Overview
Addressing health systems that are becoming strained beyond capacity, this course looks at reducing costs while driving forward improved patient outcomes.
Handling the increasing pressures on healthcare systems along with delivering value is an issue of increasing concern to health managers. Despite this, value-based healthcare is a concept that is widely misunderstood and poorly applied.
A framework focused on creating value for patients, value-based healthcare identifies value by reducing costs while driving improved health outcomes for patients. Rooted in evidence, it measures health outcomes against the cost of delivering them. Ultimately, it prevents investment in areas that will not generate value for patients, thus saving healthcare organisations money.
This course delivers participants an in depth understanding of value-based healthcare, value-based payments and decision science. Providing both knowledge and the fundamentals of applying key tools, this course will equip you with highly practical skills that can be applied directly to the workplace.
What’s involved
- Designed and delivered by experts in the field, this course will give you an in depth understanding of value-based healthcare and how it could transform your organisation.
- In particular, you’ll learn about health assessment techniques as well as a breadth of theory about value-based healthcare and models for calculating value. You’ll look at real case studies, including where the NHS currently is in relation to value-based healthcare, and learn about the current issues facing commissioners and decision makers. The course will also explore value-based payments, which includes topics such as value-based pricing, outcome-based payments and pricing innovations to get market access. Finally, you’ll learn about decision science and behaviour change with regards to gaining value for healthcare organisations.
- You’ll learn the nuts and bolts of value-based healthcare in an action learning environment, where content is delivered as a tool to provoke discussion and make you think about your own healthcare organisation. A safe space for healthcare professionals to come together, you will have ample opportunity to ask questions, share thoughts and seek insights from both the instructors and your peers.
Who the programme is for
Our Value-Based Healthcare short course is for leaders across the health and healthcare sector, who have a need to advance their understanding of value-based healthcare. You may work in human resources, in a clinical setting, policymaking or healthcare management. Or you may work in an industry related to health that requires an understanding of value-based healthcare.
Programme curriculum
This course is based on a contextualised approach to learning, with online lectures delivered by the course lead and UCL academics. This is supplemented by reading, participant discussion questions and marked assignments. Much of the learning will be directed through real world case studies and project-based learning from your course lead, who is an expert in value-based healthcare.
You’ll learn material paced across three modules over a total of six weeks. Each module involves approximately 10 to 12 hours of content, which includes videos, reading, discussion forum activities and project assignments. A weekly session with the course lead also provides an opportunity to pull learning together and get involved in group discussion.
Throughout the course, you will complete self-assessments such as multiple choice quizzes and unmarked self-reflection exercises to help you work through the material. To receive a certificate of completion for this course, you will complete all the marked assignments for each module, which includes a mandatory discussion forum, short written assignments and a final project.
