The Collaborating Centre has been set up to support the development of values-based practice through shared learning. Based at St Catherine’s College in Oxford the Centre brings together a wide range of individuals and organisations working on different aspects of values-based practice around the world. Although originating primarily in mental health and social care a particular aim of the Collaborating Centre is to support extension of values-based approaches to other areas of health care such as surgery.
The Centre has been set up to facilitate collaborations between individuals and organizations concerned to develop more effective ways of working with values in health and social care.
The Centre focuses particularly on values-based approaches. This includes developing effective links with other resources for working with values (such as ethics and law, health economics, decision analysis and various areas of the medical humanities). It also includes building links with evidence-based practice. Integral to the work of the Centre is the idea that values-based and evidence-based approaches are equal partners in clinical care.
Values-based Practice (VBP) is a clinical skills-based approach to working with complex and conflicting values in healthcare. It is a twin framework to evidence-based practice (EBP).
Values-based practice (VBP) is an approach to working with complex and conflicting values in healthcare that is:
Complementary to other approaches to working with values (such as ethics) in focusing on individual values
A partner to evidence-based practice in supporting clinical judgment in individual cases
In focusing on individuals in this way VBP links science with the unique values of the particular people involved (as clinicians, patients, carers and others) in a given clinical decision.
The core activities of the Centre are based around three inter-linked areas – Education and Training, Regulation and Guidance, and Integration and Teamwork – together with crosscutting themes of Theory and Practice.
The Centre has over two hundred Organisational Partners and Individual Partners contributing in different ways to one or more of these areas. We are grateful to all our partners and Network Members for their encouragement and active support across such a wide range of activities.
We are also grateful to the members of our Founder Advisory Board for support and advice during the first five years of the project.
The Centre is mainly web-based but also supports Advanced Studies Seminars at St Catherine’s College and other activities. We make regular announcements about the activities of the Centre, Networks, and Project Partners.
Our most recent announcements are listed below and you can also visit our Announcements Archive for a comprehensive archive of all announcements and news items. Project partners will also receive regular news and updates by email.
The aim of our Meetings, and Advanced Studies Seminars is to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and development of ideas in cutting edge areas of working with values in health and social care. Meetings may be online, in person or both.
Our most recent meeting details are listed below and you can also visit our Meetings and Advance Studies Seminars page for more details of forthcoming and past meetings.
If you have any ideas, suggestions or queries or would like further information please contact us
The wikiVBP Reference Library aims to provide a focused resource of literature and other materials supporting training, research and policy developments in values-based practice.
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Core activities of the Centre are based around three inter-linked areas, Education, Regulation and Integration, together with crosscutting themes of Theory and Practice
