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Social Value for NHS and Social Care

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

What organisations in your sector face

Moving beyond activity data

NHS reporting focuses on clinical outputs. But the real value of prevention, social prescribing, and community health lies in the social outcomes produced: reduced isolation, improved mental wellbeing, and better quality of life. These are harder to evidence without the right tools.

Demonstrating value of social prescribing

Social prescribing programmes support patients through non-clinical interventions. Demonstrating their social return and justifying continued investment requires a recognised measurement framework.

VCSE partnership accountability

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

Built for how you work

SROI for health and wellbeing outcomes

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.

Social prescribing programme evaluation

Run SROI analyses for social prescribing link workers, arts on prescription, exercise referral, and community connector programmes, with outcomes mapped to validated wellbeing measures.

ICB and NHSE reporting alignment

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

What organisations like yours measure

  • SROI for social prescribing and link worker programmes
  • Measuring value of mental health community support services
  • Evidencing prevention programme return to NHSE and ICBs
  • Evaluating arts, sport, and culture on prescription
  • Measuring outcomes of community health and wellbeing hubs
  • Social value reporting for integrated care partnerships
  • Evidencing VCSE partner social returns for commissioning
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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.

Mark Platts
Director of Finance, Digital & Estates, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Evidence the full value of your health and care investment

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