Publications: Evaluation for Better Performance

2018

• Counterterrorism evaluation: Taking stock and looking ahead 2018

  Jacopo Bellasio, Joanna Hofman, Antonia Ward, Fook Nederveen, Anna Knack, Arya Sofia Meranto, Stijn Hoorens

  This report presents the results of a study investigating how evaluations of counterterrorism (CT) and preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE) policies were designed and conducted over the last five years and what practical lessons can be drawn from these. The study encompassed a set of interconnected research tasks, including the production of an inventory of CT and PCVE evaluations and of an ad-hoc analytical framework.

• Development of metrics to measure the impact of Tommy's work 2018

  Advait Deshpande, Susan Guthrie, Carla Cox, Adam Bertscher

  This study presents metrics to help work out what Tommy's should measure and how Tommy's should report impact. These metrics cover four different elements of Tommy's strategy: the research centres, the implementation centre, the pregnancy information service, and the clinics. The aim is to work out how each contributes to Tommy's desired outcomes, namely the reduction of stillbirth, preterm birth and miscarriage.

• Evaluating interventions that prevent or counter violent extremism: A practical guide 2018

  This document provides an overview of data collection methods and evaluation designs suitable for evaluating interventions and programmes designed to prevent and counter violent extremism and radicalisation. This document also provides a comprehensive discussion on ethical considerations in PCVE evaluation more broadly, as well as in the application of specific evaluation methods.

• An evaluation of Dance4Life's social franchising and empowerment models 2018

  Ben Baruch, Yulia Shenderovich, Tom Ling

  Dance4Life, an international NGO working with young people on health and promotion of safe sexual choices, wanted to develop their understanding of new implementation and social franchising pilots. RAND Europe delivered a process evaluation that provided evidence on these pilots. The evaluation employed several data collection methods (document review, interviews, surveys and ecological momentary assessments) to provide evidence on the pilots.

• Evaluation of the Second Phase of the Q Initiative 2016–2020: Interim Report 2018

  Tom Ling, Katherine Stewart, Bryn Garrod, Lucy Hocking, Jennifer Newbould, Cloé Gendronneau

  Q is an initiative is led by the Health Foundation and supported and co-funded by NHS England to connect people working in quality improvement across the healthcare system throughout the UK. RAND Europe was commissioned to provide an independent evaluation of Q, starting in 2016 and reporting in early 2020. This is the interim report of that evaluation, documenting progress towards the overarching evaluation aims.

• Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Effectively: A Practical Guide 2018

  Barbara Janta

  This policy memo prepared for the European Platform for Investing in Children, provides a short resource guide for child-serving organisations to support effective implementation of evidence-based practices.

• Independent evaluation of the Q Improvement Lab: Final Report 2018

  Elisa Liberati, Megan Sim, Jack Pollard, Tom Ling

  The first Q Improvement Lab ('Q Lab'), funded by the Health Foundation and NHS Improvement, was launched in the spring of 2017. RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge conducted a real-time, formative evaluation to address the overarching question: 'Is the Q Lab approach likely to become an effective, valuable way of developing ideas or interventions to support positive change at multiple levels of the health and care system?

• Learning from the UK's Research Impact Assessment Exercise: A Case Study of a Retrospective Impact Assessment Exercise and Questions for the Future 2018

  Molly Morgan Jones, Catriona Manville, Joanna Chataway

  Synthesis of the results of two national evaluations of the research impact assessment exercise and reflections for the future.

• System change through situated learning: Pre-evaluation of the Health Innovation Network's Communities of Practice 2018

  Bryn Garrod, Tom Ling

  Communities of Practice (CoPs) are self-organising and self-governing groups of people who strive to be better practitioners by developing and spreading new knowledge and practices. CoPs are seen as valuable means to improve collective learning in health and social care, but measuring their effect is difficult. This scoping study collected data to assess the feasibility of, and best approach to, a full-scale evaluation of CoPs.

• Understanding the Drivers of Organisational Capacity 2018

  Kate Cox, Stephen Jolly, Simon Van Der Staaij, Christian Van Stolk

  This RAND Europe study, conducted in collaboration with the Saatchi Institute, examines organisational capacity assessment. This study explores how organisational capacity is understood and measured in a range of organisations, before analysing how culture and communication drive organisational performance and offering an initial outline of a diagnostic tool for organisational capacity.

• Patient Experience of NHS Health Checks: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis 2018

  Juliet A. Usher-Smith, Emma Harte, Calum MacLure, Adam Martin, Catherine L. Saunders, Catherine Meads, Fiona Walter, Simon Griffin, J. Mant

  The NHS Health Check programme is one of the largest current prevention initiatives in England, and many studies reporting patients' experiences of this have been published. This article provides the first systematic synthesis of these studies.

2017

• Evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme 2017

  Emma Disley, Daniel Schweppenstedde, Emily Scraggs, Jennifer Rubin, Ben Baruch

  This is the final report of an evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme, which issued grants between 2004 and 2014 to organisations helping migrants to gain access to justice and services. The report presents findings about the Programme's impacts on law, policy and practice in Ireland, and the lessons that might be drawn for other grantmakers, grantees, policymakers, researchers and academics working in this field.

• Innovative Methods and Procedures to Assess Counter-violent-radicalisation Techniques in Europe 2017

  Jean-Luc Marret, Jacopo Bellasio, Helma Berg, van den Berg, Anke Van Gorp, Dianne Dianne van Hemert, Liliana Leone, Rozetta Meijer, Richard Warnes, Ron van Wonderen

  We found that IMPACT Europe's main result is a more robust and quasi-standardised mode of measuring effectiveness, broadly defining and evaluating programmes and interventions.

