Training for Person-Centred Value-Based Health Care (PCVBHC)

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Key learning objectives

  • Understand the transformative potential of PCVBHC and its application across clinical practice, patient advocacy, policy-making, industry development and health care system management to elicit and use individual values, goals and preferences, and improve health outcomes and system efficiency and equitability.
  • Explore the fundamental principles and innovative methodologies that underpin PCVBHC, enabling you to incorporate these practices into clinical practice, strategic planning and operational frameworks.
  • Develop essential key skills such as eliciting and using values, goals and preferences, shared decision-making, and strategic planning to effectively implement PCVBHC within your respective sectors.
Register now for the PCVBHC online Training Programme starting in 16th September 2024.

Expected outcomes

By participating in this training programme, you will have the opportunity to:
  • Create a customised PCVBHC implementation project tailored to your organisation's specific needs, ensuring you have a practical and actionable strategy to bring back and integrate effectively.
  • Build connections with a diverse community of professionals dedicated to advancing PCVBHC across various sectors. Collaborate with experts to share insights, develop innovative strategies, and collectively advance PCVBHC principles, leading to holistic system enhancement.
  • Each stakeholder group will develop a comprehensive understanding of individual values, goals, and preferences within the context of PCVBHC, ensuring that care strategies align closely with each person's unique needs from their sector's perspective.
Whether you are a physician, dentist, nurse or allied health care professional, your role in delivering PCVBHC is crucial. By participating in this training programme, health care professionals can gain valuable insights into:
  • Strategies for understanding the values, goals, and preferences of individual patients.
  • Methods to ensure that patient values, goals, and preferences guide the care they receive.
  • Utilising these insights to promote health equity and address disparities in health care delivery.
  • Using patient data to enhance our understanding of the value of care provided.
Policy decision makers wield substantial influence in shaping the future of health care delivery. By participating in this training programme, you will acquire essential insights on:
  • Integrating Person-Centred Health Care, Value-Based Health Care, and Health Equity to implement Person-Centred Value-Based Health Care effectively.
  • Strategising how policymakers can drive the adoption of Person-Centred Value-Based Health Care through incentives, regulatory frameworks, and fostering organisational culture change.
  • Redesigning health information technology systems to optimally support the principles and practices of Person-Centred Value-Based Health Care.
At the core of PCVBHC are the voices and experiences of patients and their families. Patient advocates play a pivotal role in ensuring health care systems prioritise patient values, goals, and preferences. By participating in this training programme, you will gain valuable insights into:
  • The significance of focusing on people’s values, goals, and preferences in health care.
  • Methods for individuals to effectively express and advocate for their values, goals, and preferences within health care settings.
  • Strategies to integrate user-centred design into the development of pathways and services to better meet patient needs.
  • Approaches to ensure marginalized and vulnerable populations, such as indigenous communities, people with disabilities, and those experiencing homelessness, have opportunities to express their values, goals, and preferences in health care decision-making processes.
As a health care system leader, you hold a critical role in shaping organisational policies, workflows, and resource allocation strategies. By participating in this training programme, health care system leaders will gain valuable insights into:
  • Optimising resource allocation to ensure maximal value delivery within the health care system.
  • Utilising an understanding of patient values, goals, and preferences to foster the development of sustainable health care systems.
  • Aggregating data on people’s values, goals, and preferences to inform decision-making at both meso and macro levels, enhancing quality and guiding resource allocation.
  • Cultivating a culture of person-centredness within health care organisations to prioritise patient needs and preferences in all aspects of care delivery.
In an era of unprecedented scientific innovation and health care transformation, mastering the principles of PCVBHC is crucial for industry leaders. By participating in this training programme, you will gain actionable insights into leveraging PCVBHC to enhance your business strategy:
  • Understand how aligning with patients’ values, goals, and preferences can strengthen your value proposition to Health Technology Assessment agencies and payers.
  • Explore strategies for industry collaboration with health care providers to ensure medicines are used in accordance with patient preferences, promoting sustainable reimbursement practices.
  • Learn approaches to collaborate with payers and policymakers in developing reimbursement models that incentivise the attainment of patients’ health care goals.

Curriculum

The PCVBHC Training Programme consists of a fixed structure that will be repeated every month, combining pre-recorded lectures, live case study discussions and guided work to develop your own PCVBHC implementation project.
WeekFormatDelivery
Week 1Pre-recorded videos and
pre-reading material.		(i) The theories of Value-Based Health Care, Person-Centred Health Care and Health Equity and
(ii) mock consultation based on PCVBHC principles.
Week 2Pre-recorded video and
pre-reading material. 		(i) Approaches to support health literacy and
(ii) approaches to support goal setting and preference elicitation.
Week 3Live (virtual) case study discussion. Goal setting and preference elicitation in practice.
Week 4Live (virtual) study group session.Working with their study group to share the first part of their implementation project plans.
Week 5Pre-recorded video and pre-reading material.(i) Using shared decision making (SDM) in day to day practice and
(ii) setting shared goals and SDM that align care with personal values, goals, and preferences.
Week 6Pre-recorded video and
pre-reading material.		Implementing outcome and cost measurement in practice.
Week 7Live (virtual) case study discussion.Shared decision making in practice.
Week 8Live (virtual) study group session.Working with their study group to share the second part of their implementation project plans.
Week 9Pre-recorded video and
pre-reading material.		Person-centred approaches to pathway design. Allocating resources in a PCVBHC system.
Week 10Pre-recorded video and
pre-reading material.		(i) Changing the culture to enable PCVBHC implementation and
(ii) building PCVBHC partnerships.
Week 11Live (virtual) case study discussion.Using data in a PCVBHC system.
Week 12Live (virtual) study group session.Working with their study group to share the final part of their implementation project plans.
Week 13Pre-recorded video and
pre-reading material.		(i) Health care systems and PCVBHC,
(ii) Policy and PCVBHC and
(iii) Patient involvement in PCVBHC.
Week 14Pre-recorded video and
pre-reading material.		(i) Navigating PCVBHC: Insights into R&D, value proposition and overall health care system sustainability. and
(ii) Public-private partnerships in PCVBHC: benefits, trends, and strategies.
Supplementary ResourcesPodcasts(i) Transforming health care: Exploring NHS Wales' Journey from VBHC to PCVBHC.
(ii) Walk in their shoes: Patient insights into PCVBHC.
(iii) Navigating PCVBHC integration: Insights from Amgen's success story with NHS Wales.
(iv) Innovations in PCVBHC: Insights from leading researchers and implementers.
(v) Empowering Patient Voices: The Role of Advocacy in Person-Centered Value-Based Health Care.
Register now for the PCVBHC online Training Programme starting in 16th September 2024.

PCVBHC online Training Programme Faculty

The PCVBHC online Training Programme is currently led by a dynamic global team of experts spanning diverse sectors.
Ms Nicola Bedlington
Nicola Bedlington is the special advisor to the European Patients’ Forum, and was its first Executive Director and Secretary General from 2006 to 2019. Nicola was also the founding Director of the European Disability Forum, (1996 to 1999). Prior to this, she headed the NGO unit within HELIOS, a European Commission Action Programme promoting equal opportunities for disabled people (1991-1996). From 2004 to 2006, she led the Environment and Schools Initiatives Secretariat (ENSI), an international government-based network set up by OECD focussing on Education for Sustainable Development. Nicola is based in Vienna, and has recently set up Millwater Partners, a consultancy company focused on health, engagement and sustainability.
Prof Pauline Boeckxstaens

Pauline Boeckxstaens is a family physician in the Community Health Centre ‘Botermarkt’ in Ghent, Belgium. She is also an assistant professor at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Ghent University where she is building a research program on goal-oriented care.

