Written Question · S4W-15348 · Session 4
Against what (a) outcomes and (b) comparators the Family Nurse Partnership programme will be assessed and at what time intervals.
The question
To ask the Scottish Government against what (a) outcomes and (b) comparators the Family Nurse Partnership programme will be assessed and at what time intervals.
The answer
The FNP programme will be assessed on the following outcomes and time intervals:
(a) Outcomes associated with the programme have been defined in our monitoring and evaluation framework that supports the ongoing evaluation in Scotland. Since our last response to evaluation, we have subsequently produced the third interim evaluation report in December 2012, with the fourth interim evaluation report a summary report due in late September 2013.
Third interim evaluation report – infancy (publised on 21 December 2012):
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/12/4237/0
This was not an impact evaluation, however we have reported on, or intend to report on, routinely collected data on the following indicators which are the outcomes demonstrated in the United States research:
Smoking in pregnancy at 2 time points in pregnancy
Birthweight and gestational age of infants
Percentage of immunisations completed by children from birth to two years old.
Percentage of infants that are breastfed following birth and duration of breastfeeding
Number of Accident and Emergency visits and hospitilisations for injuries and ingestions for children birth to two years old
Number of subsenquent pregnancies and mean interval between first and second pregnancy
Number of month’s women participated in the workforce
Number of months families used other programmes (eg breastfeeding support, etc)
Involvement of fathers and other family members in the programme
There are also a range of key performance indicators that we expect each FNP site to report on periodically to demonstrate they are implementing the core model elements of the programme. These include use of data forms, learning events and supervision sessions.
(b) The comparators on which the Family Nurse Partnership programme could be assessed will be given due consideration once the full evaluation report is produced.
As part of the licensing agreement for FNP in Scotland, we are required to take cogniscance of the ongoing Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) in England. The first report on this is due early in 2014, and Scotland will be required to share similar data on the key outcomes and indicators on which the RCT is based.
(a) Outcomes associated with the programme have been defined in our monitoring and evaluation framework that supports the ongoing evaluation in Scotland. Since our last response to evaluation, we have subsequently produced the third interim evaluation report in December 2012, with the fourth interim evaluation report a summary report due in late September 2013.
Third interim evaluation report – infancy (publised on 21 December 2012):
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/12/4237/0
This was not an impact evaluation, however we have reported on, or intend to report on, routinely collected data on the following indicators which are the outcomes demonstrated in the United States research:
Smoking in pregnancy at 2 time points in pregnancy
Birthweight and gestational age of infants
Percentage of immunisations completed by children from birth to two years old.
Percentage of infants that are breastfed following birth and duration of breastfeeding
Number of Accident and Emergency visits and hospitilisations for injuries and ingestions for children birth to two years old
Number of subsenquent pregnancies and mean interval between first and second pregnancy
Number of month’s women participated in the workforce
Number of months families used other programmes (eg breastfeeding support, etc)
Involvement of fathers and other family members in the programme
There are also a range of key performance indicators that we expect each FNP site to report on periodically to demonstrate they are implementing the core model elements of the programme. These include use of data forms, learning events and supervision sessions.
(b) The comparators on which the Family Nurse Partnership programme could be assessed will be given due consideration once the full evaluation report is produced.
As part of the licensing agreement for FNP in Scotland, we are required to take cogniscance of the ongoing Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) in England. The first report on this is due early in 2014, and Scotland will be required to share similar data on the key outcomes and indicators on which the RCT is based.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S4W-15348 by reference.