
Implementing Value-based Healthcare
An Insider's Guide to Improving Patient Outcomes and Creating Sustainable Systems
Sally Lewis(Author)
London Publishing Partnership
Published on 21. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-916749-51-1 (ISBN)
Description
With healthcare systems worldwide coming under immense
strain - rising costs, clinician burnout, unequal patient outcomes - this book offers
a pragmatic, deeply human and globally relevant solution. Written by Professor
Sally Lewis, a frontline physician and transformative leader in the Welsh
National Health Service, the book is a call to action for all policymakers,
clinicians and managers. Through stories, strategic frameworks and grounded
expertise, Lewis illustrates how healthcare systems can deliver better patient
outcomes while using resources more effectively. From discussing grassroots
implementation in Wales to proposing guiding principles that are adaptable
across continents, the book brings to life the value-based healthcare approach:
focusing on what truly matters to patients.
This invaluable guide gives you the tools you will need to
overcome resistance, harness data and foster multidisciplinary collaboration.
With humility and insight, Lewis shows that sustainable, patient-centred reform
is not just possible, it is already underway. This is more than a blueprint;
it's a movement. Wherever you are in the world, if you care about health
equity, outcomes and sustainable care, this book belongs on your desk.
strain - rising costs, clinician burnout, unequal patient outcomes - this book offers
a pragmatic, deeply human and globally relevant solution. Written by Professor
Sally Lewis, a frontline physician and transformative leader in the Welsh
National Health Service, the book is a call to action for all policymakers,
clinicians and managers. Through stories, strategic frameworks and grounded
expertise, Lewis illustrates how healthcare systems can deliver better patient
outcomes while using resources more effectively. From discussing grassroots
implementation in Wales to proposing guiding principles that are adaptable
across continents, the book brings to life the value-based healthcare approach:
focusing on what truly matters to patients.
This invaluable guide gives you the tools you will need to
overcome resistance, harness data and foster multidisciplinary collaboration.
With humility and insight, Lewis shows that sustainable, patient-centred reform
is not just possible, it is already underway. This is more than a blueprint;
it's a movement. Wherever you are in the world, if you care about health
equity, outcomes and sustainable care, this book belongs on your desk.
Reviews / Votes
Sally Lewis has written a powerful and practical guide to one of the most urgent challenges in healthcare today. Drawing on real-world lessons from Wales and beyond, she shows how value-based healthcare can improve patient outcomes while making systems more sustainable. A must-read for clinicians, policymakers, and leaders seeking a path to better health outcomes for individuals and communities. - Professor Zoe Wainer, Deputy Secretary, Community & Public Health at Victorian Department of Health, Melbourne, AustraliaThis is an essential history of the value-based healthcare mindset and method, and a pragmatic guidebook for local, national, and global healthcare transformation. Through examples and frank assessment of the hard work required, she reminds us that getting to the summit of value is a team effort, and our compass must ever be the health outcomes important to patients. - Jennifer Bright, President & CEO, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-916749-51-1 (9781916749511)
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An Insider's Guide to Improving Patient Outcomes and Creating Sustainable Systems
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Professor Sally Lewis is a distinguished leader in the field of value-based healthcare with a remarkable career spanning 30 years as a general practitioner, medical leader and policy advisor. She is now an international consultant on value-based healthcare system transformation and is Professor of Value in Health Management at Swansea University's value-based health and care academy. Her work has been recognized by global institutions including the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School, Bertelsmann-Stiftung, the OECD, HTAi and the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association.
Content
Contents
Moral injury: why we must tackle the global crisis in
healthcare
PART 1
A STORY OF VALUE-BASED HEALTHCARE IN PRACTICE
CHAPTER 1
Beginnings: the roots of value-based healthcare in Wales and
beyond
CHAPTER 2
Velvet bulldozers: getting vaue-based healthcare off the
ground
CHAPTER 3
A gentle revolution from within
PART II
HOW TO DRIVE VALUE FOR POPULATIONS, PATHWAYS AND PEOPLE
CHAPTER 4
A person is not a disease: achieving better outcomes for
people
CHAPTER 5
Making a difference - driving value aross pathways of care
CHAPTER 6
True north: driving value for populations
PART 3
LESSONS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
CHAPTER 7
Turning data into wisdom: the foundation of value-based
decisions
CHAPTER 8
Passing the baton: what next for value-based healthcare?
Notes
Moral injury: why we must tackle the global crisis in
healthcare
PART 1
A STORY OF VALUE-BASED HEALTHCARE IN PRACTICE
CHAPTER 1
Beginnings: the roots of value-based healthcare in Wales and
beyond
CHAPTER 2
Velvet bulldozers: getting vaue-based healthcare off the
ground
CHAPTER 3
A gentle revolution from within
PART II
HOW TO DRIVE VALUE FOR POPULATIONS, PATHWAYS AND PEOPLE
CHAPTER 4
A person is not a disease: achieving better outcomes for
people
CHAPTER 5
Making a difference - driving value aross pathways of care
CHAPTER 6
True north: driving value for populations
PART 3
LESSONS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
CHAPTER 7
Turning data into wisdom: the foundation of value-based
decisions
CHAPTER 8
Passing the baton: what next for value-based healthcare?
Notes