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VALUE-BASED HEALTH AND CARE ACADEMY
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RATED WORLD-LEADING 100%
OF OUR RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
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Welcome to the Value-Based Health and Care Academy in the School of Management, Swansea University.
World-leading Educational Programmes We offer a range of courses, workshops and events to help equip people with the knowledge, skills and attitude to make a real difference in the delivery of Value-Based Health and Care across the World. Innovative Research Our research team has a wealth of knowledge and experience, providing the latest evidence to inform implementation, innovation and the development of policy. Bespoke Consultancy Service Our consultants have a comprehensive understanding of health and care systems and are experienced in working with healthcare and life sciences industry organisations to identify and address challenges. We co-create our advice and bespoke support with organisations as they implement Value-Based Health and Care.
Delivering Education, Research and Consultancy in Value-Based Health and Care (VBHC), we are one of a highly select group of universities around the world supporting the understanding and implementation of this new and exciting approach for healthcare systems to deliver better outcomes and be financially sustainable. We have educational programmes at every level, from foundation to doctoral, underpinned by the latest research and designed for working professionals in health, social care, the third sector, life sciences industries, Government and policy making. We deliver consultancy services to some of the biggest life sciences companies in the world and can call upon internationally recognised experts from within Wales and across the globe for all our activities.
We look forward to hearing from you and helping you on your Value-Based Health and Care journey.
Professor Hamish Laing Director of Value-Based Health and Care Academy
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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES Our educational courses are designed to equip professionals with the knowledge, skills and confidence to make a real difference in the delivery of Value-Based Health and Care (VBHC), wherever they work. Aimed at leaders and senior managers working in health, social care, the third sector or life-sciences industries, there is something for everyone wanting to understand more about VBHC.
Executive Education: Principles of Value-Based Health and Care
Short intensive course covering all the key elements of VBHC. From theory to implementation, and the core skills and knowledge needed to lead the creation of effective VBHC systems.
MSc Advanced Health and Care Management (Value-Based)
A master’s degree with a specialist VBHC pathway at its centre, enabling individuals to immerse themselves fully in Value-Based Health and Care and its application.
Doctorate of Business Administration, DBA
A taught programme where students can engage in applied research specifically within the field of Value-Based Health and Care to expand the knowledge base underpinning VBHC adoption globally.
e-learning: Value-Based Health and Care
Self-directed and self-paced online foundation programmes for those new to VBHC with expert practitioners to guide their learning. Useful preparation for our more advanced courses too.
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Executive Education: Principles of Value-Based Health and Care
The curriculum of this intensive executive education course covers the key areas of VBHC, the detail around the implementation and the core skills and knowledge needed to lead the creation of VBHC systems as well as partnering for value across sectors. Using different learning approaches including case-based discussion, small group working, panel presentations and simulation, learners have opportunities to discuss with peers from their own and different sectors how they might apply the learning to their own work environments. This course is delivered in two formats during the year; in-person and online (virtual).
MSc Advanced Health and Care Management (Value-Based)
Developed specifically for professional learners, this master’s degree with a specialist VBHC pathway allows students to immerse themselves in the emerging paradigm of Value-Based Health and Care, its history, theory and implementation in practice at a population and individual level. Students develop a VBHC strategy for their own organisation and an implementation plan that includes outcome measurements, utilising digital technologies, applying new costing models, innovative procurement partnerships, as well as the leadership approaches required for success. Studied full-time over the course of one year, or flexibly part-time over two years, all students undertake an assessed project that can be workplace based.
Doctorate of Business Administration, DBA
The School of Management DBA is a part-time professional doctorate designed for senior managers and leaders in all sectors; private, public and not-for-profit. On this programme, learners can engage in applied research specifically within the field of Value-Based Health and Care, bringing established and cutting-edge theory to bear on their practical organisational issues. Learners will develop and enrich practice in their field, as well as contributing to our understanding of the underpinning theoretical base for the work.
e-learning
Our virtual e-learning platform (Canvas Catalog™) is a powerful and effective way to acquire foundational knowledge in your own time and pace, without the need to enrol as a full University student. Learners can choose from a range of educational courses in VHBC from work or home. Courses are completely online and provide incredible convenience, flexibility, and accessibility. University Certificates of Completion are available.
