The Brilliance Project in Healthcare: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

The motivation behind having brilliance as a focus for a project in healthcare is about trying to understand it, and from that, trying to find ways of spreading such understanding widely so that the topic of brilliance is more pervasive in health services and in health management. This paper is about how research on brilliance in healthcare could be undertaken and how a group of academics, with no previous research connections, have come together to collaborate through a Health Management Research Alliance (HMRA) and started a conversation about how to achieve this challenging objective. The paper describes the challenges they have identified and outlines some of the projects that they have developed to pursue the brilliance agenda in healthcare.