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Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford
BACKGROUND: Commissioning and monitoring of community-based interventions is a challenge due to the complex nature of the environment and the lack of any explicit cut-offs to guide decision making. At what point, for example, is participant enrolment to interventions, course completion or satisfacti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31248396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7149-7 |
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author | Bryant, M. Dharni, N. Dickerson, J. Willan, K. McEachan, R. Duffy, J. Howell, M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Commissioning and monitoring of community-based interventions is a challenge due to the complex nature of the environment and the lack of any explicit cut-offs to guide decision making. At what point, for example, is participant enrolment to interventions, course completion or satisfaction deemed to be acceptable or sufficient for continued funding? We aimed to identify and quantify key progression criteria for fourteen early years interventions by (1) agreeing the top three criteria for monitoring of successful implementation and progress; and (2) agreeing boundaries to categorise interventions as ‘meeting anticipated target’ (green); ‘falling short of targets’ (amber) and ‘targets not being met’ (red). METHODS: We ran three workshops in partnership with the UK’s Big Lottery Fund commissioned programme ‘Better Start Bradford’ (implementing more than 20 interventions to improve the health, wellbeing and development of children aged 0–3) to support decision making by agreeing progression criteria for the interventions being delivered. Workshops included 72 participants, representing a range of professional groups including intervention delivery teams, commissioners, intervention-monitoring teams, academics and community representatives. After discussion and activities, final decisions were submitted using electronic voting devices. All participants were invited to reconsider their responses via a post-workshop questionnaire. RESULTS: Three key progression criteria were assigned to each of the 14 interventions. Overall, criteria that participants most commonly voted for were recruitment, implementation and reach, but these differed according to each intervention. Cut-off values used to indicate when an intervention moved to ‘red’ varied by criteria; the lowest being for recruitment, where participants agreed that meeting less than 65% of the targeted recruitment would be deemed as ‘red’ (falling short of target). CONCLUSIONS: Our methodology for monitoring the progression of interventions has resulted in a clear pathway which will support commissioners and intervention teams in local decision making within the Better Start Bradford programme and beyond. This work can support others wishing to implement a formal system for monitoring the progression of public health interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-65982712019-07-11 Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford Bryant, M. Dharni, N. Dickerson, J. Willan, K. McEachan, R. Duffy, J. Howell, M. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Commissioning and monitoring of community-based interventions is a challenge due to the complex nature of the environment and the lack of any explicit cut-offs to guide decision making. At what point, for example, is participant enrolment to interventions, course completion or satisfaction deemed to be acceptable or sufficient for continued funding? We aimed to identify and quantify key progression criteria for fourteen early years interventions by (1) agreeing the top three criteria for monitoring of successful implementation and progress; and (2) agreeing boundaries to categorise interventions as ‘meeting anticipated target’ (green); ‘falling short of targets’ (amber) and ‘targets not being met’ (red). METHODS: We ran three workshops in partnership with the UK’s Big Lottery Fund commissioned programme ‘Better Start Bradford’ (implementing more than 20 interventions to improve the health, wellbeing and development of children aged 0–3) to support decision making by agreeing progression criteria for the interventions being delivered. Workshops included 72 participants, representing a range of professional groups including intervention delivery teams, commissioners, intervention-monitoring teams, academics and community representatives. After discussion and activities, final decisions were submitted using electronic voting devices. All participants were invited to reconsider their responses via a post-workshop questionnaire. RESULTS: Three key progression criteria were assigned to each of the 14 interventions. Overall, criteria that participants most commonly voted for were recruitment, implementation and reach, but these differed according to each intervention. Cut-off values used to indicate when an intervention moved to ‘red’ varied by criteria; the lowest being for recruitment, where participants agreed that meeting less than 65% of the targeted recruitment would be deemed as ‘red’ (falling short of target). CONCLUSIONS: Our methodology for monitoring the progression of interventions has resulted in a clear pathway which will support commissioners and intervention teams in local decision making within the Better Start Bradford programme and beyond. This work can support others wishing to implement a formal system for monitoring the progression of public health interventions. BioMed Central 2019-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6598271/ /pubmed/31248396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7149-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bryant, M. Dharni, N. Dickerson, J. Willan, K. McEachan, R. Duffy, J. Howell, M. Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford |
title | Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford |
title_full | Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford |
title_fullStr | Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford |
title_short | Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from Better Start Bradford |
title_sort | use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: lessons from better start bradford |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31248396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7149-7 |
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