2025 VBHC Congress
The 2025 Value-Based Health Care Congress was held over two days, from 1–2 May 2025, in Melbourne. It brought together national and international leaders to explore how to embed value-based care in practice.
Presented by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association’s Australian Centre for Value-Based Health Care, in partnership with the University of Melbourne and proudly supported by Philips Healthcare, the Congress focused on delivering outcomes that matter to patients and building a more sustainable, equitable health system.
Themes across the program included co-design, funding reform, workforce, and system resilience.
Day one
Day one of the 2025 Value-Based Health Care Congress set the tone, and delegates heard from international keynote speaker Associate Professor Hairil Abdullah on Singapore’s system-wide implementation of value-based care. The day explored leadership, design, and implementation strategies, featuring rich discussions on how to shift from volume to outcomes.
Associate Professor Hairil Abdullah discusses how outcome measurement and artificial intelligence are being used to improve patient outcomes and system performance, offering valuable insights for health reform in Australia and beyond. This presentation highlights the importance of embedding outcomes, not just activity, into every level of the health system.
This presentation showcased a Queensland-based project codesigning a spinal cord injury service delivery model in partnership with consumers. It highlighted how genuine collaboration with people with lived experience is leading to more responsive, person-centred models of care.
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In this presentation, Dr Lisa Miller, Psychiatrist and Medical Director at the WA Eating Disorder Specialist Service, shared the service’s journey toward delivering an integrated continuum of care. A 2023 VBHC Award winner, Dr Miller highlighted how sustained, person-centred pathways across hospital and community services can improve outcomes for people with complex mental health conditions.
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In this presentation from the 2025 Value-Based Health Care Congress, Professor Anthony Scott from Monash University explored the evolving landscape of Australia’s health workforce. He discussed how workforce dynamics are central to the performance and sustainability of health systems, especially in the face of growing demand and rising expectations.
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Day two
On the second and final day of the 2025 VBHC Congress, ‘VBHC and the Implications for Data’, brought together the heads of key national health data agencies for a discussion on the role of data in driving value-based health care.
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