Towards value-based healthcare - modelling an answer for cancer care delivery

The Australian Health Review is delighted to announce a new feature designed to stimulate healthcare policy debate that promotes an effective, efficient and equitable health system that has the patient at its heart. Our inaugural contribution is from Professor Christobel Saunders AO, renowned breast cancer surgeon and commentator. In this feature, Christobel tackles the topic of value-based care - care that focuses on delivering and measuring health outcomes and using the insights gained to inform expenditure, clinical models and the experience of receiving and giving care. The Australian Health Review welcomes thought provoking manuscripts on this healthcare imperative.