Qrios (pronounced ‘curious’) is a simple, light touch, but powerful insight system.
Turn strengths based conversations and community support into robust, system level evidence.
Qrios provides a consistent and credible way to understand:
- The nature of prevention and community activity.
- Impact on wellbeing and unmet need.
- Contribution to system sustainability and value for money.
This enables better, more confident decision making at place and system level.
Designed with commissioners, providers and communities, Qrios bridges the long standing gap between preventative activity and measurable impact.
Why Qrios?
Across public services, investment in prevention, early help and community support is growing.
But too often, this work:
- Cannot be clearly evidenced.
- Is undervalued in decision making.
- Remains vulnerable when resources are under pressure.
Qrios changes that.
It enables you to:
- Demonstrate how prevention improves wellbeing.
- Show how improved wellbeing supports independence and reduces demand.
- Identify unmet and emerging need in real time.
- Evidence the economic value of early support.
- Strengthen commissioning with credible, shared data.
- Build a system wide picture of impact across partners.
All without adding burden for staff or people.
Qrios doesn’t just describe good work.
It proves its value.
What Qrios does
Qrios is a secure, web-based system that captures anonymised insight at the point of contact. It records:
What matters
What matters to the person (their issue or challenge)
Support and action
What support or action takes place.
Experience
Feedback on experience.
Wellbeing
Self reported wellbeing before and after support.
The system is designed to enhance strengths based conversations, not replace them, capturing insight as a natural part of good practice.
Insight that drives better decisions
Qrios brings together a clear understanding of wellbeing with practical insight you can act on.
It supports better commissioning across place and system, works flexibly across partners, and is simple and light-touch to use, so evidence of prevention quickly turns into confident action.
Understanding wellbeing
Qrios is built on a strong, evidence-based understanding of wellbeing.
We know that:
- Prevention improves wellbeing.
- Wellbeing underpins health, resilience and independence.
- This reduces or delays the need for formal support.
Qrios brings this to life through a robust framework including:
- NDTi Wellbeing Framework
- ONS4 wellbeing measures
- WELLBY (Wellbeing-Adjusted Life Years) for economic valuation
It also captures key dimensions often missing from traditional data:
- Connection
- Control
- Coping
- Safety
- Support
These reflect the real conditions that enable people to live well. For example, relationships, autonomy, resilience and feeling safe.
Together, they help you understand not just what is changing, but why it matters.
Insight you can act on
From anecdote to actionable insight.
Qrios provides a live, interactive dashboard that tells you:
- What’s happening across your system.
- Where support is being accessed.
- The issues people are facing.
- How wellbeing changes over time.
- Variation by neighbourhood and population group.
This enables commissioners to:
- Identify gaps and inequalities.
- Target resources more effectively.
- Track impact against strategic priorities.
- Strengthen place based and population health approaches.
Supporting better commissioning
Helping shift prevention from 'nice to have' to 'essential system infrastructure'.
It supports:
- Outcomes-based and preventative commissioning
- Cross-sector partnership working
- Understanding return on investment through wellbeing data
- Stronger conversations with finance, transformation and elected members
Flexible and cross system
One tool, many partners, Qrios works seamlessly across place and system.
Qrios works across organisations and sectors. It can be used:
- By a single organisation or across a whole place.
- Across local authorities, VCSE, health, housing and beyond.
- Across prevention, early help, mental health, social care and community support.
It can be completed:
- During a conversation
- By an individual
- On behalf of someone else
Making it ideal for integrated, place-based systems.
Qrios is also flexible for areas to add in key questions of their own depending on local needs and priorities.
Simple to use
Light touch design built for real world delivery.
Qrios ensures consistency without burden:
- Completed in minutes.
- Mobile, tablet and desktop friendly.
- No personal identifiers collected.
- Paper options available.
Curious about Qrios?
Contact us to see how Qrios can help you evidence prevention and impact, and make confident, data-driven decisions.
FAQs
What actually is Qrios?
Qrios is a web based system created by NDTi to record and understand the difference that community conversations, activities and early interventions make to people’s wellbeing.
What's it for?
Qrios helps you evidence and demonstrate the value of preventative, community based work. It connects everyday conversations and support to measurable improvements in wellbeing, independence and system outcomes, so you can make informed decisions about investment and impact.
Who can use it?
Anyone with a login, whether that’s paid staff or volunteers, from any organisation or sector. Qrios is designed for collaboration, so everyone working in a place can contribute to a shared picture of prevention and wellbeing.
Is it easy to use?
Yes. Qrios is light touch and intuitive, designed to fit naturally into day to day practice. You can record a conversation in just a few minutes on a phone, tablet, or computer (or paper with details added later if you prefer).
What information does it record?
Qrios records the issue the person wants help with, what action was taken, and how they feel about their life and wellbeing. No names or personal identifiers are collected.
Qrios is a proprietary system developed by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi).
All content, frameworks and materials are the intellectual property of NDTi and may not be reproduced without permission.
Community Led Support
Qrios can be commissioned on its own or as part of the Community Led Support programme.
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