Stage 1 Review
Project Complementary Therapies (Northern Care Alliance) By Lucy Boulter
- Title Complementary Therapies (Northern Care Alliance)
- Setting Hospital
- Objective The vision is to encourage and incorporate the use of complimentary therapies within the services we provide across the Northern Care Alliance. The Complimentary Therapy programme will have positive impact on our service users and colleagues physical, mental and emotional recovery or wellbeing
Beneficiaries
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Staff
Improved staff wellbeing
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Volunteers
Improved wellbeing and feelings that they have made a difference through their role. Volunteers developing a new and unique skillset that supports their personal & professional development
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Organisation
Improved patient and staff experience. Increased Trust efficiency
Audiences
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Senior Leadership
See the difference the programme is making to staff and the organisation
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Donor / funder
See the difference the programme is making to staff and the organisation
Review Design
Project Complementary Therapies (Northern Care Alliance) By Lucy Boulter
Outcome model
Data model
Data Collection Dashboard
Project Complementary Therapies (Northern Care Alliance) By Lucy Boulter
This project has now completed. Please navigate to the 'Evaluate' stage.
Evaluation Dashboard
Project Complementary Therapies (Northern Care Alliance) By Lucy Boulter
Evaluation findings - June 2025
With a vision to encourage and incorporate the use of arts, creativity, and complementary therapies within the services provided across the Northern Care Alliance, the volunteering team introduced two new volunteer programmes – Arts in Health and Complementary Therapies. These programmes aimed to have a positive impact on service users and colleagues physical, mental and emotional recovery or wellbeing.
In January 2023, Helpforce Insight and Impact team partnered with NCA to evaluate these two initiatives. The findings below detail the final analysis of the Complementary Therapies service, completed in June 2025. This service provided various treatments to staff across their trusts four health care organisations. The treatments were provided by a small number of volunteers, and also a number of staff members who volunteered their time to give back to the trust and their colleagues.