For more information on which course would suit you best, visit our dedicated website: swansea.ac.uk/som/vbhc-academy
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MS c ADVANCED HEALTH AND CARE MANAGEMENT (VALUE-BASED) MODULES
Our programme philosophy blends critical theory with a professional orientation to challenge you to reflect critically on organising for global changes in locally grounded contexts. The modules studied are a range of compulsory modules, before undertaking a highly innovative, final independent project in your third semester, which my be workplace-based, designed to benefit both yourself and your organisation. The typical modules studied on the MSc in Advanced Health and Care Management (Value-Based) are detailed below. Course structures are subject to change, and full information on the full-time and part- time variants can be found on our website: bit.ly/Value-BasedMSc
FULL TIME
Exploring Organisational Purpose Module Name COMPULSORY MODULES Navigating Innovation & Change Prudent Health and Care - Policy and Practice Value-Based Health and Care: Strategy Development Value-Based Health and Care: Strategy Implementation Research in a Health & Care Context including project
Study within
Sept - Jan Sept - Jan
Jan - June
Jan - June
Jan - June
June - Sept
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YEAR 2: COMPULSORY MODULES
Navigating Innovation & Change: Fundamentals Module Name YEAR 1: COMPULSORY MODULES Exploring Organisational Purpose: Fundamentals Navigating Innovation & Change: Applied Exploring Organisational Purpose: Responses and Applications Prudent Health and Care - Policy and Practice
Module Name
Studied Study within
Study within
Value-Based Health and Care: Strategy Development Value-Based Health and Care Strategy Implementation: Approaches and Evaluation Value-Based Health and Care Strategy Implementation: Leadership and People
Aug - Oct
Sept - Jan Sept - Jan
Sept - Jan
Jan - June
Jan - June
Jan - June
Research in a Health & Care Context including project
Jan - Sept
June - Sept
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ACCREDITATION
Our master’s programme is accredited by two independent accrediting bodies.
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INTENSIVE LEARNING ACADEMY PROGRAMME
The VBHC Academy at Swansea University is part-funded through the Intensive Learning Academy (ILA) Programme established by the Welsh Government following publication of A Healthier Wales, the long-term plan for Health and Social Care. The ILA programme supports the professional capability and system leadership across all of Wales to be fit for the challenges for health and social care systems today and tomorrow.
Our VBHC Academy works closely with the other ILAs in Wales: • All Wales Academy for Innovation in Health and Social Care (Swansea University) • Applied Learning for Preventative Health: ALPHAcademy (Bangor University) • Digital Transformation (University of South Wales) Our location in Wales, one of a small number of health and care systems to lead the global adoption of Value-Based Health and Care, means that the VBHC Academy can call upon a global faculty and reach, incorporating international evidence and experience and attracting learners
from many different regions and countries. We actively encourage learners from different geographies and from different sectors to learn from and with each other, sharing experience, perspectives, challenges and successes.
Value-Based Health and Care Academy ILA Scholarship Funding Grant funding from the Welsh Government allows us to offer a limited number of ILA Scholarships to professional learners from across Wales in Social Care, the NHS and Third Sector organisations for all our educational programmes. To find out more about our scholarship see page 17.
For more information scan the QR code or email: VBHCAcademy@swansea.ac.uk
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RESEARCH
Whilst the principles of VBHC are understood, there is an urgent need for research to inform the evolution of VBHC and how it can be implemented in diverse healthcare economies. Only through research and dissemination of knowledge underpinned by academic rigour can we know how best to define and measure the outcomes that matter to people as part of their routine care; what societal value really is; how to create shared value fairly through long-term partnerships with industry; how to evolve the VBHC model to span health and social care and across longitudinal care pathways; how VBHC supports delivery of Prudent Healthcare and its global equivalents. The VBHC Academy is working with health and care systems and life sciences industry partners to provide thought leadership as well as to investigate how to overcome these challenges of adoption and implementation. We are keen to work with other partners to accelerate understanding.
