On July 10 2015 Big Lottery Fund and the evaluators of the Commissioning Better Outcomes (CBO) fund (Ecorys UK and ATQ Consultants) co-hosted a learning event to launch the Deep Dive report of Ways to Wellness - the UK's first Health Social Impact Bond (SIB). The event included hearing about the SIB from 3 different perspectives - the service provider, commissioner and investor. These slides are from the service provider - Phil Angier representing Ways to Wellness.investor – Mila Lukic of Bridges Ventures. Ways to Wellness aims to support people with long-term conditions, like diabetes, to improve their self-management. The Ways to Wellness service will support people through ‘social prescribing’. GPs will refer patients with long-term conditions to ‘link workers’; the link worker supports patients to understand their issues, motivate them to take up healthy activities, access services and take more control of their long-term conditions. Newcastle Gateshead CCG, who commissioned the service, will pay up to £8.2m if the service improves people’s self-management and this then reduces their access to secondary healthcare services (like hospitals), The service has received an upfront investment of £1.65m from the Bridges’ Social Sector Funds. Ways to Wellness must repay this investment if they receive the outcomes payments from Newcastle Gateshead CCG. The CCG has received £2m from the Big Lottery Fund’s CBO fund and £1m from the Cabinet Office's Social Outcomes Fund. The overarching aim of both funds is to grow the market in SIBs. Between them these funds are making up to £60m available to pay for a proportion of outcomes payments for these types of models in complex policy areas, as well as support to develop robust proposals. The aim of the CBO evaluation is to improve the understanding of the SIB model, by capturing learning, building an evidence base for the SIB model and its application in different contexts. The Ways to Wellness ‘Deep Dive’ report is the first of such reports to be produced by the evaluation. The evaluation will write another nine reports about other SIBs part-funded by the CBO fund. For more information visit the CBO evaluation webpage (https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/~/link.aspx?_id=38B25B895A86492AAA548D4737DFE302&_z=z) or contact James Ronicle, Senior Research Manager at Ecorys UK: James.Ronicle@ecorys.com