Value Based Health Care study/VBHC V1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Realist and Social Return on Investment evaluation of the use of Patient Reported Outcomes in Value Based Healthcare Programmes
IRAS ID
309092
Contact name
Gareth Roberts
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
ANEURIN BEVAN UNIVERSITY LOCAL HEALTH BOARD, HEADQUARTERS – ST CADOC’S HOSPITAL
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
Value Based Healthcare is about putting what matters to patients first. By doing this the NHS is in a better position to address the challenges it faces now and in the future, in particular remaining sustainable.
Implemented by Welsh Government in 2019, the Value in Health Action plan is a series of interventions designed to help healthcare professionals better capture and understand what is really important to people and at the same time better support professionals to predict and manage the health of people in their care. A key component of Value Based Health Care is the Patient Reported Outcome Measure – a questionnaire designed to help patients better report their current health needs and to help the NHS systems better predict, triage and manage patients individual care.
ABUHB was the first health board to adapt the Value Based Health Care approach including Patient Reported Outcome Measure questionnaires for multiple diseases as routine in Wales. This has been accompanied by various system changes e.g. digital interfaces, communications with patients, redesign of routine clinical pathways and staff retraining. Yet due to the complexities of the Value in Health approaches and the multiple stakeholders involved we do not yet know what is working well, why it works well and what we might need to consider should Value Based Healthcare be scaled up as routine at a national level and work well for everybody. To answer these complex questions we will undertake a Realist and Social Return on Investment evaluation of the Patient Reported Outcome Measure questionnaires across three ‘tracer’ conditions – Parkinson’s, Epilepsy and Cataract. Outcomes will help us learn more about what is needed to adapt Value Based Health Care across more diseases and within systems that work differently to the adaptor health board – ABUHB.REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
22/WA/0044
Date of REC Opinion
22 Mar 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion