Professor Sally Lewis is a distinguished leader in the field of value-based healthcare with a remarkable career spanning 30 years as a general practitioner, medical leader and policy advisor. She is now an international consultant on value-based healthcare system transformation and is Professor of Value in Health Management at Swansea University’s value-based health and care academy. Her work has been recognized by global institutions including the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School, Bertelsmann-Stiftung, the OECD, HTAi and the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association.
Sally Lewis has written a powerful and practical guide to one of the most urgent challenges in healthcare today. Drawing on real-world lessons from Wales and beyond, she shows how value-based healthcare can improve patient outcomes while making systems more sustainable. A must-read for clinicians, policymakers, and leaders seeking a path to better health outcomes for individuals and communities. - Professor Zoe Wainer, Deputy Secretary, Community & Public Health at Victorian Department of Health, Melbourne, Australia This is an essential history of the value-based healthcare mindset and method, and a pragmatic guidebook for local, national, and global healthcare transformation. Through examples and frank assessment of the hard work required, she reminds us that getting to the summit of value is a team effort, and our compass must ever be the health outcomes important to patients. - Jennifer Bright, President & CEO, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)