeing Worker role has had a far-reaching impact across the health and social care services in Brazil and, more recently, also in the UK.By showcasing what worked and didn’t work in its implementation, the book provides a unique, real-world application of implementation science in a complex healthcare system.Each chapter focuses on a key issue for the successful scaling or sustaining of innovation, including involving patients as catalysts for change, engaging senior leaders, interprofessional collaboration, impacting on organisational memory, allowing adaptations and iterat