Review & Act
Make sure you use your findings from your evaluation to inform your decision making.Toolbox
The following tools are either internal resources developed by the BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness and Research Team or external resources we have found useful.
Sample register of evaluation projects (can be used to record completion and outputs)
BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness and Research Team Tools and Templates
Guide to Reporting, Communicating and Acting
Action Planning
NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub guide to action planning
Sharing
Midlands DSU Guide to Evaluation Design, Principles and Practice
Better Evaluation Infographics
Knowledge Mobilisation
Resources to support implementation, knowledge mobilisation and impact
Knowledge Mobilisation Toolkit from Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
Please note we are not responsible for the content of external sites and these are for guidance only.
What and Why
Steps
To make sure your evaluation has an impact you need to:
- Review: clearly interpret and present your findings
- Share: communicate to your intended audience(s)
- Act: use your findings to inform your decision making
Note: your organisation(s) may already have a standard template for reporting, communicating and implementing findings from project evaluations and reviews, we have provided some simple tools to help you in their absence.
How Will I Present my Findings?
There is no single way to organise the writing up of your findings. However, there are several ways that you can ensure your report is readable and easy to digest. The overall aim should be simplicity, since a complex structure will hinder the reader’s understanding of the content. A suggested report template can be found here. The findings can be presented in a variety of ways, most commonly in a report, but consider alternatives such as presentations, posters, leaflets and infographics. Think about your audience and the best way to communicate the information to them. Don’t forget to make sure you feedback the findings from your evaluation to those who participated.
How Will I Share my Findings?
Working with your organisation’s communications experts and project team draw up a communication and dissemination plan for your evaluation to maximise its impact. Consider who your audience is, what the different approaches are to communicating the messages and the different formats these could be communicated in and by. Where available, build into your project/service communications strategy.
How Will I Act On my Findings?
Once you have reviewed the results of your evaluation (and taken account of limitations of these findings) you can use these to make your recommendations for going forward based on the evidence. Ideally these would be reviewed by and agreed with your project team and tested out with your key stakeholders. The next step is to develop an action plan for implementing these recommendations.