Hi Gayle,
We have some templates and tools that are freely available. They are designed for ongoing evaluation, but we are using them with orgs at the moment to do rapid deep dives and learn from seeds of successful practice. Very happy to discuss more if helpful. For example tools to capture successful practice available from this blog https://www.matter-of-focus.com/tell-your-story-event-summary-and-resources/ and also tools for diagnosing how context is affecting your work. https://www.matter-of-focus.com/appreciating-the-complexity-of-your-work-risks-and-assumptions-made-real/. T

Evaluation Support Scotland have also produced some templates to support learning through lockdown http://www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/.

Hope this helps, will be interested to hear how you get on.

We are also looking to do a similar thing at our Trust so this is really helpful thankyou! Happy to link in about our progress!

Hi Gayle

We have various innovation and evaluation tools here https://www.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/news/programme/welcome-our-innovation-and-evaluation-microsite

And Nuffield also have some useful resources worth checking out
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/event/advancing-rapid-evaluation-challenges-and-opportunities

Hi Gayle,

You may like to review my recent paper in BMJ OPen Quality (“Measure what we want”), which describes several measures that should be useful for measuring staff and patients’ perceptions of innovations, organisation culture, patient experience, outcomes etc.
https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/9/1/e000789.

Call me on 07855 682037 if you want to discuss further.

You might find this site useful. https://www.betterevaluation.org/en

Thank you everyone for your speedy and really helpful responses.
I will have a look and let you know how we get on.
It would be lovely to hear what you have all found too.

Hi Gayle

I have been charged with gathering learning from our response to COVID-19 for our organisation and was struggling with the scope. We are not patient facing so it may not be completely relevant but I have broken it down as below.

As part of our data collection work, we are planning to use this useful framework published by CIC Collaborate http://wordpress.collaboratei.com/wp-content/uploads/Collaborate-CIC.-Learning-Framework-April-2020.pdf

• Resilience planning
o Effectiveness of plans
• Agility
o Deployment of staff
o Local mobilisation plan
o Responsiveness to external requests for help
o Abortive effort (work started but abandoned, duplicated elsewhere, or found to be spurious)
• Innovation
o Use of technology
o Methodological developments
o New ways of working
• Experience of Staff
o Leadership approaches
o Levels of communication
o Extent of collaboration
o Behaviour changes and responses to behaviours of others
• Our external impact
o Engagement with communities
o Addressing inequalities
o Uptake of our outputs
o Performance reporting

Good luck and it would be great to continue to share notes!

Further to my earlier comment you may find the tools posted by Amar Shah on his Trust’s website useful, in particular, the Quality impact assessment for service change during COVID-19 and the Shaping the Future document.

Virtual Working

Hi Gayle, we are sharing a tool to help build a understanding of rapidly evolving contextual factors that shape work that can be used for evaluation and planning in a webinar on the 4th June. More information here https://www.matter-of-focus.com/talking-about-context-building-a-shared-understanding-of-how-your-work-is-changing-with-covid-19/