Implementing NICE Guidelines on bipolar disorder
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Implementing NICE Guidelines on bipolar disorder into routine health care: integrated managed innovation network approach versus other implementation approaches.
IRAS ID
214911
Contact name
Richard Morriss
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Nottingham
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 2 days
Research summary
Bipolar disorder is the 18th leading cause of years lost due to disability and is estimated to result in annual costs to the economy of £5.2 billion. NICE Guidelines provide the most up to date and cost effective clinical care. In September 2014 NICE published a clinical guideline which updated and replaced the previous clinical guideline.
Research shows that NICE Guidelines are rarely fully implemented, and there is great variation in their implementation not only between organisations but also within the same organisation over time. In particular, NICE recommendations that require changes in the organisation of care, or are counter to established practice, are poorly implemented.
This study is looking at the processes by which NICE guidelines for Bipolar Disorder are implemented across three NHS trusts. The overarching objective is to gain insight into the effectiveness of each of the approaches in order that implementation of guidelines can improve.
The proposed study is designed to examine whether the creation of a focussed network tasked with implementing the guidelines improves the effectiveness of guideline implementation, or whether, as some evidence suggests changing clinical behaviour is actually more successful with local leadership and in keeping with local culture and practice.
The focussed network in this study will be the creation of an i-MIN (Integrated Managed Innovation Network). An i-MIN is an example of an implementation method that brings together a multi-disciplinary team with a defined task of promoting the adoption of the guideline recommendations in all parts of the workforce managing bipolar disorder.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/EM/0247
Date of REC Opinion
29 Aug 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion