Rapid comparative evaluation
What are we doing?
We are developing a facility for rapid evaluation of health and care innovations in Greater Manchester using routine data, such as the Greater Manchester Care Record.
This could support better evaluation during the development of innovations; help us look at the effects of innovations in different groups of local people; integrate evaluation into a continuous process of innovation development and implementation.
Why is it important?
Innovation in health and care needs evaluation to ensure benefits for patients and communities. Although research-based evaluation has an important role, it is often costly and slow.
Rapid evaluation using routine data has an important role in supporting innovation. Greater Manchester is potentially well-placed to support rapid evaluation through the Greater Manchester Care Record.
How are we doing it?
Although linked, routine data is already used to conduct epidemiology and understand the impact of the pandemic, we want to expand to explore the effects of health and care innovations.
This will involve identifying people or organisations that are using an innovation, forming ‘matched’ control groups, and then linking that information to relevant outcomes. We are working on methods to access the data in a timely way, that is acceptable and useful to the local system.
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Who are we working with?
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Programme Manager
Gill Rizzello
gill.rizzello@manchester.ac.uk