Abstract
Value-based healthcare (VBHC) has been defined as the measured improvement in a person’s health outcomes and clinical experience against the financial costs.(1) The concept attempts to focus on the issue of reconciling the rising cost of healthcare with improving the outcomes for people who receive care by asking how we can obtain “value” defined as better outcomes at lower cost. More recently the impact of climate change has been added to the equation, defining the “sustainable value” of a service as being measured by the best health outcomes against its economic costs, including environmental and social cost.(2)