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Measuring Outcomes: How far can SOAs take us?
Monday 2nd March 2009
CoSLA Conference Centre, Haymarket, Edinburgh

Single Outcome Agreements are already one of the big acronyms of Scottish Government and set the relationship between central government and local governance in the widest sense.

As both national and local ‘outcome’ indicators have been discussed in each area, policy has inevitably developed through major national frameworks.

A workable national system of this scale faces a difficult balance to cover a wide range of outcomes and still be workable. Complexity fights against practicality and sustainability. It is inevitable that ‘successful’ agreements will be selective, choosing priority outcomes and a sample of indicators.

This leaves a wider question for providers, and national funders, who need to know about the effectiveness and quality of all their services to manage them well.

This is the issue the seminar seeks to explore – how far can SOAs take us in measuring outcomes, where do they reside in relation to the ‘big picture’ and what else is needed?

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How are Council’s doing with SOAs? (PowerPoint file)
Colin Mair, Improvement Service

Developing a Strategic Framework in England (PowerPoint file)
Simon Medcalf, Department of Health

What SOAs provide and what else is needed
Arthur Midwinter
Download the Single Outcome Agreements paper (MS Word doc)

Below the waterline? - how the Community Care Outcomes
approach articulates with SOAs, NHS HEAT and the National
Performance Framework (PowerPoint file)
Chris Bruce, Scottish Government
Download the Outcomes Framework for Community Care (MS Word doc)

“Above and below the waterline” – Buoyancy tools for health
improvement outcomes! (PowerPoint file)
Della Thomas and Neil Craig, NHS Health Scotland

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