The SHARP (Social Inclusion, Hope and Recovery Project) aims to increase social inclusion, decrease distressing symptoms, reduce relapse, promote healthy living, and enable innovative practice for people in Lambeth experiencing psychosis. The impact assessment aims to use evidence collected to reach a wider audience, determine if the project makes a difference, and challenge preconceptions to effect systems changes. Reasons for the impact assessment include looking at quality of care delivered, not just numbers, and ensuring evidence requirements are appropriate for service development.

1. Social Inclusion,
Hope and Recovery Project
(SHARP)
SHARP Impact
Assessment

2. Supporting people in Lambeth
experiencing psychosis with severe and
enduring mental health symptoms.
Aims of SHARP
● To increase social inclusion
● To decrease distressing symptoms
● To reduce relapse
● To promote Healthy living
● To enable new and innovative
practice
Social Inclusion,
Hope and Recovery
Project
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3. To use evidence collected in a meaningful
way and reach a wider audience
To see if we actually make a difference and
make a clear value offering in a climate of
cuts and budget tightening
To effect systems changes and challenge
what we think we know about ourselves as
a service
Because we need to be looking at the
quality of care we’re delivering and
not just numbers
Why do an impact
assessment?
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We collect data and store it in places where no one sees it

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Iterative
approach
Feedback
into the service for
improvements
Research & analyse
(qualitative and
quantitative)
Identify and validate
outcomes through
Theory of Change

5. Involve team to identify outcomes and
how they are linked to SHARP activities
and outputs.
How can we achieve the right outcomes?
How can we measure the evidence?
Outcomes
mapping
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6. Retaining rigorous standards whilst
ensuring that the evidence requirements
are appropriate to the development of
services and products.
Aiming as high up the standards scale
as possible, depending on the stage
of the service
Levels
of evidence
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7. Finding the data sources and people with
skills to analyse
Finding ways to make it robust –
independent analysis of data, triangulation,
control group data, etc.
Mixed methods
Patient Reported Outcome Measures
(PROMS)
Real-world
evidence
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8. Telling the story through examples
of lived experience
Use of different technologies (e.g. video)
Get everyone involved in design
(including service users)!
How do we
make evidence
engaging?
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9. Show & tell:
http://sharpnhs.github.io/sharp-ia

10. Improving service and acknowledging
weaknesses
Getting a foot in the door and
speaking to key decision makers
The importance of timing
Impact of the
impact assessment
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Are we looking
at the right information
to make big decisions?

12. Thank you!
Sarah Josefsberg
Boris Divjak
@MaudsleyNHS
@Ubxd
http://sharpnhs.github.io/sharp-ia
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