Learning networks in the pandemic: mobilising evidence for improvement

Key messagesThe paucity of evidence during the early phase of the pandemic provided an opportunity for real time learning driven by communities of practiceLearning from these communities led to clinical and service innovationA mix of opportune and strategic support from regional and national bodies in England created clinical learning networks, which adopted and spread change rapidlyHealth systems should develop learning networks to coordinate resources to innovate, evaluate, and implement emerging best practice for both pandemic and non-pandemic timesThe challenges of embedding evidence into practice are well known in clinical practice, service organisation, and delivery. Less discussed is an effective mechanism to generate and implement evidence rapidly into clinical practice. During the covid-19 pandemic clinicians needed to develop and spread novel practice both for managing patients with covid-19 and to adapt existing models of care to make them safe for patients with other conditions.Clinicians and researchers came together organically to develop…
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