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Project Design >> Forming multidisciplinary teams

c. Composition

For the maximum effectiveness of your project, the core team should include representation from all key clinical areas and disciplines identified in your care system.

Depending on your care system, the core group will include representatives from:

  • different medical specialties in the acute setting and general practice,
  • nursing,
  • allied health, and
  • pharmacy.

  
 
  Use stakeholder analysis to identify and assess the importance of key people, groups of people, or institutions that may significantly influence the success of your activity or project.

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There are significant advantages in the core group containing:
  1. a consumer and/or carer representative, and
  2. a management representative (particularly within the hospital setting)

  1. Advantages of consumer and/or carer representation

    Consumer and/or carer representatives will add different perspectives to the team�s decision-making. Consumer representatives can also provide particular assistance in:

    • planning project activities to support patients in the uptake of evidence, and
    • obtaining feedback from patients about the care provided.


  2. Advantages of management representation

    • To provide resources for the project, either as funds or services to support project activity
    • As an ally in addressing organisational barriers to project activity;
    • In planning to support sustainability.
 

 
  "Interaction and cooperation between management and clinicians is vital to ensure success, sustainability and organisational change with respect to evidence-based practice. Leadership from both groups is required. As clinicians are the content experts, the implementation of evidence clearly requires clinical leadership. Systematic strategies to support continuous practice improvement require input from multiple hospital services, so leadership from management is also needed. An operational framework in which there is shared leadership, responsibility and accountability for the care provided and the management of available resources is needed."

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