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The Cambridge and RAND Europe National Evaluation Team
Background
New ideas and approaches in health and social care, like new technologies and different ways of working, have the potential to improve quality, reduce inequity in service provision, and provide better value. But the impact of innovations can vary.
Some innovations don’t achieve their goals, some may have unintended consequences, and others work well for some people and in some places but not others.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme (NIHR HSDR) has commissioned three new national evaluation teams to work with policymakers, staff, and people who use health and social care services, to study whether, how, and why new innovations are effective.
One of these teams is the Cambridge and RAND Europe National Evaluation Team (CARE-NET).
Approach
Over five years, the CARE-NET team will lead evaluations of new services and other innovations in the health and care system in England.
These evaluations will vary in their focus, from evaluations of small pilot studies which help refine and improve promising new ideas to large-scale summative evaluations to measure the overall effectiveness of a programme after it’s been fully implemented and provide high-quality evidence on its impact, how it works, and why.
The team will work with people who draw on health and social care services, people who are leading new interventions, policymakers, staff and others, to try to make sure the evaluations consider a range of different viewpoints and produce strong, useful evidence. The team from THIS Institute and RAND Europe may also collaborate with other researchers from elsewhere in the country.
Funding and ethics
NIHR HSDR programme, reference number NIHR164029