Evaluation of Keep Well
Keep Well is an example of anticipatory care in practice. It was developed as part of plans to tackle health inequalities in Scotland in 2006.
Evaluating Keep Well
A summary paper of key findings across the national evaluation and implications for practice is available here
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Keep Well has been evaluated with the aim of building knowledge about the feasibility and challenges of delivering the project, and the success of different approaches to engagement and service redesign, with a view to incorporating the lessons learned from the pilots into subsequent waves of implementation and/or policy rollout.
Further information about the Keep Well project can be found on our Anticipatory Care topic pages and on the Scottish Government's Keep Well website (external link).
The national evaluation of Keep Well has been conducted by a team from the University of Glasgow (Departments of General Practice and Primary Care, and Urban Studies) and the University of Edinburgh.
The evaluation is reported in seven Policy and Practice Papers, three Supporting Papers, a summary paper, and two area specific papers, and three learning notes. The papers are as follows:
- No. 1: Keep Well and the Development of Anticipatory Care Approaches in Primary Care
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.1
- No. 2: Defining and Operationalising the Hard-To-Reach in Keep Well
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.2
- No. 3: Models and Impact of Outreach in Keep Well
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.3
- No. 4: Keep Well – Reach and Engagement
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.4
- No. 5: Who are reached by Keep Well? Characteristics of attendees by cardiovascular risk factors
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.5
- No. 6: Patient and Practice Experience of Keep Well
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.6
- No. 7: Impact of the concentration of deprivation on practice responses to Keep Well
- Executive Summary Policy and Practice Paper No.7
- Supporting Paper No.1: Health Inequalities and Policy Responses in Scotland: the Policy Context for Keep Well
- Supporting Paper No.2: Evaluation Methods
- Supporting Paper No.3: Utility of Respondent-Driven Sampling for Researching Underserved Populations
- Keep Well: Lothian, Wave 1 - Pilot, Reach, Engagement, and Clinical Profile
- Keep Well: Tayside - Impact of Keep Well on Risk Factors over Time
- Learning Note 1: Targeting and Engagement.
- Learning Note 2: Models of Delevery and Implementation.
- Learning Note 3: Information and Data Management.
For further information on the Keep Well Evaluation please contact John Connolly
NHS Health Scotland
Updated 12th July 2011