title: Development and implementation of a nurse-led walk-in centre: evidence lost in translation?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The design of the first Australian public nurse-led primary care walk-in centre was modelled on those established in the English National Health Service (NHS). An independent evaluation of the first 12 months of operation of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health walk-in centre, in 2011, analysed the translation of evidence from the national evaluation of the NHS walk-in centres to the policy development and implementation of the ACT walk-in centre. Whilst in a number of ways the evidence was used well, our interest for this paper was to examine three areas identified as problematic and to identify the points at which the evidence was lost or diluted.
  
  
  METHODS
  In addition to data obtained through nurse and key stakeholder interviews for the evaluation, an analysis was undertaken of documents on the planning and establishment of the ACT walk-in centre, either provided to the evaluation team or made publicly available.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three areas were identified as problematic in the way that evidence from the NHS evaluation was translated: the use of clinical decision support software (CDSS); the marketing of the walk-in centre; and its location.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our examination indicates that despite seeking evidence to inform the development of the ACT walk-in centre, the evidence was not fully used and some clear lessons ignored, resulting in much of the evidence being lost in translation.
authors.affiliation: Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University, Acton, Australia. jane.desborough@anu.edu.au
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Desborough
authors.forename: Rhian
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forrest
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D001315:Australia; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care; D016730:Program Development; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013222:State Medicine; D018581:Technology Transfer
keywords: clinical decision support software; evidence-based medicine; health policy; knowledge translation; nurse-led; nursing; walk-in centre