- Date
- Friday 8 Apr 2022, 09:30 - 18:30
- Type
- Symposium
- Spoken Language
- English
- Building
- Erasmus Pavilion
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), a symposium will be held entitled ‘Making Healthcare Sustainable’. Plenary speakers for this event are Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford) and Professor Mike Drummond (University of York) who have both received honorary doctorates from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In addition, various interactive sessions will be held related to value-based healthcare, organisational sustainability, inequalities in health(care), and the resilience of healthcare systems. In these sessions, researchers from ESHPM, as well as external speakers, will shed light on these important issues from different scientific perspectives. The symposium will take place at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Woudestein Campus) on April 8. We hope to welcome many of you in Rotterdam at this important and festive event!
Time schedule:
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome by Professor Pieter van Baal (chair of the symposium) and Rector Magnificus Professor Annelien Bredenoord
10:15 – 11:15 Professor Trish Greenhalgh: ‘Improving Crisis Policymaking: A Call for Pragmatism’
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel sessions:
- Value-Based Healthcare and Financial Sustainability: An Unfulfilled Promise?
- Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Across the Globe
- Moving Towards Resilient Healthcare Systems
Click down below to read more about the programmes and speakers for each of the parallel sessions.
In this session we will focus on the proclaimed promise of Value-Based HealthCare (VBHC) to not only increase healthcare quality but also to contain costs. The focus on quality is seen in many discussions on VBHC, often highlighting the role of shared decision making, and in the implementation of VBHC initiatives in healthcare practice. Interestingly, healthcare costs and making costs transparent, let alone VBHC’s actual potential to save costs, seem to receive much less attention in these VBHC debates and practice initiatives. In this session we will discuss this lack of attention and possible underlying reasons, the complexity of using VBHC as a governance mechanism to reduce costs, and what this means for VBHC’s potential to live up to its promise of supporting financial sustainability. We will also discuss how cost-effectiveness (CEA) and VBHC can complement each other by informing decision making at different levels in the healthcare system. The session will be an interactive one combining insights from researchers from ESHPM and people working with VBHC in practice, including a clinician, a patient representative, an insurer and a policy maker.
Outline of the session:
- Four short introductions from ESHPM researchers:
- Gijs Steinmann, MSc: the Dutch debate on VBHC; where are the costs?
- Prof. Anne Stiggelbout: shared decision making; will the cost saving come from patients?
- Dr Frank Eijkenaar: changing the financial incentives: from volume to value (including costs)
- Prof. Maureen Rutten-van Mölken: complementarity of CEA and VBHC
- 5-minute pitches by external speakers, followed by interactive panel discussion, led by Hester van de Bovenkamp, with external speakers:
- Prof. Diana Delnoij (National Healthcare Institute and ESHPM)
- Dr Arthur Hayen (Menzis)
- Prof. Angelique Weel-Koenders (Maasstad Hospital and ESHPM)
- Daphne Voormolen, MSc (ESHPM)
While many healthcare systems have polices aimed to promote an equitable access to healthcare and reduce health inequalities there are still large inequalities in health within and between countries. In this panel session we will have several presentations related to inequalities in health, access to healthcare and legal and ethical principles underlying healthcare policies. After these presentations we will have a discussion based on case studies and several propositions highlighting the tensions between healthcare policies, individual choices/responsibilities and ethical principles.
Outline of the session:
- Dr Bram Wouterse (ESHPM): Inequalities in health before and after Covid-19
- Dr Vivian Reckers (ESHPM): Equity considerations in cost effectiveness analysis
- Prof. Hans van Kippersluis (Erasmus School of Economics): The interplay between genes and the environment in producing health inequalities
- Interactive part led by Dr Igna Bonfrer (ESHPM) and Dr Eline Linthorst (ESHPM): Worldwide inequalities in access to vaccines and the right to health
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown there is a need for our healthcare system to become more resilient. The pandemic also showed us what it means to be resilient, as on each level people needed to improvise and respond to continuously changing conditions. During this session we will reflect on the experiences of professionals, managers and policymakers in long term care with crisis management and caregiving during the pandemic. We will end with a panel discussion on the lessons to be learned from these experiences. How can we strengthen healthcare systems in long-term care to increase resilience? How can we be prepared for the unexpected?
Outline of the session:
- Dr. Jeroen van Wijngaarden (ESHPM): Crisis management of managers in Dutch nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Dr. Renée Scheepers (ESHPM): Well-being and resilience of health care professionals in Dutch nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Andrea Frankowski, MSc (NSOB): From policy reflex to reflexive policy
- Panel discussion about lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic on how the healthcare system, with a focus on the nursing home sector, can stay resilient during crises. What kinds of policies and decision-making structures do we need? How should we think about workforce issues? And further research do we need to deal with future questions related to resilient healthcare systems?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15.30 Parallel sessions:
- Value-Based Healthcare and Financial Sustainability: An Unfulfilled Promise?
- Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Across the Globe
- Moving Towards Resilient Healthcare Systems
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00 Professor Mike Drummond ‘Economic Evaluation in Healthcare - What Next?’
17:00 – 17:15 Wrap-up of the day by Professor Pieter van Baal
17:15 Reception
- More information
This event will also be livestreamed via YouTube. Click below to view the livestreams of each part of the symposium.
- Symposium Opening & Keynote by Prof. Trish Greenhalgh (10:00-11:15)
- Value-Based Healthcare and Financial Sustainability: An Unfulfilled Promise? (11:30-13:00)
- Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Across the Globe (11:30-13:00)
- Moving Towards Resilient Healthcare Systems (14:00-15:30)
- Keynote by Prof. Mike Drummond and Symposium Closing (16:00-17:15)
