ABSTRACT
Evaluation can serve two main purposes. Internal evaluation establishes whether and how a project is working. External evaluation is chiefly concerned with whether a project works and provides value for money. The Deep End Project provides a case study on the role of general practice (GP) in delivering health care in very deprived areas. Evaluation of the Deep End would need to include both a project and a system perspective. The chapter describes some of the evaluation questions that can help realize the potential of the learnings from the Deep End Project. It highlights some of the ways in which thinking evaluatively about Deep End can be helpful. Deep End is based on the deceptively simple idea that creating an ongoing dialogue space, in which there are opportunities to learn from the experiences and insights of the general practitioners, can help with the transformation of the health system.
