Project
| ID | INDIGO-POJ-0120 |
|---|---|
| Impact Bond Name - (Value) | Ways to Wellness |
| Stage of Development - (Value) | Complete |
| Stage of Development - (Source ID's) | source4 |
| Dates - Date outcomes contract signed - (Value) | 2015-03 |
| Dates - Anticipated completion date - (Value) | 2022-03 |
| Dates - Actual completion date - (Value) | 2022-10 |
| Dates - Start date of service provision - (Value) | 2015-04 |
| Dates - Anticipated duration of service provision - (Value) | 84 |
| Dates - Actual duration of service provision - (Value) | 74 |
| Dates - (Source ID's) | source26 |
| Overall project finance - Total investment commitment - Currency - (Value) | GBP |
| Overall project finance - Total investment commitment - Amount - Exact - (Value) | 1650000 |
| Overall project finance - Total investment commitment - Amount USD - Exact - (Value) | 2520833.239 |
| Overall project finance - (Notes) | Type of investment: Quasi-Equity (working capital) with 84 month term. |
| Purpose and classifications - Social challenge - (Value) | This funding will be used for a social impact bond (SIB) designed to motivate up to 8,000 older people to take up healthy activities. |
| Purpose and classifications - Intervention - (Value) | Ways to Wellness comprises a "hub" model of working in which a non-medical link worker trained in behaviour change methods offers a holistic and personalised service to identify meaningful health and wellness goals, as well as connecting clients, when indicated, to community and voluntary groups and resources. The service comprises: (a) individual assessment, motivational interviewing and action planning, (b) completion of an initial Wellbeing Star assessment and subsequent Wellbeing Stars every six months thereafter to the duration of the intervention, (c) help to access community services (e.g. welfare rights advice, walking groups, physical activity classes, arts groups, continuing education), (d) promotion of volunteering opportunities, and (e) promotion of improved self-care and sustained behavioural changes related to healthier lifestyle choices. |
| Purpose and classifications - Policy sector - (Value) | Health |
| Purpose and classifications - (Source ID's) | source19,source1 |
| Service and beneficiaries - Target population - (Value) | People with long-term health conditions (such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder, Asthma, Diabetes Type 1 or 2, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, or Epilepsy), social isolation, frequent attenders at GP or hospitals due to poor understanding of condition, anxiety or depression (in addition to a long-term condition), poor health but with scope to improve with lifestyle change, poor English literacy. They must be aged 40-74 and living in areas of Newcastle West which experience high socio-economic deprivation. |
| Service and beneficiaries - Targeted number of unique service users or beneficiaries (total) - (Value) | 8500 |
| Service and beneficiaries - Unit type of targeted service users or beneficiaries - (Value) | Individual |
| Service and beneficiaries - Actual number of unique service users or beneficiaries engaged (total) - (Value) | 8500 |
| Service and beneficiaries - (Source ID's) | source21 |
| Notes - (Value) | During the start up phase, the WtW and Cabinet Office paid 70% of payments for Outcome A with the CCG paying 30% to share the risk. Providers are paid on non-outcome tasks (listed in outcomes section) in an effort to ensure VCSEs and SMEs are not excluded by the financial barriers to entry, and to reduce the likelihood of providers "gaming" the system. |
| Outcome Funds 1: Id | INDIGO-FUND-0003 |
| Outcome Funds 2: Id | INDIGO-FUND-0004 |
| Delivery Locations 1: Service Provision ID - (Value) | deliverylocation1 |
| Delivery Locations 1: Location - Name - (Value) | North East: Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| Delivery Locations 1: Location - Country - (Value) | GB |
| Delivery Locations 1: Lat/Lng - Lat - (Value) | 54.978351 |
| Delivery Locations 1: Lat/Lng - Lng - (Value) | -1.622662 |
| Sources 1: Id | source1 |
| Sources 1: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015) |
| Sources 2: Id | source2 |
| Sources 2: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 2 |
| Sources 3: Id | source3 |
| Sources 3: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015) Page 3 |
| Sources 4: Id | source4 |
| Sources 4: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 6 |
| Sources 5: Id | source5 |
| Sources 5: Name - (Value) | Big Lottery Fund, 'Commissioning Better Outcomes: Awards from July 2013 to November 2018', (Big Lottery Fund, 2018) |
| Sources 6: Id | source6 |
| Sources 6: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015) Page 2 |
| Sources 7: Id | source7 |
| Sources 7: Name - (Value) | Individual websites for charities |
| Sources 8: Id | source8 |
| Sources 8: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 11 |
| Sources 9: Id | source9 |
| Sources 9: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 4 |
| Sources 10: Id | source10 |
| Sources 10: Name - (Value) | Big Society Capital, 'Dataset of front-line level social investment transactions enabled by Big Society Capital', (Big Society Capital, 2016) |
| Sources 11: Id | source11 |
| Sources 11: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 11; Ways to Wellness, 'How we are financed and funded', Webpage, 2019, https://waystowellness.org.uk/about/finance-and-funding/; |
| Sources 12: Id | source12 |
