The challenge of monitoring benefit

In launching his review, Sir Michael Marmot called on councils to improve monitoring, evaluating and sharing of evidence from their health inequalities work.

Local authorities are undoubtedly thorough record keepers - but it is a whole lot easier to record how many people receive services than how much they have actually benefited from them.

Traditionally, public sector organisations have lacked an understanding of how to develop an approach to benefits realisation for the services they provide and ensure they are measuring the right things to assess the return on public investment.

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