Partners for Health in London

Approach

At The King's Fund we think it is essential for the improvement of health services to:

  • understand practice
  • share learning more widely about which interventions are more promising than others.

We do this by:

  • working with practitioners to make explicit ideas and explanations about how projects work
  • exploring what actually happens during the lifetime of a project – we can sharpen our joint understanding of the key success factors and transferrable learning
  • seeing evaluation as a learning tool rather than a summing up at the end of the project
  • using an evaluation model that encourages systematic enquiry to help identify and clarify barriers to progress – also making it a management tool.