The combination of research with a clinical position as a family physician enables her to integrate her clinical and research expertise into a practice-based research program with a strong connection to local stakeholders and to the current reform of primary health care in Belgium. In 2014 she completed her PhD on the topic of multimorbidity. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in a Canadian study on patient centered innovations for people with multimorbidity. She was selected for the TUTOR-PHC program which is a one-year, pan-Canadian, interdisciplinary research capacity building program that has been training primary and integrated health care researchers and decision-makers from many disciplines since 2003. Building on strong local connections with stakeholders in health and welfare, she’s currently building a practice-based transdisciplinary research program on the operationalization and implementation of goal-oriented care across different settings. https://www.gocilc.org/

Prof Alf Collins

Alf Collins is NHS England’s Clinical Director, Personalised Care Group.

He was a community consultant in pain management and in parallel worked for a decade with the Health Foundation. He has researched and published widely on self-management support, shared decision making, care planning, co-production, patient activation and patient engagement.

He has honorary fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners and is a Visiting Professor at Coventry University.

Prof Dr Arie Franx

Arie Franx is a member of the steering committee on Value-Based Health Care at Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands. He works on Value-Based Health Care with the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centers, the Dutch Ministry of Health and the Netherlands Health care Institute. He was the chair of the global ICHOM Working Group developing the Pregnancy and Childbirth Standard Set of outcomes. Arie is co-founder and co-chairman of the Linnean Initiative (www.linnean.nl), a nationwide multidisciplinary network aiming to accelerate the implementation of Value-Based Health Care in the Netherlands. Arie holds an MD degree from the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands and a PhD degree from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Dr Tom Kelley

Thomas Kelley is current CEO of Sprink. Prior to this role, between 2018 and 2019, he was the National Clinical Advisor on Value- Based Health Care (VBHC) for the Welsh Government.

Between 2013 and 2018 he worked at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). He established the London office in 2014 and subsequently led ICHOM’s work in the EMEA region between 2014 and 2017. In 2017 he took overall responsibility for ICHOM’s day-to-day operations across its London and Boston offices. He also had global responsibility for ICHOM’s strategic partnerships.

Prior to working at ICHOM he practiced as a physician at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH).

He received his BSc and MD from the University of Manchester, UK and MBA from the University of Oxford, UK.

Dr Catherine Labinjoh
Catherine Labinjoh serves as a general cardiologist in NHS Forth Valley and holds the position of National Clinical Advisor for Realistic Medicine with the Scottish Government. In this role, she emphasizes shared decision-making between health care professionals and patients, promoting care tailored to individual needs and preferences. Additionally, she acts as the clinical lead for the Quality Improvement Hub in Forth Valley. Catherine is an elected member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, representing Tayside and Central Scotland. She plays a crucial role in the College’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Committee and serves as the clinical lead for Enhance, the College’s mentoring programme.
Prof Richard Lehman
Richard Lehman was Professor of the Shared Understanding of Medicine in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham until 2020. He was a general practitioner in Banbury for 37 years. For 20 years he compiled a weekly summary of articles from the principal medical journals which was posted on the BMJ website. After retirement from full-time general practice in 2010 he worked initially on studies of patient experiences, and spent a year at Yale University working on patient-centred outcomes and helping to set up the Yale Open Data Access (YODA) project. He remains a consultant to the group. He was guest editor for the Sharing Medicine series in JAMA Internal Medicine (Sep 2017) and is an editorial adviser for the journal. He retains a keen interest in promoting Value-Based Health Care based on trust and shared understanding.
Dr Sally Lewis

Sally Lewis is a GP and has front-line experience of primary care at its most challenging.

She entered a career in medical management in 2011 and was appointed to Assistant Medical Director for value-based care in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in 2014.

Since 2018, she has been leading the national value-based healthcare programme in Wales. She has established the Welsh Value in Health Centre which is now part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for VBHC. She is an Honorary Professor at Swansea School of Medicine.

Mr Sean Lybrand

Sean Lybrand is the Global Strategic Lead for Amgen’s Access to Medicines unit. He has over 20 years’ experience in health, having started his research and health outcomes-focused career in academia in Australia, preparing evidence-based reviews for the Cochrane Collaboration and undertaking health outcomes research in rheumatology.

