NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme in England: formative evaluation of the programme in early phase implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Evaluation of the demonstrator phase and first wave roll-out of the National Health Service (NHS) Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP) in England. To examine: (1) intervention design, provision and fidelity assessment procedures; (2) risk assessment and recruitment pathways and (3) data collection for monitoring and evaluation. To provide recommendations informing decision makers on programme quality, improvements and future evaluation.

Design

We reviewed programme documents, mapping against the NHS DPP specification and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health guideline: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevention in people at high risk (PH38), conducted qualitative research using individual interviews and focus group discussions with stakeholde

SUBMITTER: Penn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855311 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature