Value-Based Healthcare: Dream or Reality?

Revolutionising healthcare delivery around patient needs: Professor Paul van der Nat, value-based healthcare expert, explains how this transformative approach is reshaping hospitals worldwide. From breaking down departmental silos to boosting staff satisfaction amid workforce shortages, discover how patient-centred care improves accessibility, quality and affordability while empowering multidisciplinary teams to deliver better outcomes.

What is value-based healthcare? Why does it require different ways of working and how will this affect healthcare providers, clinicians, nurses, and healthcare workers?

Professor Paul van der Nat, an international expert in value-based healthcare, shares his experience on how value-based healthcare, where care is organised around the patient based on patient needs, future-proofs care, and how we can learn from each other globally on the journey towards value-based healthcare.

Together with SGH Hospital of the Future Podcast hosts Associate Professor Goh Su-Yen and Associate Professor Hairil Rizal Bin Abdullah, Professor Paul explains:
-  how value-based healthcare has developed over the years
- what steps he and his team at Santeon, Radboud University Medical Center, and St. Antonius Hospital successfully developed to implement value-based healthcare in hospitals
- how value-based healthcare impacts the accessibility, quality and affordability of care hospitals provide
- while change management is necessary for implementing value-based health care and he is cognisant that changes can demand a lot from healthcare providers,  a vital element of value-based healthcare is that it increases the job satisfaction of nurses and medical specialists, and should not be underestimated at a time of increasing work pressure and staff shortages
- how departments sometimes work in silos, where various healthcare professionals of a patient might hardly know each other and each other's work
- his focus on how we can work more in multidisciplinary teams, to provide patients better care and prioritise value for individual patients.

SGH Hospital of the Future podcast guest, Professor Paul van der Nat, in the SGH Studio with Associate Professor Hairil Rizal Bin Abdullah and Associate Professor Goh Su-Yen

About Professor Paul van der Nat
Professor Paul van der Nat has led large-scale value-based healthcare implementation in the Netherlands for over a decade, achieving measurable improvements in patient outcomes, and operational efficiency. He has founded and chairs the Value Catalyst, a global learning community of leading hospitals. He currently serves as Professor of Value-Based Healthcare at Radboud University Medical Center, Chief Value Officer at St. Antonius Hospital, and research development manager at Santeon.

He holds a PhD in High-Energy Physics for his work at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Amsterdam).

About SGH Hospital of the Future Podcast Hosts
Associate Professor Goh Su-Yen is Senior Consultant,  Endocrinology at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Head and Senior Consultant, SingHealth Duke-NUS Diabetes Centre, and Group Director, Innovation and Transformation, SingHealth, with an interest in innovation and transformation. 

Associate Professor Hairil Rizal is a Senior Consultant, Anaesthesiology, and Clinical Director for the Office of Value-based Healthcare (OVBH) at SGH. As a perioperative clinician, he led a transformative initiative in SGH that culminated in a one-stop Preoperative Assessment Centre, and introduced the “PREPARE” prehabilitation program for elderly patients, earning him the National Healthcare Innovation and Productivity Award in 2020. As the Clinical Director of OVBH, his work in operationalising Value Based Healthcare has been recognised with the "Distinguished Champion of Change Leader Award" by SingHealth in 2022. His focus on innovation, education, and patient care positions him as a prominent leader in his field.

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