Training | Evaluation Skills | 1 May 2024

Justin’s research examines the implementation of strategic change in healthcare systems and the impact of change on the work, culture and identity of healthcare professionals.

Health and care leaders are constantly looking for and experimenting with new ways of organising and delivering care, often in the context of growing demand, staffing shortages and resource constraints. This can result in lots of promising innovations that help improve service organisation and delivery, but questions often remain about how effective and safe these innovations are, and whether other service providers should take them up. In these situations, there is a need for rapid evaluation to provide time-critical evidence and learning.

In this session, Justin Waring will introduce the principles of rapid evaluation and explain some of the approaches currently being used by the NIHR Birmingham RAND and Cambridge (BRACE) Evaluation Centre.