Meaningful Measures Ltd has published a new independent evaluation of the Mendip Nature Connections project, revealing significant improvements in mental wellbeing, reduced anxiety, and stronger social connection among participants. Commissioned by the Mendip Hills National Landscape team, the evaluation assessed the impact of the programme deliver...
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As we come to the end of 2025, everyone at Meaningful Measures would like to wish you a very warm and restful Christmas. We are deeply grateful to our MYCaW® and MYMOP® licence holders (paper and digital), our evaluation consultancy partners, the Health Innovation Network, and our digital platform collaborators for your trust, collaboration, ...
We are thrilled to announce a brand new partnership between Meaningful Measures and Lamplight: a leading platform that supports organisations to manage and measure outcomes This new partnerships means that charities across the whole country can now access our award-winning, accredited tools MYCaW® (Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing) and MYMOP...
The Meaningful Measures team is absolutely thrilled to share some wonderful news: our co-founder, Dr Marie Polley, has been awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours for her exceptional services to social prescribing and for co-founding the Social Prescribing Network. This is a thoroughly well-deserved recognition of Marie's tireless ...
For many years Meaningful Measures Ltd has been supporting the The Wildlife Trusts develop and evaluate their community organising approach. This approach aims to empower people to support nature's recovery in their own communities. We had the pleasure of evaluating Avon Wildlife Trust's Nextdoor Nature programme in early 2025. To...
Last week, Meaningful Measures Ltd had the pleasure of exhibiting at the NHS Confed Expo 2025 in Manchester. This landmark event was supported by the Health Innovation Network and attended by thousands of NHS professionals, policymakers, and innovators like us. We were proud and very excited to be one of 18 selected innovators showcased in the Inno...
The South West Integrated Personalised Care (SWIPC) Awards 2024, held at The Bishop's Palace in Wells on February 27th, brought together a multitude of distinguished guests to celebrate excellence in integrated and personalized care. Among the honorees was Meaningful Measures Ltd., who, in partnership with NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly community...
In 2021 The Wildlife Trusts (TWT) committed to an ambitious 10-year strategy, with part of this being a community organising programme to engage and empower people to act for nature's recovery - this approach was initially called "Team Wilder". Meaningful Measures Ltd was commissioned to evaluate the impact of pilot sites of Team Wilder. The ...
Our latest report using MYCaW® evaluated the service provided by a Personalised Care Team (PCT) dedicated to refugee and asylum seekers in Sussex. It was embedded within a wider Refugee and Asylum Seeker Service hosted by a GP federation, Alliance for Better Care CIC, providing an acute primary care response 7 days a week to refugees and asylum see...
On Friday 13th September the RCCM held its annual conference, this year the event was online. Meaningful Measures was proud to sponsor this event. The conference was attended by over 40 delegates representing researchers and practitioners who work in the area of complementary and integrative practice. There was a fantastic keynote speech from Dr Ja...
Perci Health is a virtual care clinic connecting people living with cancer, and their caregivers, to a team of multidisciplinary cancer experts. They provide 1-to-1 appointments with NHS-trained cancer specialists and expert-led content for every stage of the journey. Perci bridges the gap between cancer and wellness, providing access to a complete...
On the 7th of August we celebrated 4 years of becoming incorporated so we looked at back at what we've achieved at Meaningful Measures Ltd in that time. Meaningful Measures Ltd was created when, on her retirement in 2020, Dr Paterson suggested that Dr Polley and Dr Seers become the new owners of MYMOP and MYCaW. Since then the team has grown to inc...
In February 2023, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System introduced teams of "Community Health and Wellbeing Workers" (CHWW) to support underserved communities with the aim of building relationships and identifying people's needs. The initial pilot has now been extended to run for a minimum five years, working in the Kerrier area of Co...
Meaningful Measures Ltd is delighted to have been commissioned by the Diocese of Bristol to conduct a comprehensive survey aimed at understanding people's views of the Church of England churches and the use of church spaces within the local community. The survey is being conducted in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Wiltshire, and Swindon whic...
North Central London Integrated Care System is a partnership of NHS, councils, and voluntary sector organisations, working together to improve health and care in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington, which includes supporting people living with long-term conditions. As part of a new service for people living with long-term conditions, N...
Last week we joined Endometriosis UK and Menstrual Cycle Support at their event to mark Endometriosis Action Month and to launch their digital menstrual health and education platform for teenagers. In 2022 Meaningful Measures Ltd partnered with Menstrual Cycle Support, the world's first non-clinical menstrual health service to be available on refer...
On the 13th March, our own Dr Marie Polley attended a Social Prescribing Roundtable at The Kings Fund in London, hosted by Dr Micheal Dixon, A GP and previous NHS England Clinical lead for Social Prescribing and The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullaly, Bishop of London. The roundtable brought together a wide range of Faith leaders&nbs...
Frailty is described by NHS England as 'a loss of resilience that means people don't bounce back quickly after a physical or mental illness, an accident or other stressful event'(1). It affects approximately 10% of people aged over 65 years and 25% of people over 85 years with these figures expected to double by 2045(2). Gloucestershire Integrated ...
We are really happy to see our recent paper 'Developing a framework of concerns from people living with frailty, for the Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing (MYCaW®) person-centred outcome measure' published in BMJ Open Quality. The project was a collaboration between Meaningful Measures Ltd and Health Innovation Wessex who were commissio...
In a significant development, Joy, a leading digital preventative healthcare platform, has partnered with Meaningful Measures to integrate our MYCaW® questionnaire into its platform. Joy, trusted by 1 in 5 GP practices around the UK, works across the patient journey, from triaging through to intervention to reduce pressure on GPs and support Person...
