Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care

Andrée le May is Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Southampton University. She has written, researched and taught widely on Communities of Practice, Evidence-Based Practice and Knowledge Transfer. In addition she is an experienced author and teacher.

• Foreword Etienne Wenger viiAcknowledgements xList of Contributors xiPart 1 Introducing Communities of Practice 1Chapter 1 Introducing Communities of Practice 3Andrée le MayPart 2 Getting Started 17Chapter 2 The EXTRA Community of Practice: Incubating Change 19Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts and Mireille BrosseauChapter 3 The Interior Health Nurse Practitioner Community of Practice: Facilitating NP Integration in a Regional Health Authority 28Linda SawchenkoChapter 4 Developing Dermatology Outpatient Services through a Community of Practice 36Judith Lathlean and Michelle MyallPart 3 Generating Professional and Patient Capital 47Chapter 5 Practice Made Perfect: Discovering the Roles of a Community of General Practice 49John Gabbay and Andrée le MayChapter 6 Learning Nursing in the Workplace Community: The Generation of Professional Capital 66Mary GobbiChapter 7 Communities of Practice and Learning Health Practice in Developing Countries 83Alex le MayChapter 8 Generating Patient Capital: The Contribution of Storytelling in Communities of Practice Designed to Develop Older People’s Services 95Andrée le MayPart 4 So What? 107Chapter 9 What Works, What Counts and What Matters? Communities of Practice as a Locus forContributing to Resource Allocation Decisions 109Helen Roberts, Alan Shiell and Madeleine StevensChapter 10 Where Does This Get Us and Where Will We Go from Here? 118Andrée le MayReferences 121Index 129