Sean has considerable experience in developing multistakeholder collaborations, and has established a range of important partnerships in health, including with academic centres, digital health agencies, and national governments. A key personal highlight of his partnership work was the development and initiation of the first public-private partnership for HPV vaccination in the developing world- initiating a national program in a collaboration between Merck (MSD), the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation and the Royal Government of Bhutan, which is ongoing and has recently passed its 12th anniversary.

Sean was previously a Board member of the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation. Aside from his Amgen role, he has an appointment as Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for the Health Economy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and is a Health Executive in Residence at University College London’s Global Business School for Health.

He holds a BA, BSc and MPH from the University of Queensland (AU) and a Graduate Certificate in Health Economics from Curtin University (AU).

Dr Susannah Morris
Susannah Morris is a health consumer advocate and representative specialising in the field of cancer and health technology assessment. She is a social policy expert and former academic by profession who now works to improve the experiences and outcomes of health consumers, with a focus on person-centred, person-led and value-based care. As a social scientist Dr Morris is committed to evidence-based policy and as a health consumer she advocates for, and presents the perspectives of, those who may not have a voice. She is a consumer member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and a member of the Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee. In these roles she offers a health consumer perspective on and advises regarding consumer engagement with the Australian Government’s health HTA activities. Susannah has recently been appointed as a honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.
Dr María Navarro
María Navarro is a physician specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Master of Public Health and Master of Science (Harvard University). She also holds Master’s degrees in Communication Management and Strategic Management and Social Leadership. Currently, she is the Director of Patient and Family Empowerment at the Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital, Barcelona. She has held the positions of Director of the Albert Jovell Institute for Public Health and Patients (International University of Catalonia-UIC), Head of the Public Health Department of the Medical School (UIC), and first year tutor at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Dental School. Previously, she held the positions of President of the Spanish Patients Forum, Adjunct Director of the Josep Laporte Foundation, Academic Director of the Patients University, member of the Board of the European Patients Forum, Director of the Mutua de Terrassa Foundation and head of the Research Management Unit, Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research (Catalan Health Service). She has teaching and research experience in the areas of public health and patient empowerment. She is a member of various scientific commissions and forums in these areas.
Prof Christobel Saunders

Christobel Saunders is the James Stewart Chair of Surgery, the Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne (Royal Melbourne Hospital precinct) and consultant surgeon in the Department of General Surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute. She is internationally recognised as one of Australia’s most prominent research-orientated cancer surgeons. She has substantially contributed to breast cancer research including clinical trials of new treatments, psychosocial, translational and health services research.

In recognition of her sustained career excellence and innovation, she has been publicly acknowledged through numerous awards and honours including Order of Australia 2018, the Uccio Querci della Rovere Award (2018), WA Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee (2018), WA Scientist of the Year (2017) and Cancer Council WA career Achievement Award (2021). She has performed research for over 30 years evaluating the efficacy and utility of therapy for early breast cancer.

In the past five years, she has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, six letters to the editor/editorials, two research reports, two book chapters and one book. She sits on the boards of a number of health and research organisations including as Vice-President for All.can International and on the boards of All.can Australia, Breast Cancer Trials, the Australian Centre for Value Based Health Care and PathWest. Christobel is closely involved in strategic planning and management of health and cancer services in Australia including being on the Medicare Review Advisory Committee.

Dr Andrea Srur

Andrea Srur is a Medical Doctor trained in Chile at Universidad Mayor. Following her training, she completed a MSc in Management and Organisational Innovation at Queen Mary University London (2012) and a MSc in Health Systems and Global Policies (2018) at Queen Mary University London. She was Head of the Non-Communicable Diseases Department at the Ministry of Health in Chile, working on NCD policies, strengthening the national network and bringing stakeholders together, and through what she developed an interest for Value-Based Health Care and joined the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) in London in 2016 as Outcomes, Analytics and Benchmarking Manager. At ICHOM Andrea supported the implementation of Value-Based Health Care in hospitals across the UK, Europe and South America. After ICHOM, and during the pandemic, Andrea was the Programme Manager of the National Children Diabetes Quality Improvement Programme for England and Wales at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in London, UK. Since 2022, Andrea is the Associate Director for the Global Centre for Person-Centred Value-Based Health Care, managed by Sprink.

