CHILL  - Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning

Our research has a direct impact on improving the quality and experience of patient care.

We support innovation and improvement in healthcare by putting evidence into practice.

Our research philosophy reflects the commitment we have to collaborating with partners both in the co-design of research and in the translation of evidence into practice.

CHILL research priorities

Our research is focused on four strategic priorities:

1. Improving quality and safety

• HeLPA  - Healthcare Leadership with Political Astuteness
• The reconfiguration of major trauma networks
• Improving best practice in wound care
• Emotional labour in the emergency department
• Community rehabilitation and care transitions for elderly people (CIRACT)
• Safe hospital discharge

2. Sustaining innovation

• The role of networks in implementing health innovations
• The role of knowledge brokering in implementing health innovations
• Big medical data use in primary care
• The use of improvement methodologies in clinical practices