Learning In ValuE based health care project Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning In ValuE based health care project

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Health and wellbeing; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Health care systems in Europe are facing various important challenges. Chronic diseases and comorbid conditions are increasing with the rising age of the population. Growth of health care expenditures is unsustainable and care is still not person centered enough. Diagnostic and treatment options are expanding and changing without a uniform method to evaluate them. Moreover, the health care systems differ in the EU member states, which obstructs comparison of the quality and outcomes of care.

Value Based Health Care (VBHC) is seen as a framework to address these challenges. In VBHC health care professionals analyse outcomes and experiences that matter to patients in relation to the resources used. Several organisations in and outside Europe stimulate the measurement of outcomes, e.g. the OECD, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, the Commonwealth Fund and ICHOM (International Consortium of Outcome Measures).

The University Hospital Alliance Europe (UHAE) was formed in 2017 by nine of the largest university hospitals in Europe to share their expertise in healthcare, research and education. One of the UHAE’s aims is improving the outcomes for today and tomorrow’s patients. The UHAE members and partners in the LIVE-project recognize the importance of VBHC in order to better guarantee the position of the patient, and to facilitate comparison between countries. This will allow for peer learning and benchmarking on European level, which will contribute to the sustainability of our healthcare systems.

The transition towards VBHC entails important changes in workflow and requires different ways of working from staff. Care is organized in a team based approach and around the patient instead of around the medical discipline. The medical and patient reported outcomes are to be discussed with the individual patient and can lead in a shared decision making process to a change in treatment procedures and targets. Furthermore, VBHC means data capture of clinical outcome and process measures, but also patient reported outcomes in relation to the financial data. Appropriately trained staff is an essential condition for the transition towards VBHC, but currently the measures to carry out the trainings are not yet in place. Involved staff do not naturally have the appropriate skills and competences to start working like this.
Therefore, the project aims to create a network of professionals in value based health care training, to share good practices and outline the necessary conditions for implementation of training in value based health care. Hence, the partners will:
1. define the new job profiles and changes in the work processes
2. describe the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude for the selected jobs
3. share existing good practices and analyse mismatch in training needs/offers
4. formulate recommendations for the implementation of training and education.

The alliance consists of nine University Hospitals which are leading in their countries and they are all in transition to the framework of VBHC. The target groups (staff to be trained) are: physicians, nurses, managers, administrative, financial, human resource and IT-staff. (EQF level 3-7).
The partners will organise transnational meetings (total of eight) for which specific topics have been defined based on a blueprint for the transition towards the framework of VBHC (e.g. data handling and data privacy, team collaboration, discussion of outcomes with patients and shared decision making, IT-support, finances). During the project the partners will share their good practices (and pitfalls), including good practices they learned from organisations outside of this partnership. In this project the partners will make an inventory what educational materials are available now, to what extent this can be used in training on the different levels (vocational training and higher education), what is missing and how we can solve the gap

The impact for staff members will be that they will have gained insight how the skills and competences is going to change and what this will mean for training and education development. This will result in more opportunities for lifelong learning and (potentially) further career options and higher motivation. VBHC means working on outcomes and experiences from the perspective of the patient, as well as a more patient centered care. With a better and more to VBHC dedicated education and training program, we can better enable co-creation of care. This will result in higher patient satisfaction and ultimately in increased health gains. Moreover, during and in the follow-up of this project the participating University Hospitals will gain the experience of including education and training of staff in their plans for transition. This experience is very valuable also for possible future transitions (other than VBHC).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134249,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM & Country: NL

Project Partners

• STOCKHOLMS LANS LANDSTING
• KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
• OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL
• MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN
• KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
• CHARITE – UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN
• ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE – HOPITAUX DE PARIS