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HSE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE EAST, HEALTH PROMOTION & IMPROVEMENT
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION ? STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION AND CO-DESIGN OF AN
EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
OVERVIEW OF HEALTH PROMOTION & IMPROVEMENT / HEALTH AND WELLBEING
The HSE Health Promotion & Improvement team, within Health & Wellbeing
at Community Healthcare East (CH East), are responsible for the
delivery of national health and wellbeing programmes in Dublin South,
Dublin South-East and Wicklow.
Health promotion is the process of empowering people to increase
control over the factors that influence their health. At its core is
the belief that health is created and affected by the places where we
are born, grow, live, work and age. As a field of professional
practice, we work to decrease the burden of chronic disease on our
health care system and focus on actions that target the root causes of
inequalities and ill health, as opposed to treatment and cure.
We work within the HSE to embed a health promotion approach into
health service delivery. We also engage with national, community and
voluntary organisations to promote health and prevent illness across
the lifespan, across a breadth of populations and interventions (see
Appendix 1). Key components of our work are education, community
action and the development of healthy public policy. Our
evidence-based programmes support the aims of the Healthy Ireland (HI)
Framework, Community Healthcare East HI Implementation Plan and
Sl?intecare.
CONTEXT OF THIS TENDER
Despite the many evidence-based programmes and initiatives delivered
in CH East, there is no integrated framework in place to support a
culture of consistent local evaluation of programmes. Research,
monitoring and evaluation is a key component of any health promotion
(or indeed healthcare) practice, but additionally is necessary to
ensure cost-effective use of public funds. It also ensures initiatives
are safe, translatable, appropriate, acceptable, effective, and
cost-effective, within specific contexts, populations and
circumstances.
Building ethical and rigorous evaluation into practice systematically,
would allow for efficient use of staff time for those who wish to
evaluate programmes or processes, while allowing us to capture and
disseminate valid, meaningful and robust outcomes of interventions and
programmes. This ensures that value for money can be demonstrated,
outcomes can be tracked and monitored within and across programmes,
and evidence for whether local programmes are meeting the diverse and
complex needs of its population can be provided. It would further
support continued funding of programmes for which benefits can be
robustly demonstrated. However, many staff do not have the capacity to
plan, design and undertake evaluation or research activity within the
constraints of their workload, and current evaluation efforts often
take place in silos, without a systematic, overarching research and
evaluation structure or framework in place.
Further, a recent report1 by the ESRI demonstrated that there are
important inequalities remaining among the general population in
Ireland, emphasising the need to measure whether our work is meeting
the needs of the most vulnerable, and targeting these inequalities.
The HSE Action Plan for Health Research **Apply on the website**
aspires to a position where ?the workforce is enabled by an
appropriate culture and has opportunities for development? in
relation to research. By embedding a framework for best practice
evaluation within the department, we can ensure that this work is
efficient, justified and aligned to best practice nationally and
internationally, as the research/evaluation culture develops in tandem
across the health service. We can further deliver practice-based
evidence to contribute to the field using pragmatic implementation of
interventions.
_PLEASE SEE TENDER DOCUMENT ATTACHED BELOW._
EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS
Quotation/proposal submissions should be made by PDF document and
directed by email to **Apply on the website** by COB FRIDAY **APPLY ON
THE WEBSITE**TH NOVEMBER **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**.
Please add ?Evaluation Framework Tender? to the subject line.
Informal inquiries can be directed to **Apply on the website** or
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