Briefing / Collecting outcomes to promote value-based healthcare

This case study describes how the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) has started to collect, measure and use health outcomes for patients receiving prostate cancer care. The project is part of a wider programme of work currently underway in the trust to promote value-based healthcare.

The trust is using the outcome framework developed by the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), and testing this approach with clinicians and managers responsible for prostate cancer care delivery at UHCW.

At UCHW, a range of clinically rich datasets were already being collected, but these were not being used in any meaningful way. Project work so far has focused on combining these data sets to improve access to a more coherent set of data. The next stages of the project will both provide better information for patients, and enable outcomes data to be linked to finance and activity data, held within the trust Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS). This should help to develop a better understanding of the economics of service delivery.