Rapid Service Evaluation Team (RSET)

The health and care system in the UK looks after an ageing population with increasingly complex care needs, but money is tight. This means the NHS needs to: develop new ways of providing care and, when a new approach works well, understand and share learning about that success with other parts of the health and care system quickly. To meet this challenge, the Rapid Service Evaluation Team (‘RSET’), comprising health service researchers, health economists and other colleagues from University College London and the Nuffield Trust, have come together to rapidly evaluate new ways of providing and organising care. We have been funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Service and Delivery Research (HS&DR) programme. The NIHR HS&DR programme have also funded a second team, the Birmingham, RAND and Cambridge Evaluation (‘BRACE’) Centre, which is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, RAND Europe, the University of Cambridge and National Voices. The two teams will coordinate their evaluation programmes to maximise benefits from our work.

Principal Investigators: Prof Steve Morris; Prof Naomi Fulop

Project Staff: Dr Angus Ramsay;  Dr Jean Ledger;  Dr Cecilia Vindrola-Padros;  Dr Sonila Tomini; Steven Towndrow;  Christine Taylor; Pei Li Ng.

Partners/Collaborators: Nuffield Trust https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/

Funder: National Institute for Health Research

Start Date: 2018

Duration: 5 years

Webpage: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/rset-the-rapid-service-evaluation-team