James Sanderson
James Sanderson is the Director of Personalised Care at NHS England, leading initiatives that empower individuals to have greater choice and control over their health and wellbeing. Since 2019, he has also served as CEO of the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP), where he fosters partnerships across arts, health, sports, leisure, and the natural environment to enhance national and local health and wellbeing strategies. James joined NHS England in November 2015, bringing with him extensive experience as Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Independent Living Fund (ILF), supporting disabled individuals throughout the UK to lead independent lives through direct payments for personal assistance support. Before his tenure at ILF starting in 2002, James had a career in the motor industry, encompassing various sales and marketing roles in both corporate and retail sectors. With a background in community theatre, James is a graduate in performing arts.
Dr Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts is a consultant nephrologist and associate medical director at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

He is clinical lead for the Value-Based Health Care programme.

He is clinical lead of the Welsh Renal Clinical Network and a research active consultant whose PhD focussed on inflammation and immunity. He is currently chief investigator of a national study looking at the socio-demographic factors that influence shared decision making in patients with advanced kidney failure as well.

Prof Anne Stiggelbout
Anne Stiggelbout is professor of Medical Decision Making at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management. Her research and teaching relate to individual doctor-patient decision making as well as Value-Based Health Care. This research involves doctor-patient communication, including risk communication, as a constituent of shared decision making. Recently she embarked on research on carepath redesign to empower both doctors and patients (and their decision partners) in Shared Decision making. Her research is both methods- and implementation-focused. Further, normative and ethical aspects of medical decision making are a topic of this line of research. She has received many grants, including from the Dutch Cancer Society and the Netherlands Organisations for Scientific Research (NWO, incl. a VIDI grant) and Medical Research (ZonMw). These grants have been for research focused on patient preference assessment, patient empowerment, shared decision-making and risk communication. She is active in implementing SDM locally, regionally, and nationally in the Netherlands. Her group has developed both elearnings and training workshops for professionals for this purpose. She is program lead of the Scientific Research Program on Value-Based Health Care at the LUMC. Prof. Stiggelbout is active in scientific advisory committees and boards in the area of medical decision making.
Dr Wilbert van den Hout

Wilbert van den Hout is a health economist at the Biomedical Data Sciences department of the Leiden University Medical Center. He is experienced in conducting economic evaluations, alongside patient trials or using mathematical modeling. He has a particular focus on

  • the use of costs in cost-effectiveness research
  • Value-Based Health Care and
  • supporting decision making at the patient, institutional and societal levels.
Register now for the PCVBHC online Training Programme starting in 16th September 2024.

Podcasters

In this podcast series, we introduce you to diverse voices and perspectives, exploring topics through engaging discussions with knowledgeable experts and thought leaders.

