This is the first in a series of papers from the Greater Manchester Public Health Practice Unit aimed at assisting healthcare professionals.

This paper aims to give users, through a series of straightforward and simple steps, a framework to enable a more efficient method of carrying out evaluation.

Evaluation can be used to assess a range of projects and studies with a whole wealth of documents in existence that outline and guide individuals and services who wish to undertake service evaluations. This paper aims to signpost users to relevant
documents to ensure high quality and consistency across Greater Manchester when evaluations are being planned, implemented, carried out and acted upon. It is hoped this document will provide an easy reference guide as well as a benchmark to which
users can measure the quality of their evaluations.