Evaluation and application of learning
Supporting partners to evaluate impact and apply evidence and learning to improve the delivery of a wide range of services.

Use Evaluation and Learning approaches to support others to understand their impact.
Provide actionable insights to enable service and innovation change.
Support those delivering services and innovations to make best use of evidence-informed approaches to measure and test.
Evaluation and learning details
Using our experience evaluating improvements and testing innovation to support partners to evaluate the impact of changes and capture learning.
Change must be evaluated to check it is achieving its intended impacts and outcomes, especially in fast-moving situations.
We have specialist expertise with an exceptional track record in the evaluation of healthcare programmes, service delivery and new innovations.
We actively support people and organisations to evaluate impact and to generate learning, and we provide support for national and regional programme evaluation.
Actionable insights
Evaluation needs to result in action to deliver improvement. We share knowledge and provide actionable insights to inform improvements and spread innovative practice.
In response to shifting needs, we use rapid cycle learning to measure and evaluate in specific fast-moving situations. This draws out timely insights to inform service design and improvement.
Ongoing impact and spread
We support our partners to translate innovation into positive ongoing impact for our health and care system. Our approach is collaborative, blending our evaluation expertise with the expertise of those delivering services and innovations.
Our expertise in measuring change and sharing learning to evaluate innovations is vital in bringing people together and enabling innovation spread.
Bespoke workshops and presentations
The Evaluation and Learning team are actively engaged on a regular basis delivering workshops and presentations to groups so that we might share our knowledge and experience with others looking to learn more about evaluation approaches. We are able to deliver bespoke workshops and presentations on a wide range of topics.
If you have an evaluation project in mind that you are looking to progress or you are interested in arranging bespoke training for your organisation, please contact Lynnette Chapman.
Evaluation Expertise
Here in the team we are lucky to have a wide range of expertise spanning many years in:
- Theory of Change/Logic Modelling
- Evidence informed practice and service design
- Outcome and Impact evaluation and measurement
- Quantitative surveys, data analysis and data visualisation
- Qualitative evaluation including case study approaches, depth interviews, focus groups.
- Rapid Cycle Learning
Relevant Programmes
The South West AHSN team have the rare combination of awareness of the private sector, academia and public sector. They genuinely understand the challenges faced by a rapidly scaling business developing a solution for health and social care."
— LOUISE MORPETH
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