Adele Cahilll
Deputy Director Welsh Value in Health Centre, NHS Wales.
Adele Cachill has dedicated 37 years to the NHS, initially as Deputy Director in Procurement Services for NHS Wales. She later supported Turnaround and Transformation programmes across Welsh Health Boards from 2010 to 2015. Since 2016, Adele has been Assistant Director for Value-Based Health Care at Aneurin Bevan, leading strategic initiatives and partnerships within the Welsh Value in Health Centre.
Antonella Cardone
Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Patients Europe (CPE).
Antonella Cardone joined CPE as CEO at the end of 2022. She is also the Patient Advocacy Expert and Advisor to the Board of Pancreatic Cancer Europe (PCE), the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform of leading and most influential groups of physicians and patients, politicians, journalists, academia, and industry on Pancreatic Cancer.
Magdalena Daccord
Chief Executive Officer, Familial Hypercholesteremia Europe Foundation.
Magdalena Daccord advocates for individuals affected by familial hyperlipidaemias. Previously pivotal at the Women’s Brain Project, she led partnership development and organised the International Forum on Women’s Brain & Mental Health 2019. Her expertise in fostering partnerships across industry, academia, and policymakers has driven progress in health care. Formerly, as Associate Director at Drug Information Association, she managed educational projects and collaborated with regulators and patient organisations. Earlier, she held roles at Alexion, focusing on rare diseases.
Dr Samuel Finnikin
General Practitioner and former National Clinical Specialist Advisor in Personalised Care, NHS England.
Samuel Finnikin is a GP in Sutton Coldfield, a researcher at the University of Birmingham, and a National Clinical Specialist Advisor in personalised care at NHS England. Sam has a keen interest in shared decision-making and cardiovascular disease, focusing on improving patient collaboration to maximise health care benefits.
Prof Chris Hopkins
Assistant Director of AHP’s and Health Science, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Boar, NHS Wales.
Chris Hopkins is an Honorary Professor at the Wales Institute of Science and Art, a Consultant Clinical Scientist, and Head of TriTech and Innovation at Hywel Dda University Health Board. A Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineering & Technology and a Fellow of the Academy for Health care Science, he also advises the Welsh Government on medical device issues. Chris has authored numerous papers and collaborates on various research projects, particularly in artificial intelligence for health care systems. With over 24 years of NHS experience, he works closely with local universities and medtech companies and supervises several PhD projects.
Nick James
Commercial Planning Senior Manager, Amgen.
Nick James has over two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and is currently a Commercial Planning Senior Manager at Amgen, a role he has held since August 2021. Prior to this, Nick spent 22 years at Pfizer in various strategic roles. As a Strategic Account Manager, he managed accounts in Wales and the West Midlands. Additionally, he served as a Commercial Planning Manager, supporting UK Brand teams with market data insights to enhance decision-making. Nick also worked as a Clinical Effectiveness Consultant, engaging with the NHS to facilitate access to Pfizer medicines using data insights, health economic modelling, and clinical data appraisal.
Carl Lander
Chief Executive Officer, Familial Hypercholesteremia Europe Foundation.
Carl Lander, a Registered Nurse, has experience in critical care and interventional cardiology. Currently, he supports NHS Trusts in improving systems and processes and is deeply involved in patient advocacy, particularly for Rare Diseases, globally. His collaboration with organizations like Metabolic Support UK, where he recently became a Trustee, reflects his dedication to enhancing the patient experience. Ultimately, Carl aims to leverage his expertise in patient advocacy to effect positive change in health care delivery and patient outcomes.
Prof Dr Richard Lehman
Professor of Shared Understanding of Medicine, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, England, UK.
Richard Lehman was Professor of the Shared Understanding of Medicine in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham until 2020. He was a general practitioner in Banbury for 37 years. After retirement from full-time general practice, he worked initially on studies of patient experiences, and spent a year at Yale University working on patient-centred outcomes and helping to set up the Yale Open Data Access (YODA) project.
Dr Sally Lewis
Former National Clinical Lead for Value-Based Prudent Health care, NHS Wales.
Sally Lewis, founder of Kintsugi International, is a distinguished leader in Value-Based Health Care (VBHC). With a career spanning 30 years as a general practitioner, medical leader, and policy advisor, Sally has dedicated herself to transforming health care systems globally. As the former National Clinical Director for Value-Based and Prudent Health care in NHS Wales and the founder of the internationally recognised Welsh Value in Health Centre, she has been a pioneer in implementing VBHC, significantly contributing to global health care improvements. Her work has been recognised by prestigious institutions, including the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School, Bertelsmann-Stiftung, OECD, HTAi, and the Australian Health care and Hospitals Association. Sally also teaches internationally on VBHC principles, from undergraduate to executive education levels.
Dr Lucy Pollock
Consultant Geriatrician, Somerset Foundation NHS Trust
Lucy Pollock trained in medicine at Cambridge and Bart’s Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in East London before relocating to Somerset. Since 2001, she has been a consultant specialising in the care of frail and elderly patients. She is the author of the acclaimed book, ‘The Book About Getting Older: Dementia, finances, care homes and everything in between,’ which Sandy Toksvig (Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster) described as ‘the most important book about the second half of your life you’ll ever read.’