| Sources 12: Name - (Value) | Ways to Wellness, 'How we are financed and funded', Webpage, 2019, https://waystowellness.org.uk/about/finance-and-funding/; Big Lottery Fund, 'Commissioning Better Outcomes: Awards from July 2013 to November 2018', (Big Lottery Fund, 2018); Tom Keighley, "First £500,000 leaves North East Social Investment Fund under Peter Gilson's leadership", The Journal (17 May 2015) http://www.thejournal.co.uk/business/business-news/first-500000-leaves-north-east-9265756; James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 5; Ways to Wellness, 'E-bulletin 8 - September 2013', Webpage, 2014, https://waystowellness.org.uk/news/2014/01/e-bulletin-8-september-2013/; Ways to Wellness, 'Ways to Wellness continues to deliver strong results', Webapge, 2018, https://waystowellness.org.uk/news/2018/07/ways-to-wellness-latest-news-july-2018/ |
| Sources 13: Id | source13 |
| Sources 13: Name - (Value) | Own calculation, based on Ways to Wellness, 'How we are financed and funded', Webpage, 2019, https://waystowellness.org.uk/about/finance-and-funding/; Big Lottery Fund, 'Commissioning Better Outcomes: Awards from July 2013 to November 2018', (Big Lottery Fund, 2018); Tom Keighley, "First £500,000 leaves North East Social Investment Fund under Peter Gilson's leadership", The Journal (17 May 2015) http://www.thejournal.co.uk/business/business-news/first-500000-leaves-north-east-9265756; James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 5 |
| Sources 14: Id | source15 |
| Sources 14: Name - (Value) | Commissioning Better Outcomes (CBO) fund evaluation, 'CBO health event: Learning from a Live SIB: Ways to Wellness SIB', Workshop, 11 February 2016; Guy Pilkington, 'The Learning Environment: Study - Ways to Wellness Social Proscribing Scheme', NHS England, Nov 2017, https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/len-case-study-ways-to-wellness.pdf |
| Sources 15: Id | source16 |
| Sources 15: Name - (Value) | Own calculation, based on Commissioning Better Outcomes (CBO) fund evaluation, 'CBO health event: Learning from a Live SIB: Ways to Wellness SIB', Workshop, 11 February 2016; Guy Pilkington, 'The Learning Environment: Study - Ways to Wellness Social Proscribing Scheme', NHS England, Nov 2017, https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/len-case-study-ways-to-wellness.pdf |
| Sources 16: Id | source17 |
| Sources 16: Name - (Value) | Ways to Wellness, 'Ways to Wellness continues to deliver strong results', Webpage, 11 July 2018, https://waystowellness.org.uk/news/2018/08/ways-to-wellness-latest-news-july-2018 |
| Sources 17: Id | source18 |
| Sources 17: Name - (Value) | (Care and De Lisa, 2019) Social Impact Bonds for a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Enabling Factors Page 10 |
| Sources 18: Id | source19 |
| Sources 18: Name - (Value) | Katy Laing et al., "It was the turning point in my life": How Ways to Wellness social prescribing is improving the health and wellbeing of people with long term conditions' (Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, 2017), page 2 |
| Sources 19: Id | source20 |
| Sources 19: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), pages 3-5 |
| Sources 20: Id | source21 |
| Sources 20: Name - (Value) | Guy Pilkington, 'The Learning Environment: Study - Ways to Wellness Social Proscribing Scheme', NHS England, Nov 2017, https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/len-case-study-ways-to-wellness.pdf |
| Sources 21: Id | source22 |
| Sources 21: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 5 |
| Sources 22: Id | source24 |
| Sources 22: Name - (Value) | James Ronicle & Neil Stanworth, 'Ways to Wellness Deep Dive Report: CBO Fund Evaluation' (Ecorys, 2015), page 3 |
| Sources 23: Id | sourcehackandlearn2021-08 |
| Sources 23: Name - (Value) | Hack and Learn - August 2021 |
| Sources 24: Id | source25 |
| Sources 24: Name - (Value) | Email exchange with Bridges Fund Management |
| Sources 25: Id | source26 |
| Sources 25: Name - (Value) | CBO project updates 2023/10 |
| Service Provisions 1: Id | serviceprovision1 |
| Service Provisions 1: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0488 |
| Service Provisions 2: Id | serviceprovision2 |
| Service Provisions 2: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0489 |
| Service Provisions 3: Id | serviceprovision3 |
| Service Provisions 3: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0490 |
| Service Provisions 4: Id | serviceprovision4 |
| Service Provisions 4: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0378 |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 1: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0495 |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 1: Maximum potential Outcome payment - Amount - (Value) | 5200000 |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 2: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0306 |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 2: Maximum potential Outcome payment - Amount - (Value) | 2000000 |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 3: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0115 |
| Outcome Payment Commitments 3: Maximum potential Outcome payment - Amount - (Value) | 1000000 |
| Investments 1: Id | investment1 |
| Investments 1: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1304 |
| Investments 2: Id | investment2 |
| Investments 2: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0268 |
| Investments 3: Id | investment3 |
| Investments 3: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1305 |
| Investments 4: Id | investment4 |
| Investments 4: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0049 |
| Investments 5: Id | investment5 |
| Investments 5: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0547 |
| Investments 6: Id | investment6 |
