Gaining REAL insight on risk

What do you get when you mix personalised health and social care, a collaborative enquiry approach and practitioners from across the Lothians? The answer is the REAL programme, looking at a ‘Risk Enablement Approach in the Lothians’.

Fears that risk-aversion was frustrating the move towards more personalised services led to a small steering group from the NHS, local authorities and the third sector establishing the REAL programme. Loosely based on a collaborative enquiry approach, the team developed and delivered three well received events investigating risk enablement in late 2014 and early 2015.

Animate partner Richard Hamer was embedded in the programme’s steering group as they developed their approach and held the events. Our evaluation of the success of the REAL approach, and a guide for those wishing to repeat it in their area, are available below:

Animate Consulting – evaluation of the REAL programme – June 2015

Animate Consulting – REAL Facilitators Guide