Integrated Care For All: Promoting Health and Wellbeing Through Diversity

ICIC26 Insights

Perspectives from the Conference

Following the 26th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26), delegates and speakers from across the world reflected on the conversations, connections and shared learning that took place in Birmingham.

This page brings together reflections from those who contributed to the conference, highlighting the themes that resonated most strongly, the challenges explored throughout the programme, and the opportunities identified to continue strengthening integrated care in practice.

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We keep redesigning systems, but integrated care only works when we redesign power.

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Integrated Care Meets a City Built on Connection

David Hambleton at ICIC26 Health Pathways Streamliners

Pathways Are Where Integrated Care Becomes Real

Annefrans van Ede and Marc Bruijnzeels at the ICIC26 Population Health Management pre-conference

Population Health Management: Lessons from the ICIC26 Pre-Conference Workshop

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Honouring the Legacy of Dr Rocío Sáenz: Equity, Leadership and Integrated Care

Mokita

From Intention to Implementation: Embedding Anti-Racism in Integrated Care

Gastón Perman

ICIC26 in Birmingham: What I’m Taking Home

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Metrics, Leadership and Capacity: Advancing Integrated Care in Latin America

Áine Carroll presents Tara Marshall with the Best Overall Integrated Care Award for work on how digital innovation, workforce development, and system-wide collaboration can work together to strengthen integrated care across and entire system.

Tara Marshall: Overall Winner at ICIC26 for Integrated Care in Practice

Fiona Lyne and Tara Marshall

A Movement Built Around People – Reflections from ICIC26:

Brian J Dunne

What Happens on Monday? Moving Integrated Care from Ideas to Action

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Family Carers and Lived Experience: Turning Integrated Care Conversations into Action

Nine Pillars ICIC26 stage

Productive Tensions: Reflections on Launching the Revised Nine Pillars

Lorna Kerin

From Global Conversations to Local Action: Reflections from a Regional Representative of HSE Dublin and South East

Laurel team at ICIC26

Is Your Care Organisation Ready to Go Digital? Lessons from Laurel’s DMAT

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Seeing Integrated Care from the Inside: Reflections from a First ICIC

Integrated Care Awards 2026

ICIC26 Awards Celebrate Global Leadership in Integrated Care

Aine Carroll and Guus Schrijvers

Honouring Professor Guus Schrijvers with the IFIC Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiona Lyne

Diversity, Unity and the Continuing Evolution of Integrated Care

Claudine Cousins

Integrated Care in Action: Lessons, Inspiration, and the Importance of Lived Experience

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Rapid Evaluation and Integrated Care: Reflections from ICIC26

Anneli Taal

Systems Must Be Designed Around People, Not Organisations

Diane Whitehouse

AI and Integrated Care: A Game Changer

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The Real Work of Integration Is Not the Grand – It’s the Grind

Isabel Henderson at ICIC26

Integrated Care Is No Longer Optional: Tempering the Acute Care Surge

Jon Glasby

Integrated Care – the Next Generation

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Finding Your People: Community, Connection and Neighbourhood Care at ICIC26

Fleming Initiative

Putting antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention on the Integrated care agenda: Lessons from ICIC26

ICIC26 Canadian Delegation

Canada’s Path Towards Integrated Primary Health Care: Reflections from ICIC26

Mick Kunze - ICIC26

A Tale of Mutuality and Reciprocity – The Path Forward for Engaging with People with Lived Experience