RWE Programme 2024

Real-World Evaluation Programme 2024/25 Overview

Do you want to understand the impact of an innovation? Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is offering its evaluation expertise to deliver real-world evaluation for health and care organisations in Dorset and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Systems, and our university members.   

Perhaps you need evidence for a business case or future funding decisions, or you want to know what helps and hinders the implementation of an innovation into your setting.  Real-world evaluation can generate these findings to support you to make evidence-based decisions.

The Real-World Evaluation (RWE) Programme provides fully-funded independent real-world evaluation that will be delivered by Health Innovation Wessex’s Insight team during the financial year 24/25.  Please read the terms of reference and complete the short expression of interest (EOI) form which needs to reach us by 12 noon on Wednesday 20 March.   

Please contact us with any questions that you might have before you submit an EOI.  We kindly ask that you contact us before applying if you are at all uncertain about your eligibility.

You can download the terms of reference at the end of this article. We have also provided a PDF of the EOI so that you can prepare your responses offline before entering them into the online EOI (MS Form) Expression of Interest form 

Real-World Evaluation Programme Timeline 

RWE Programme launches: week commencing 19th February 2024 

Deadline for submission of EOI: 12.00 (noon) on Wednesday 20th March 2024 

HIW review and shortlist EOIs: 21st to 28th March 2024 

Shortlisted organisations attend a meeting with HIW: April 2024  

RWE selection completed: No later than 26th April 2024 

Eligibility  

You are eligible to apply for the RWE Programme if you meet the following criteria:   

1. You are a health and care provider or university operating within Dorset ICS or Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS (our members). 
2. The RWE will be undertaken at a site in Dorset or Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
3. The RWE would not duplicate or conflict with work that is being undertaken by another organisation or health innovation network.  If you are unsure, please contact us before submitting an EOI.
4. Your organisation agrees in principle to Health Innovation Wessex undertaking an RWE.
5. Your organisation agrees in principle to an RWE commencing from April 2024 and completing by the end of March 2025.
6. The innovation that you wish to evaluate holds regulatory compliance as a medical device for the intended use in the RWE; or the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) / a medical device regulatory specialist has confirmed that the system does not fall within the definition of a medical device.
7. If applying for an RWE of a digital technology, HIW will ask that the innovator (industry or NHS) can demonstrate:
   a. Compliance with NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC), or actively working towards it, with an existing knowledge of the areas where the innovation may be currently non-compliant.
   b. Evidence from structured testing with real users in a test environment that the innovation functions as intended    and is safe to put into live use.
8. Your organisation is willing to work with HIW’s Communications team to capture your experiences of the RWE in the form of a case study and/or testimonial, and with HIW’s Insight team to support the dissemination of our findings from the RWE.
9. If you are already in discussions with Health Innovation Wessex about evaluation support for a project(s), please contact us before submitting an EOI. 

If you are not sure about your eligibility, please email your enquiry to insight@hiwessex.net