Care Pathways - Effectiveness, Value & Equity

This interdisciplinary seminar will examine care pathways in healthcare through three complementary lenses. Kieran Holland, our guest speaker from New Zealand, will begin by articulating the rationale behind adopting care pathways, emphasizing (for example) their capacity to standardise practice, minimise unwarranted variation, optimise patient outcomes and foster multidisciplinary teamwork.

Liz Schroeder and Apo Tsiachristas from our own Health Economics group will outline candidate methodologies for quantifying the economic value of care pathways, exploring (for example) cost-effectiveness analyses, return on investment assessments, and evaluations of care pathways. Finally, public policy consultant Julian King (also from New Zealand) will talk about ‘principles and a process for getting clear answers to value-for-money questions in complex and hard-to-measure contexts’.

If you would like to attend, please email charlotte.thompson-grant@phc.ox.ac.uk