You are expected to write a scholar essay to link and address the following: 1. Innovation in healthcare, as a result between knowledge management concepts and innovation concepts. 2. How hospital's barriers may affect the relationship between knowledge management and innovation outcomes. Critique, compare and contrast the above 2 statements using academic literature. Then, by choosing an example you consider appropriate , critically examine and discuss how the above 2 statements could be implemented in the NHS in the context of applying knowledge management to the innovation of providing a product or service. Meeting required CRITERIA: 1. Evidence of reading in the area in innovation and knowledge management. 2. Use of normative literature to explain the conceptual aspects of Knowledge Management and Innovation. 3. Synthesis of literature with practical examples to emphasize important issues and to explain how Knowledge management has facilitated innovation in NHS, or Health Care.