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Building a community of learning together: Age Scotland’s Dementia Training
Read our report produced with Age Scotland's Dementia Training team for their third year of work.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
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Making sense together: How do you know if you are making a difference? event summary
An inspiring and interesting afternoon of discussion held in Edinburgh on 24 November 2022
Training and events
Evaluating the DEEP programme: Embedding evidence-enriched practice in social care in Wales
Hosted by Matter of Focus Director Ailsa Cook with Gill Toms from the University of Bangor.
Case Studies
Opportunities for meaningful participation in evaluation
An Evaluation Stories webinar about how we worked with the Life Changes Trust Advisory Group (Young…
Case Studies
Evaluating service transformation underpinned by the Scottish Approach to Service Design
An Evaluation Stories webinar with East Ayrshire’s Thinking Differently Team.
Case Studies
Building the case for peer support: an Evaluation Stories webinar with East Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership
Using OutNav for the evaluation of peer support approaches in health and social care.
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Creating compelling case studies as part of your evaluation
Working with OutNav to create and utilise case studies
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Learning as we go in Quality Improvement: Using OutNav to evaluate the Children and Young People Improvement Collaborative
Recorded live Evaluation Stories webinar with Franca Macleod, Principal Research Officer in Children and Families Analysis…
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Evaluating health and social care transformation: learning from the House of Care programme
Recorded webinar sharing and discussing key findings and learning from our evaluation.
Case Studies
Transforming health and care systems for people living with long term conditions – an outcome focused approach
With the Lothian House of Care Collaboration between Thistle Foundation and NHS Lothian
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Ongoing learning and support with the OutNav Community
An OutNav subscription comes with the wider benefits of a learning and sharing community.
Our software OutNav
Making the case for better use of qualitative data in public services
This will be of interest to anyone working in public services with an interest in data…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Understanding creative impact – evaluating early learning professional development
Watch our Evaluation Stories webinars to learn directly from organisations using #OutNav to evaluate their work.
Case Studies
A new approach to trauma informed working
Future Pathways embedded a complexity informed, theory based approach to evaluating the progress and outcomes of…
Case Studies
Understanding creative impact: insights into early learning professional development
Guest post by Catherine Wilson from Starcatchers, on being creative in communicating the difference the Creative…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Establishing neighbourhood care in a rural community
Live webinar recording: The Clacks and Stirling H&SCP Neighbourhood Care Team has embedded a complexity informed,…
Case Studies
A big birthday thank you!
On our 2nd birthday, we say thank you our early adopters who have helped us on…
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Twice-weekly drop-in help sessions for anyone working in OutNav wanting support, a sense-check or a chat!
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Embedding meaningful outcome evaluation: tips from the OutNav Community
Learning from organisations that are cementing their place at the forefront of best practice in meaningful…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
The value of collaborative learning: building the OutNav Community
It has always been a priority for us to establish a strong community of users around…
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