What are Value Based Health Care Measures?

In order to support the ambition of improving person-centred health outcomes and use our resources more effectively, we need to ask people about their health experiences and outcomes from the interventions and care we provide. We do this by creating and using a data-driven system which seek to gather and provide timely information to citizens, clinical teams, and our organisation to inform the shared decision-making that leads to those outcomes. Delivering outcomes that matter most to patients is where the value in health and social care actually lies.

A VBHC approach means that patients will be asked how they feel and how their conditions impact on their lives before they come into hospital for an appointment or treatment and afterwards. This helps us to measure and monitor the changes which occur, and whether their health and impact on their lives has improved due to the care received. This helps to identify the care and treatment which has a positive impact on the patient and their health condition. It can also identify where low value care, which does not have a positive effect on the patient or condition, is being experienced.