Practice to Policy: Assessing Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Health Policy in Greater Manchester

In the context of health policy, literature suggests that multiple actors have various preferences over which evidence to use in influencing their decisions, and that collaboration between policy makers and researchers is essential to improve knowledge translation. Through a mixed methods approach, this research aims to identify the factors and barriers that facilitate knowledge translation in decision-making and determine if collaborative working exemplified by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership results into an improved uptake of evidence and better decision-making. The overall contribution of this research is to provide a small picture of what decision-making is like in the local level, in the midst of budgetary pressures and political agenda to provide effective solutions in the health policy context in Greater Manchester.