IFIC Ireland Realising Integrated Care 2022 Webinar Series
Realising Integrated Care
IFIC Ireland will host and facilitate a series of webinars from May 2022 titled ‘Realising Integrated Care’ which forms one of the key delivery mechanisms enabling knowledge mobilisation across all stakeholders with an interest in developing and implementing integrated care within the healthcare systems on the island of Ireland.
It is important that those taking integrated care forward are enabled to share their experience, success and failures with others. Spread and sustainability can be accelerated if innovators and leaders are supported to work together in learning networks through which information and intelligence can be shared. This helps to avoid the same mistakes being made, can avoid unnecessary duplication of effort and can help build commitment and support by enabling leaders to work together in a community of practice.
It is also important to make it easy for those leading integrated care to access outside expertise, e.g., in identifying what best practice looks like when developing integrated care for older people or learning how best to share information about users across organisations and services. Creating a hub to support learning and development is critical, as is accessing skills in service improvement to support rapid cycles of learning.
Webinars offer a flexible, easy to access learning experience, which answer to the demands of professionals and students alike. By mixing videos and presentations with live question and answer sessions, participants have the chance to ask burning questions in a relaxed and safe environment. The pre-recorded videos, background material and recommended reading lists are available for download after each webinar session. The webinar series are often organised in cooperation with one of IFIC’s partners, and address current topics giving a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in theory as well as illustrating the concepts with numerous practical examples from around the world. The guest speakers are also recruited from our substantive network, thus offering the unique opportunity of asking questions to the leading experts in the field.
Session 2 – How to get published
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 8.30am IST
At IFIC Ireland’s next webinar, attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly with some of the leading names in integrated care, who will share their advice on how to get published.
You will hear from three of the editors of the International Journal for Integrated Care (IJIC), the founder of IFIC, and the President of the Emerging Research Professionals in Integrated Care (ERPIC) group.
Aimed at all those interested in writing scientific papers on their programmes or initiatives, emerging researchers, as well as experienced, published academics, this webinar will allow you to dig deep into the current trends of integrated care publishing and the state of the publishing in this field.
With contributions from three important integrated care journal editors, you’ll get advice on how to collaborate with others, how to structure your submissions, how to adapt your research to meet current topics, and how to make your work stand out.
You will hear from:
Dr Edelweiss Aldasoro,
Joint Editor-in-Chief of IJIC
Dr Robin Miller,
Joint Editor-in-Chief of IJIC
Prof. Viktoria Stein,
Joint Editor-in-Chief of IJIC
Dr Nick Goodwin,
Joint Editor-in-Chief of IJIC
Sebastian Lindblom,
President of ERPIC
Session 3 – Living Well as Possible: Lessons from Palliative and EoLC for the Health and Care Community
Thursday, September 15th 2022 3.00PM IST
IFIC Ireland in association with the All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care invite you to attend a one hour webinar on Living Well as Possible: Lessons from Palliative and EoLC for the Health and Care Community on Thursday, 15 September at 3pm. The webinar is for all those involved in the design and delivery of health and care services across the island of Ireland including people, care givers and families who are interested in learning more about a palliative and end of life, person-centred approach to care.
The focus of palliative care is to improve quality of life, and relieve suffering, for both patients and their carers. Growing evidence supports the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of specialist palliative care. A multi-disciplinary approach that includes hospital based consultants, GPs, primary care services, community pharmacists and community based health and care professionals means that palliative and end of life care can be delivered in a truly integrated way. Also, working with patients and families to understand their preferences and provide care in way that meets their needs leads to a more person-centred and co-designed approach.
As part of Palliative Care Week 2022, we invite you to hear from a range of experts who have been working at system level and in the community to understand what lessons can the broader health and care workforce learn from those working in palliative and end of life care and are there transformative lessons that can be applied elsewhere in the system and across the whole life course?
Speakers:
Professor Xavier Gomez-Bastiste,
Director of the Qualy Observatory of the ICO Chair of Palliative Care University of Vic, Spain.
Download Xavier’s Presentation
Denise Cranston and Dr Tracy Anderson,
South Eastern Trust Rapid Access Hub for Palliative Care, Northern Ireland.
Download Denise and Tracy’s Presentation
Alison Bunce,
Compassionate Inverclyde, Scotland.
Session 4 – IFIC Ireland - The Population Health Approach
Wednesday, December 14th 2022 2.00PM IST
On December 14th from 2pm to 3pm, IFIC Ireland will host a webinar on Population Health, the latest in our Realising Integrated Care series.
As we try to build better integrated care systems, a population health approach is a must. Our panel of experts will discuss their experience in making care more accessible and more effective for local and regional populations and disadvantaged groups.
Speakers will include:
Dr Sarah O’Brien
Office of National Clinical Advisor
and Group Lead (NCAGL) for Chronic Disease
Solvejg Wallyn
Policy Officer at Flemish Community
Agency Care and Public Health
The presentations and Q&A discussion will touch on themes that will be further explored at our International Conference for Integrated Care (ICIC) in Flanders next May, including:
- How can we ensure risk assessment and stratification are included in all the population health approaches?
- How can national and regional care strategies and policies support population health approach?
- How can digital innovations such as digital care support plans enable improved population health approaches?
- How can we know our population better to adapt population health initiatives to the characteristics and needs of the local population?
- How can we collect and include data on a broader range of indicators including social care and support, psychological and mental needs among others, to identify the needs of the population to plan better support services?
- What are the training and education needs for better integrated care at all levels including population health management?
- How can we reach out to the more vulnerable groups to ensure an inclusive approach?
Facilitated by:
Professor Áine Carroll
Áine Carroll is Co-Director of IFIC Ireland and Professor of Healthcare Integration and Improvement/Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at University College Dublin/National Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr Sloan Harper
Sloan Harper is Chair of IFIC Ireland and Director of Integrated Care at the Health and Social Care Board Northern Ireland
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