Alumni Testimonials

“I loved the Person-Centred Value-Based Health care (PCVBHC) training by Sprink - an excellent introduction to the principles, nuances and, most importantly, the potential and real-life implementation of PCVBHC. For a geek like me, the faculty was a dream team, the case studies rich in detail and leading to interesting reflections, and the facilitators guiding the online discussions generous with their knowledge and open about their successes, failures and lessons learnt in PCVBHC. I recommend it to all those looking for a thorough blend of theory and real-world applications, fellow students from different sectors of health (pharmaceutical industry, patient organisations, research and many more) and a community dedicated to bringing PCVBHC to a health system near you”.
Oana Scarlatescu
Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships, Health care Systems,
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).
"The PCVBHC online Training Programme is a great learning experience that fits around your working week. Online learning with experts but with break out discussion groups that really allow you to get to know your fellow participants and their feedback has proven to be of tremendous value for me. I've built links and networks with other enthusiasts and enjoyed learning from others. All the experts are very approachable and help you with your projects in a very sensible and constructive way. The knowledge I've gained and the processes that I used during the programme are benefitting my new Value projects. I hope Sprink look to build further courses and qualifications to improve my knowledge in PCVBHC".
Dr. Claire Dunstan
Consultant Anaesthetist and Assistant Director Surgical Clinical Board,
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, NHS Wales.
“The training was highly beneficial, and I found the course structure to be engaging and effective. The group sessions were particularly insightful and thought-provoking, as I was surrounded by senior professionals with a wealth of knowledge to share. The practical project was a great opportunity to put my skills to the test and develop a comprehensive plan. Even after the training, I still refer back to the notes and materials shared during the sessions when I need to plan activities, develop new projects, or prepare for presentations. Overall, I am confident in my ability to apply the skills I learned during this training to my work and continue to grow in my field”.
Antonella Cardone
CEO of Cancer Patients Europe.
[….] In my role as Value Project Mentor, I work with services across the Swansea Bay Health Board in Wales to implement Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROM) and identify potential benefits through a Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) approach. I found the PCVBHC Training Programme useful, not only focussing on the critical elements of the theory but in signposting us to relevant resources to facilitate this. The format of the content was varied between reading resources, videos to be watched when convenient, case studies to illustrate particular topics and peer reviewed project work sessions. This strong practical element has allowed me to put this approach into action only a short time after completing the course work [….].

[….] I particularly liked the metro mapping, goal setting PROM tool and Decision aids sessions for patients. I plan to test these in a number of projects. [….] It was also interesting to link with international attendees and discover that despite different health systems, we are not so different in other ways [….]
Lucy K Jones
Value Project Manager,
Swansea Bay University Health Board, NHS Wales.

Organisations We've Trained

Registration fees

CategoryDefinitionPrice
Supporting Partners and MembersEmployees of Supporting Partners and Members of the Global Centre for PCVBHC.Up to 15 free passes for the virtual education programme. Once free passes are allocated, fees will be charged according to the appropriate category.
RegularMedium and large for-profit companies*.£1500
ConcessionPublic-sector organisations (including the publicly funded health sector), university staff and students, non-profit organisations, patient advocacy organisations, and small for-profit companies**.£800
(Coupon code: concession-pcvbhc-2024)
Multiple (Regular)When purchasing two or more ‘Regular’ places.£800 per place.
Multiple (Concession)When purchasing two or more ‘Concession’ places.£500 per place.
(Coupon code: concession-pcvbhc-2024)

*Medium and large for-profit companies: More than 50 employees.
**Small for-profit companies: 1 to 49 employees.

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