2 INSPIRE: Increasing Intrapreneurial Skills through Pedagogy

Abstract The Department of Health QIPP (Quality Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) agenda requires health practitioners to consider efficient and productive ways of providing safe care for patients- this agenda needs innovative, intrapreneurial practitioners across a range of professions to drive change. Intrapreneurship is an individual intention or drive to innovate within an organisation, developing and implementing novel solutions to organisational problems often in a ‘bottom-up’ way. Research shows formal education increases the confidence of professionals moving into specialist roles; intrapreneurship is particularly relevant to these roles but the development of skills for enterprising activity is rarely attended to in NHS training. The aim of this project was to develop and implement an intrapreneurial pedagogy. The study focused on oncology practitioners although the study outcomes have relevance to the wider education of Health Care Practitioners (HCP). An interpretive methodology was adopted to gain insight into the learning experiences of identified intrapreneurs within the specialism of radiotherapy. Individual interviews augmented with evidence on entrepreneurial learning from the literature was used to model a development path to intrapreneurialism that was then used as the basis for an intrapreneurial pedagogy. The intrapreneurial pedagogy was then piloted on a small cohort of masters students studying an oncology module on breast cancer.