Social Value Engine helps NHS trusts, mental health services, and social care providers measure and report the social return on investment of prevention programmes, social prescribing, and community-based care initiatives using an accredited SROI methodology.
Who We Help: NHS
Quantify the full value of prevention, care, and wellbeing.
NHS trusts, Integrated Care Boards, and social care providers spend significant resources on programmes whose social value is difficult to capture in clinical metrics alone. The Social Value Engine provides the SROI framework to measure the social and economic return of your prevention, social prescribing, and wellbeing programmes in a way that holds up to scrutiny.
The challenge
Prevention, social prescribing and community health programmes can reduce isolation, improve mental wellbeing and support quality of life. NHS teams need a consistent way to assess these outcomes alongside clinical and activity data.
Social prescribing programmes support patients through non-clinical interventions. Demonstrating their social return and justifying continued investment requires a recognised measurement framework.
ICBs commission a growing proportion of care through voluntary and community organisations. Evidencing the social value of these partnerships is increasingly expected by NHSE and local system partners.
How SVE helps
Our proxy library includes NHS-referenced financial values for mental wellbeing, physical activity, social isolation, and quality of life, giving you credible, peer-reviewed figures to underpin your analysis.
Run SROI analyses for social prescribing link workers, arts on prescription, exercise referral, and community connector programmes, with outcomes mapped to validated wellbeing measures.
Align your social value evidence to the NHS Long-Term Plan, Core20PLUS5, and NHS Social Value Framework, supporting system-level reporting and accountability requirements.
Common use cases
With a lot of project schemes, it's important to be able to quantify the wider benefits of doing them, measuring the ability to give people a better quality of life ultimately. The metrics that are traditional within business case and project assessments are not always conducive to measuring that quality of life. The Social Value Engine can really bring this to life and start to quantify it.
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Guides and resources for your sector
Independent sign-off
NHS bodies and Integrated Care Boards are increasingly expected to demonstrate the social return of prevention and care investment to NHSE, system partners and boards. Assurance adds an accredited practitioner who independently reviews and signs off your methodology, proxy selection and final report, so the figures you present to your system hold up to scrutiny.
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