Value-driven Care

Value-driven Care is one of the three fields that the Quality of Care Consortium works in. Within this programme, the umcs collaborate closely together for specific patient groups, under the leadership of healthcare professionals. 

Three key elements

Value-driven Care focuses on three key elements:

1. a good talk with the patient;  

2. improved collaboration between healthcare professionals;

3. learning together for better care.

Value-driven Care is a means for umcs to improve care further proactively under the leadership of healthcare professionals. They make use of innovations, which they incorporate together in the care of specific patient groups and how it is organised for them. Starting point: a better mutual understanding between patient and caregiver about the treatment goals. Plus: better charting of outcomes through clinical data and patient-reported outcomes.

Expert committees

Within this programme healthcare professionals gather in expert committees dedicated to certain diseases. They choose the clinical outcome measures and questionnaires used to evaluate a treatment. They use them in consultations, and then they work towards mutual comparison of treatments and outcomes. In 2018 this collaboration started for cleft lip/palate, breast cancer and CVA. In the second half of 2019, the following conditions were added: inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), oesophageal cancer, head and neck oncology and chronic kidney damage. 

The programme leaders of the umc Value-driven Care programmes are united in the Methods and Management committee, which addresses issues jointly. Making data available and using it are primary in this endeavour.

Building on knowledge

With Value-driven Care, we build on our earlier integration of knowledge and experience. And we utilise the expertise, practices and training within our knowledge networks for the main themes ‘The patient as partner’ and ‘Interprofessional collaboration’. We are also looking at the work being done in the Citrienfonds programmes. To teach professionals to work with Value-driven Care, the umcs are currently developing a blended learning track, the Advanced Training Programme in Value-driven Care.

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