Projects and case studies

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  • Evaluation of an Occupational Health Helpline for SMEs

    The Occupational Health helpline for small and micro enterprises (SMEs) is one of a number of initiatives being tested that address issues raised in Dame Carol Black's review 'Working for a Healthier Tomorrow’. Actions are being taken at the level...

  • Assessment of Business Link Health Checks

    Business Link Health Checks were developed to help smaller firms to identify business areas in which they could develop new capabilities in order to withstand the effects of the current economic downturn. Since coming on stream last year, they...

  • Evaluation of Activity Agreements Pilots

    In 2006, the government launched two new pilot policies aimed at attracting disengaged young people back into learning: Activity Agreements (AA), aimed at 16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) for 20 continuous weeks, and...

  • Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Consultant Radiographer Posts

    The Scope of Practice 2008 project recommended that the College of Radiographers commission an independent evaluation of the impact of implementation of consultant, advanced practitioner and assistant practitioner roles, in order to assess the...

  • Evaluation of the Local Employment Partnerships

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) Integrated Employment and Skills Programme Unit (IES PU) asked IES to undertake the main phase of the evaluation of Local Employment...

  • Evaluating the Benefits of the Radiography Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme

    The Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme or ISAS is the outcome of a development project jointly undertaken by Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) over the period from 2006 and 2008, during...

  • Leadership Programme Evaluation

    IES was asked to evaluate Innovations in Healthcare, a leadership programme offered by the NHS Institute and the Radiology Consulting Group, Boston. The programme involves teams who are tackling live issues within a local health economy attending...

  • Worker involvement: evaluating HSE health and safety representative training

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to evaluate its training initiatives for employee health and safety representatives, which aimed to increase the number of representatives.In the first instance, we evaluated two pilot...

  • Retention of Black and Minority Ethnic and Female Police Officers

    By 2009, the police service had worked hard to increase the recruitment of Black and minority ethnic (BME) and female officers, and aimed to maximise the retention of such officers. Recent evidence indicated, however, that the rates of voluntary...

  • A Coaching Evaluation Toolkit

    IES developed an evaluation toolkit for a national coaching scheme. The aim was to enable the scheme co-ordinators to evaluate at three different levels on an on-going basis: Effectiveness of the coach and the coaching (did the coaching work?);...