Whilst ongoing reflection with the staff directly involved in the delivery of care using the LCP is of paramount importance, it is also useful to take the opportunity to reflect in a more formal, quantitative way once a sizeable amount of pathways have been used within the pilot sites. The LCP Central Team offer assistance to participating organisations to audit the first 20 LCPs used in the pilot site(s) in order to provide tangible feedback that can be disseminated more widely to key staff and highlight any improvements in the environment since the implementation of the LCP. The information gained from the audit can point to areas where further education or training would be useful and can lead to appropriate amendments to the ongoing education programme. It can also provide useful information about organisational issues, such as the availability (or otherwise) of resources, something that may need to be addressed in order to facilitate the delivery of high quality care.

The feedback report is of a similar format to that of the Base Review and is returned to organisations within 4/6 weeks. The reports are designed to provide useful information in an accessible and easily interpretable format, using bar charts to illustrate the proportion of ‘achieved' (goal met), ‘variance' (goal not met) and ‘not applicable' coded on the pathway at the time of delivery of care, along with the proportion of missing data (i.e. nothing coded on the pathway against that particular goal).

This element of evaluation will inform the direction of education development for the future.