| Investments 6: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1306 |
| Investments 7: Id | investment7 |
| Investments 7: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1222 |
| Investments 8: Id | investment8 |
| Investments 8: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0641 |
| Investments 9: Id | investment9 |
| Investments 9: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0303 |
| Investments 10: Id | investment10 |
| Investments 10: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1307 |
| Investments 11: Id | investment11 |
| Investments 11: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1221 |
| Investments 12: Id | investment12 |
| Investments 12: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1308 |
| Investments 13: Id | investment13 |
| Investments 13: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1309 |
| Investments 14: Id | investment14 |
| Investments 14: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-1295 |
| Intermediary services 1: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0491 |
| Intermediary services 1: Organisation Role Category - (Value) | Performance management |
| Intermediary services 2: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0121 |
| Intermediary services 2: Organisation Role Category - (Value) | Other |
| Intermediary services 2: Other Role Description - (Value) | Fund Management |
| Intermediary services 3: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0492 |
| Intermediary services 4: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0063 |
| Intermediary services 5: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0493 |
| Intermediary services 6: Organisation ID - (Value) | INDIGO-ORG-0494 |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Id | outcomemetric1 |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Outcome Definition - (Value) | Outcome A: Improved self-management of long term conditions (LTC) leading to greater sense of well-being, reduced social isolation and fewer GP visits. Improved self-management of long-term condition leading to a greater sense of well-being, reduced social isolation and fewer GP visits (30% of outcome payment). 8,500 targeted service users. |
| Outcome Metrics 1: Primary SDG goal - (Value) | 3 |
| Outcome Metrics 2: Id | outcomemetric2 |
| Outcome Metrics 2: Outcome Definition - (Value) | Outcome A, Metric 1: Payments on sliding scale based on 6-month completions of Traingle Consulting's Wellbeing Star after initial assessment. 100% of payments made if the latest Wellbeing Star completed is, on average, 1.4 points higher than the initial star. This reduces down to 0% if the point increase is less than 0.5. |
| Outcome Metrics 2: Primary SDG goal - (Value) | 3 |
| Outcome Metrics 3: Id | outcomemetric4 |
| Outcome Metrics 3: Outcome Definition - (Value) | Outcome B: Reduced cost of secondary healthcare services as a result of improvement in self-management of long term conditions (LTC). Reduction in cost of use of hospital services (reductions in GP visits are not counted because these services fall to NHS England, not the CCG), planned and unplanned admissions, use of out-patient and A&E services (70% of outcome payment). Counterfactual analysis completed - secondary care costs of patients in Newcastle West compared to patients with similar characteristics in Newcastle North and East using Hospital Episode Statistics from the North East Commissioning Service. |
| Outcome Metrics 3: Primary SDG goal - (Value) | 3 |
| Outcome Metrics 4: Id | outcomemetric5 |
| Outcome Metrics 4: Outcome Definition - (Value) | Outcome B, Metric 1: Measured reduction in average cost per patient of secondary care usage by this cohort compared to control group. Outcomes will be evidenced after 24 months. Full benefits measured over five years. |
| Outcome Metrics 4: Primary SDG goal - (Value) | 3 |
| Results 1: Outcome Metric Id - (Value) | outcomemetric1 |
| Results 1: Result level - (Value) | Outcome level |
| Results 1: Result type - (Value) | Interim |
| Results 1: Period - Start - (Value) | 2015-07 |
| Results 1: Period - End - (Value) | 2019-01 |
| Results 1: Number engaged In impact bond - (Value) | 3600 (as of Jan 2019) |
| Documents 1: Title - (Value) | Evaluation of the Social Impact Bond Trailblazers in Health and Social Care |
| Documents 1: URL - (Value) | https://golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank/resource-library/sib-trailblazers-health-and-social-care-final-report/ |
| Documents 2: Title - (Value) | Ways to Wellness - Case Study |
| Documents 2: URL - (Value) | https://golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank/case-studies/ways-wellness/ |
| Documents 3: Title - (Value) | Ways to Wellness - First in depth report |
| Documents 3: URL - (Value) | https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/media/research-documents/social-investment/CBO_ways_to_wellness_report_190320_122441.pdf?mtime=20190320122441 |
| Documents 4: Title - (Value) | Ways to Wellness - Second in depth report |
| Documents 4: URL - (Value) | https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/media/research-documents/social-investment/CBO_ways_to_wellness_second_report.pdf?mtime=20210727162600&focal=none |
| Documents 5: Title - (Value) | Commissioning Better Outcomes Evaluation - 3rd Update Report - May 2022 |
| Documents 5: URL - (Value) | https://golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/documents/CBO-3rd-update-report.pdf |
| Documents 6: Title - (Value) | Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study |
| Documents 6: URL - (Value) | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK592221/ |