Collaborating to deliver value in health care: exploring conditions required for successful healthcare and life science sector collaboration
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
ISSN: 1750-6166
Article publication date: 10 August 2020
Issue publication date: 9 March 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The UK Government-funded National Health Service (NHS) is experiencing significant pressures because of the complexity of challenges to, and demands of, health-care provision. This situation has driven government policy level support for transformational change initiatives, such as value-based health care (VBHC), through closer alignment and collaboration across the health-care system-life science sector nexus. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the necessary antecedents to collaboration in VBHC through a critical exploration of the existing literature, with a view to establishing the foundations for further development of policy, practice and theory in this field.
Design/methodology/approach
A literature review was conducted via searches on Scopus and Google Scholar between 2009 and 2019 for peer-reviewed articles containing keywords and phrases “Value-based healthcare industry” and “healthcare industry collaboration”. Refinement of the results led to the identification of “guiding conditions” (GCs) for collaboration in VBHC.
Findings
Five literature-derived GCs were identified as necessary for the successful implementation of initiatives such as VBHC through system-sector collaboration. These are: a multi-disciplinarity; use of appropriate technological infrastructure; capturing meaningful metrics; understanding the total cycle-of-care; and financial flexibility. This paper outlines research opportunities to empirically test the relevance of the five GCs with regard to improving system-sector collaboration on VBHC.
Originality/value
This paper has developed a practical and constructive framework that has the potential to inform both policy and further theoretical development on collaboration in VBHC.
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Acknowledgements
Victoria Bates is seconded to Swansea University School of Management as Value-Based Healthcare and Industry Director. The position is jointly supported by Pfizer UK and Swansea University School of Management. Professor Hamish Laing holds a position at Swansea University School of Management which is funded by Pfizer.
Citation
Rees, D.J., Bates, V., Thomas, R.A., Brooks, S.B., Laing, H., Davies, G.H., Williams, M., Phillips, L. and Dwivedi, Y.K. (2021), "Collaborating to deliver value in health care: exploring conditions required for successful healthcare and life science sector collaboration", Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 169-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-05-2020-0074
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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