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Process Evaluation

Process evaluations focus on understanding your HealthPathways implementation, systems, and procedures, rather than its impacts or outcomes.

Key questions or programme aims

Process Evaluation

Key questions/Programme aims

What questions will identify if the programme is achieving its aims?

Outcomes/Programme logic

What difference do we aim to make? 

What do we expect to achieve?

Who will benefit?

Indicators

How will we know if progress is tracking well? 

What changes will we look for?

What indicators will help answer our key questions?

Methods/Data sources

What data will we collect and how?

Has the implementation of HP been successful for:

  • the programme?
  • clinicians?
  • Are clinicians satisfied with the HP programme?
  • Are there any programme barriers or constraints?
  • Is the programme working as intended?
  • Review feedback
  • Focus groups
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • Feedback:
    • Governance group
    • SMEs
    • CWGs/CEs
    • Clinicians
    • HP programme team

How is the HP programme utilising its resourcing?

  • Is the programme efficient?
  • Are some specialties more resource-intensive than others?
  • Monitor time usage 
  • Identify time-consuming specialties
  • Review feedback
  • Time per specialty per month
  • Time per task per month:
    • Development
    • Reviews
    • Localisations
    • Partial updates
    • Meetings and correspondence
    • Site administration
  • Dot
  • Feedback:
    • SMEs
    • CWGs/CEs
    • HP programme team
Identify any barriers in specialty development:
  • Time taken per specialty for development, localisation, and review
  • SME engagement
  • Page views per specialty
  • High-resource (time) low-use specialties
  • Review feedback
  • Time taken per specialty for development, localisation, and review
  • Page views per specialty
  • Dot
  • Google Analytics
  • Feedback:
    • SMEs
    • CWGs/CEs
    • HP programme team

Are the HP programme objectives being met?

Track programme indicators over time:
  • Localisations
  • Reviews
  • Development/draft
  • Partial updates
  • Number of pathways or pages in development or draft, localisations, reviews (12 categories)
  • Dot

Are quality control measures in place to ensure HP conforms with:

  • current clinical best practice guidelines?
  • locally accepted best practice?
  • Pathways are reviewed in collaboration with SMEs, CEs, and clinical leads
  • Pathways are reviewed as scheduled to ensure that clinical and local referral information is clear, accurate, and up to date
  • Audit selected pathways for clinical quality
  • Review quality control processes
  • Pathway audits
  • Procedure documentation review
  • Feedback:
    • SMEs
    • CWGs/CEs
    • HP programme team

How is HP being used by the wider health system?

  • Have relationships between primary, secondary, tertiary care improved?

 

  • Identify opportunities to increase collaboration between primary, secondary, and tertiary care
  • Identify any programme barriers
  • Determine the usefulness of HP as a vehicle for communication and relationship building
  • Review feedback
  • Focus groups
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • Feedback:
    • SMEs
    • CWGs/CEs
    • HP programme team
  • Increased participation in and engagement with HP
  • User logins
  • Sessions/page views
  • Google Analytics

Is health professionals' knowledge and use of, and engagement with HP increasing?

  • Increased participation in and engagement with HP
Positive trends in number of:
  • Users
  • Sessions
  • Page views
  • Google Analytics
  • Clinician satisfaction with the HP programme
  • Increased user knowledge of and confidence in appropriate care and referral services available locally
  • Improved user experience
  • User feedback on HP's impact on the quality of consultations
  • Focus groups
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • Impact of engagement and outreach activities
  • Number of communications
  • Estimated reach of communications
  • Google Analytics campaign tracking
  • Internal records
  • Impact of education activities
  • Number of events
  • Estimated reach of communications
  • Google Analytics and campaign tracking
  • Internal records
  • Feedback