• 'Macro' Evaluation of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre 2017

  Catherine A. Lichten, Alexandra Pollitt, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, Jon Sussex, Adrian Towse

  The Office of Health Economics and RAND Europe were commissioned by the Oxford BRC to undertake a programme of top-down evaluations of aspects of the impact of the BRC. This programme of research has looked at the health, economic and scientific impact of Oxford BRC's research activity.

• NHS Health Check Programme Rapid Evidence Synthesis 2017

  Juliet A. Usher-Smith, J. Mant, Adam Martin, Emma Harte, Calum MacLure, Catherine Meads, Catherine L. Saunders, Simon Griffin, Fiona Walter, Kathryn Lawrence, et al.

  The report summarises the key findings from an evidence synthesis completed by the University of Cambridge and RAND.

• Reasons Why People Do Not Attend NHS Health Check: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis 2017

  Emma Harte, Calum MacLure, Adam Martin, Catherine L. Saunders, Catherine Meads, Fiona Walter, Simon Griffin, J. Mant, Juliet A. Usher-Smith

  This study highlights a number of findings of relevance to policymakers and healthcare professionals delivering NHS Health Checks. In particular, it suggests three areas for action at a policy or practical level.

• A review of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council 2017

  Sarah Parks, Catriona Manville, Katherine Stewart, Louise Lepetit, Marie-Louise Henham, Miaoqing Yang, Joanna Chataway

  This report details evidence input into the Review of the Research Grants Council, the Hong Kong agency responsible for distribution of research funding through competitive grants. We used focus groups, interviews, surveys, an online consultation and documentary analysis to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the RGC funding assessment and allocation process and identify areas for future improvement.

• Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care and the Vanguard Initiative: Learning from Evaluation of the Southern Cluster 2017

  Sonja Marjanovic, Bryn Garrod, Talitha Dubow, Emma Pitchforth, Catherine A. Lichten, Julian Elston, Emma Harte, Jon Sussex, Miaoqing Yang, Fahd Malik, et al.

  Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) vanguards aim to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of UEC services. The three Southern Cluster UEC vanguards have made progress across core activities. Vanguard funding, status, leadership and practical mechanisms to support joint working have driven progress. Public engagement, workforce capacity and data interoperability challenges will need to be addressed for longer-term impact at scale.

• Views of Commissioners, Managers and Healthcare Professionals on the NHS Health Check Programme: A Systematic Review 2017

  Katie Mills, Emma Harte, Adam Martin, Calum MacLure, Simon Griffin, J. Mant, Catherine Meads, Catherine L. Saunders, Fiona Walter, Juliet A. Usher-Smith

  This is the first study to systematically synthesise data concerning the views of commissioners, managers and healthcare professionals on the National Health Service Health Check programme.

2016

• College of Policing Stop and Search Training Experiment: Process Evaluation 2016

  Chris Giacomantonio, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Yael Limanovitz, Ben Bradford, Matthew Davies, Lucy Strang, Alex Sutherland

  RAND Europe, in partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford, was commissioned in July 2015 to support the College of Policing in a process evaluation of the Stop and Search Training Pilot that was delivered across six police forces in England from August 2015 through October 2015. This report presents findings from the process evaluation.

• Evaluating the role and contribution of innovation to health and wealth in the UK: A review of Innovation, Health and Wealth: Phase 1 Final Report 2016

  Teresa Bienkowska-Gibbs, Josephine Exley, Catherine L. Saunders, Sonja Marjanovic, Joanna Chataway, Calum MacLure, Ruth McDonald, Tom Ling

  An evaluation of the Department of Health's Innovation, Health and Wealth (IHW) strategy suggests broad stakeholder support for the overarching ambitions, but progress on the objectives of the eight IHW themes was variable.

• Evaluating the role and contribution of innovation to health and wealth in the UK: A review of Innovation, Health and Wealth: Phase 1 Appendix 2016

  Teresa Bienkowska-Gibbs, Josephine Exley, Catherine L. Saunders, Bryn Garrod, Calum MacLure, Ruth McDonald, Tom Ling

  We evaluated progress towards the DH's Innovation, Health and Wealth (IHW) strategy. The appendix accompanying the report provides a comprehensive overview of findings from the first phase of the evaluation

• Evaluation of EPIM III: 2012-2015 2016

  Joachim Krapels, Emma Disley, Jennie Corbett, Emily Scraggs, Ben Baruch

  The European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) is a group of European Foundations who pool funding to strengthen civil society organisations in their efforts to advocate for constructive approaches to migration in Europe. This is done through grant-making, capacity development and networking. In 2012 EPIM commissioned RAND Europe to undertake an evaluation of their third funding round, which operated between 2012 and 2015.

• An evaluation of the first phase of Q: Engaging the founding cohort in a co-designed approach to health care improvement 2016

  Bryn Garrod, Josephine Exley, Emma Harte, Celine Miani, Jennifer Newbould, Catherine L. Saunders, Tom Ling

  Q is an initiative, led by the Health Foundation and supported by NHS England, designed to connect people skilled in quality improvement across the UK. The Q founding cohort comprised 231 members who attended three two-day 'design events'. We carried out an embedded evaluation of the first phase of Q, to look at both the success of the design process and the potential for success for Q, while providing continuous findings to the Q project team.

• Evaluation of the UCLH-Macmillan Partnership to deliver improvements in the care, treatment, support, and information to patients with cancer throughout their individual journeys 2016

  Tom Ling, Gary A. Abel, Josephine Exley, Saba Hinrichs, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Silvia C. Mendonca, Celine Miani, Emma Pitchforth, Jennifer Newbould

  An evaluation of the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust—Macmillan Cancer Support partnership aimed to assess the working of the partnership and its capacity to support the partners' plans to move forward.

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