Co-creating Health phase one

The evaluation aims to:

1. Assess the outcomes of the initiative – the benefits to patients, healthcare professionals, organisations and the healthcare system
2. Describe how the initiative is delivered and experienced, in order to generate the information needed to make it replicable
3. Explain how the outcomes were achieved – the critical success factors and barriers.

Summary of evaluation approach and methods

Using a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, the Co-creating Health evaluation design will:

• enable interim findings and learning to be shared with sites, the National Support Team and the Foundation, which will contribute to the development of the programme
• measure a range of patient, clinician and health service outcomes before and after the programme and compare these outcomes against sites who have not implemented the programme
• ‘tell the story’ of Co-creating Health. 

Key methods include staff and patient surveys, interviews, observation of clinical interactions, the patient and clinician development programme and learning events and analysis of routinely collected clinical and health service utilisation data.

Outputs produced to date

• Annual evaluation report from year one of the programme
• Annual evaluation report from year two of the programme
• Themed paper: The role of the patient in Co-creating Health
• Themed paper: What is co-production?
• Report on the interim analysis of clinical and health service utilisation data

Milestones and key dates

• November 2008: Evaluation started
• October 2010: Third themed paper comprising case studies on ADP delivery within Cambridge, Torbay and Aran and Ayrshire demonstration sites to be delivered
• December 2010: Fourth themed paper on senior stakeholder views within demonstration sites to be delivered
• February 2011: Final evaluation report delivered

Useful contacts

Louise Wallace, Professor of Psychology and Health at the University of Coventry.