“Evaluation provides practical information to help decide whether a development or service should be continued or not. Evaluation also involves making judgements about the value of what is being evaluated” - NHS Research and Development Forum (2006)
Service evaluations are designed and conducted to appraise the effectiveness or efficiency of an individual service with the intention of providing information to inform local decision making.
For information regarding differentiating between service evaluations, clinical audit and research please refer to HQIP: ‘A guide for clinical audit, research and service review’ Nov 2011
In the first instance, you will be asked to complete the attached Service Evaluation Registration Form - you can also request this from michaela
The submission will then be reviewed to ensure it is of a high standard, feasible, supported by the relevant service and demonstrates clear benefit to the Trust.
Evaluators must provide:
- Evidence of service support
- Evidence of academic institution support (if applicable)
- Copy proposal/outline (if for an academic project)
- Copy HRA decision tool certificate confirming the study is an evaluation or other correspondence from the HRA confirming the study as an evaluation (if applicable).
- Copy of all associated paperwork which may include information sheet(s), consent form(s) (MCFT templates available upon request) and questionnaire (if applicable).
The application will then be logged and issued with a Trust reference number. Following review, the evaluation will be assigned a Trust reference number and recorded on the service evaluation database. Once reviewed and approved, a confirmation to commence email will be sent to the lead reviewer with relevant and informative attachments including a summary sheet which we request to be completed and sent back to michaela.thomson@merseycare.nhs.uk
Templates of information sheets and consent forms can be requested from michaela