Our research programme themes:
CREATING AND MEASURING VALUE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE HEALTH AND CARE PATHWAY
DESIGN AND OPERATION OF INNOVATIVE OUTCOME-BASED AGREEMENTS FOR MEDICINES, TECHNOLOGY AND ATMPS
UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING SOCIETAL VALUE
EVALUATING VBHC APPROACHES AND DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE
VALUE-BASED SUPPLY
If you would like to explore with us how we can help your research, evaluation or collaboration needs, please get in touch: vbhcacademy@swansea.ac.uk
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CONSULTANCY
We recognise that implementing VBHC represents a fundamental shift for health and care systems and for the life sciences industries and can be challenging in practice. Our consultancy services provide more sustained, bespoke support and thought leadership for healthcare systems and industry partners and may be combined with research to understand the baseline needs and in-house educational programmes to equip senior leaders and their teams with the knowledge and skills required. We take time to understand the needs of your organisation or team and co-create the support we deliver for you. As an academic institution, we can translate the latest thinking into actionable products. We have several international experts from healthcare, life sciences industry and academia who support our educational and consultancy programmes and can be part of the consultancy team according to the specialist expertise required. We work with some of the world’s biggest organisations but enjoy partnering with small teams and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well.
Emma Clifton-Brown, Head of Health & Value, UK, Pfizer
‘’The Value-Based Health and Care Academy at Swansea University, has been instrumental in guiding Pfizer’s journey into Value-Based healthcare. Through a programme that enrolled more than 90 leaders, Pfizer has successfully embedded the ethos of value in health across all layers of the organisation. Gaining a more holistic view of what value means for different stakeholders across the health system has underpinned new ways to approach partnerships, most notably in Wales, and has strengthened Pfizer’s approach to address outcomes that matter. This mindset is critical in helping us to bring breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.’’
James McHale, Global Value-Based Partnerships Manager, Mölnlycke
‘’The Academy are true leaders in the space of VBHC and a key driver of Mölnlycke’s learning, creation and application on the topic. Experts on the UK NHS system, with a global appreciation and network, they are a highly credible academic partner who share our mutual aims on the development and execution of strategic Value-Based partnerships. With their support we continue to explore how we can drive maximum value for healthcare systems and patients.’’
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ABOUT VALUE-BASED HEALTH AND CARE (VBHC)
Health and care systems around the word face the combined challenges of rising and more complex demand, demographic change and resource constraint.
Governments and payers striving to ensure a sustainable future for these vital services increasingly are focussing on Value: improving the outcomes that matter most to patients and service users at the lowest possible cost and improving population health within the resources available, through reallocation of resources from low-value to higher-value activities. Swansea University has a long history of partnering with health and care system and life-sciences industry leaders. Now we are excited to be bringing rigorous thought-leadership, insights and research that inform the development and practical implementation of Value-Based Health and Care. Participants in our programmes will benefit from a rich understanding of this emerging approach and will be exposed to leaders, practitioners and academics from a range of care settings across the globe, systems and sectors. They will learn from real world cases and the lived experience and perspectives of fellow participants as well as from the expert faculty. Recognised by the World Economic Forum, EU, G20 and OECD for its leadership and commitment to VBHC implementation, Wales recognises the importance of Value in all aspects of system design and leadership: in the allocation of resource, throughout the whole of care pathways and in the procurement of services and healthcare technologies. With just over 3 million citizens served by a common health and care system, Wales is ideally placed to be a testbed for innovation and new models of care delivery.
The Value-Based Health and Care Academy provides academic rigour in teaching the principles of Value-Based care, working in partnership with the Welsh Value in Health Centre. It is also a vehicle for growing the research base, cementing Wales’ reputation as a leader in this field, and ensure that health and social care staff in Wales can access a gold standard of VBHC education close to home.
DR SALLY LEWIS Director, Welsh Value in Health Centre
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ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
At the School of Management, we offer a range of programmes designed to help you develop your management skills. Our courses are designed to enable leaders to build sustainable, high performing organisations and economies.
