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Evidence & Evaluation
How Living Well Partners approaches evidence, evaluation and the responsible use of findings across research, programme development and digital innovation.
Our approach to evidence
Living Well Partners is a developing organisation, supported by more than two decades of relevant experience across research, evaluation, service improvement, programme development, health-related work, publishing and the translation of evidence into practical resources.
We take an evidence-informed approach to everything we develop. This means starting from identified need, drawing on existing research and practice knowledge, and building in ways of understanding what is and is not working from the earliest stages of a project.
We are deliberate about the language we use. We do not describe emerging work as proven before evaluation has taken place, and we do not make outcome claims that our current stage of evidence cannot support.
How evaluation is built into our work
Where a programme, pilot or digital solution is being developed or delivered, evaluation is planned alongside it rather than added at the end. Depending on the scale and stage of the work, this can include:
- needs assessment and understanding of the intended population and context;
- clear, proportionate aims agreed at the outset;
- baseline and follow-up measurement where appropriate;
- structured feedback from the people using a programme or service;
- usability and pathway-fit testing for digital solutions;
- transparent reporting of what was done, what was observed and what was not measured; and
- reflection and refinement in response to findings.
The form evaluation takes is proportionate to the project. Small pilots are evaluated as small pilots; larger programmes are evaluated with methods suited to their scale and the decisions they need to inform.
How we report findings
Where evaluation findings are shared, we aim to be clear about the basis on which they were collected, who took part, and what the findings can and cannot tell us.
Where results are self-reported by participants, we describe them as self-reported perceptions rather than as evidence of clinical or organisational outcomes. Where work is at an early stage, we say so. Findings from small samples are not generalised beyond what they can reasonably support.
Evaluation of programmes involving participants is conducted with appropriate confidentiality. Individual participants are not identifiable in shared findings unless they have explicitly agreed to it.
Published reports and evaluation outputs
18 September 2026
Living Well Hub Early Pilot & Real-World Evidence Report 2026
Living Well Pilot 1 — descriptive and qualitative findings from the Whole Hub community feasibility, acceptability, navigation and preliminary outcomes evaluation. These findings describe a small feasibility pilot and provide signals about usability, acceptability, navigation and perceived benefit; they do not establish clinical effectiveness or causality.
18 September 2026
Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Self-Management Signals from the Living Well Digital Support Platform (2026)
Living Well Pilot 1 — a mixed-methods community feasibility research paper. This paper reports a small, uncontrolled feasibility study concerning usability, acceptability, navigation and preliminary participant-reported benefit. It does not establish clinical effectiveness, causality or cost-effectiveness. Research paper / preprint; not peer reviewed.
Discuss evaluation of your programme or pilot
Living Well Partners can support research design, needs assessment, user engagement, evaluation and iterative refinement for our own programmes and in collaboration with implementation partners.