EVALUATION OF THE PLACE BASED CARE PROGRAMME

The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB), in partnership with the Gwent Regional Partnership Board (RPB), has identified the Place Based Care (PBC) Programme as a key transformational priority. This programme is designed to unite community members, organisations, services, and multidisciplinary teams responsible for promoting the health and well-being of local populations.

Its overarching aim is to foster resilient, connected communities, reduce health inequalities, and lower rates of preventable illness and premature death. The programme focuses on delivering care and support closer to home while ensuring timely, equitable, and efficient access to specialist services when needed.

To enable the effective implementation and continuous improvement of this initiative, ABUHB is seeking independent evaluators with proven expertise in assessing complex systems change and the development of high-performing, integrated neighbourhood teams. The appointed evaluators will play a vital role in measuring progress, outcomes, and impact, and in driving ongoing learning and improvement across the system.

Key outcomes required would include:

• Developing a set of feasible outcomes, indicators, and measurement tools that the programme can use to track short, medium, and long-term changes that will provide insight into the impact of the programme

• Developing a set of feasible outcomes, indicators, and measurement tools to assess impact on community and individual well-being in the long term.

• To implement a capacity-building programme enabling the programme team and partners to understand and apply the measurement frameworks outlined in Objectives 2 and 3

• To provide a summary of the position after one year, highlighting progress in sustainability and scaling

The health board would require this contract to commence 01/01/2026 and be delivered by 31/03/2026.