Working with industry experts, our world-leading academics have designed flexible Executive Education programmes that result in positive change. You have the option to participate in intensive short courses or longer comprehensive programmes of learning based on your needs as an individual or member of an organisation. We offer Executive Education courses across a number of sectors, in addition to our VBHC Executive Education course, including: • Chartered Institute of Marketing Levels 4 and 6
POSTGRADUATE DEGREES FOR PROFESSIONALS: • Business Administration, MBA •
MSc Advanced Health and Care Management (Innovation and Transformation)
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MSc Human Resource Management
MSc Professional Accounting
For more information about our Executive Education offer, please contact the team directly on: som-execed@swansea.ac.uk
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FACILITIES
Professional learners based in the School of Management have access to a range of sector-leading facilities, including:
BAY CAMPUS Bay Campus is home to many facilities aimed to provide a fantastic learning enviroment. This includes, study spaces across each campus building, a top of the range library, coffee shops (including Costa Coffee), a Tesco Express and Subway.
PROFESSIONAL LEARNERS SUITE A dedicated Professional Learning Suite for teaching
and collaborative working. Fully equipped with computer stations as well as group working spaces designed to foster creative thinking and innovative projects. SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT The purpose-built School of Management building includes a reception area, client interview rooms, student collaboration spaces and staff offices. There is also a large space where our partners can collaborate in an informal, creative environment. BAY LIBRARY Bay Campus Library is a modern library which provides high-quality information services for all students and staff, as well as the public. We are constantly developing these services to support the University’s learning, teaching, research and corporate activities.
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STUDENT SUPPORT We have a dedicated Student Experience and Information team on hand to provide professional, student-centred guidance and support across several key areas including:
Supporting students through Welcome Week and Induction
Organising student engagement activities and social events
Supporting you with timetable queries
Guiding and processing change of circumstances requests, which include: suspensions of studies, programme transfers, and withdrawals
Linking in with central support services to ensure students are supported effectively
Working closely with students and academic mentors
Supporting students through the University’s engagement monitoring process and following up to ensure that, where students are facing challenges, the team can provide professional and bespoke support
1:1 meetings with students in person or online regarding personal or academic issues
Supporting students who have extenuating circumstances via the formal process, for coursework, in class tests, online tests, exams, etc
Supporting students with disabilities, and connecting them with the University Disability Office
For more information about the support available to you visit: swansea.ac.uk/student-services
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STUDENT EXPERIENCE
The Value Based Health and Care Academy provides the only Masters-level degree in Value Based healthcare in the UK. Despite my demanding NHS role and living in London, the blended online and in-person workshops allowed me to participate fully. The teaching has been excellent, equipping me with both academic expertise and practical skills. Thanks to this course, I have been given a secondment to a role where I can apply my learning and deliver real change. Additionally, I have made valuable connections with other students, faculty members, and guest speakers.
SARA ROBERTS Arden & GEM NHS England, Senior Manager – Integrated Support Services Studying MSc Advanced Health and Care Management (Value-Based)
This course has provided an intensive yet rewarding exploration of the Value Based approach in delivering on an individual’s personal outcomes and implementing integrated services. The lecturers were supportive, and the practical application of knowledge gained was invaluable. I believe more social care leaders should have the opportunity to take this course to promote integrative approaches to health and well-being delivery and develop resilient communities.
SARAH VAUGHAN Monmouthshire Wales, Therapy Lead North Monmouthshire Integrated Services Studying MSc Advanced Health and Care Management (Value-Based)
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ILA SCHOLARSHIPS Our VBHC Academy is a member of the Welsh Government Intensive Learning Academy (ILA) Programme which offers scholarships to professional learners from across Wales in Social Care, the NHS and Third Sector organisations for our educational programmes. If you work within a Health, Social Care or Third Sector organisation within Wales, you may be eligible to apply for an ILA scholarship. Visit our dedicated scholarship page for latest funding updates, deadlines and for more information on the application process.
Any queries please email: VBHCAcademy@swansea.ac.uk
OTHER POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES Swansea University understands that the cost of your studies is one of the most important factors when deciding on a postgraduate degree. Swansea offers a number of other postgraduate scholarships and bursaries to students within and outside Wales to help you fund your studies. Further information on all these funding opportunities can be found by scanning the QR code. 17
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