Health Needs Assessment Toolkit

The following is an example for you:
What is the problem?
High incidence of post-natal depression
What is currently being done?
GP’s prescribing anti-depressants and some support from Health Visitors
Where do we want to be?
Lower incidence of post-natal depression and earlier identification
What could be done? What are the options?
Identify evidence based interventions
Multi-disciplinary training
Protocol for identifcation and management
Information and Education ante-nataly
Screening using EPDS
Specific training
Support group
Use of voluntary sector for support eg. Home-start
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
What are we going to do?
Who is going to do it?
By when?
How shall we monitor progress?
How are we going to evaluate?
Audit and Evaluation
Audit the project as you progress, follow the audit cycle – refer to flow chart.
On the flow chart no. 2 is the baseline measure, no. 4 refers to the project
plan and no. 6 is the point at which you decide whether you have met your
aim.
Following the audit cycle will enable you to evaluate the work easily once
complete.
Write up a simple evaluation to demonstrate whether your project has been
successful or not. The evaluation should state what was successful, what was
not successful and why, and how you might do differently in future.
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