Events

Intermediate Care: Integrated Local and Personal
Meet the Authors Journal Club

The Journal of Integrated Care (JICA) recently published a Special Issue on intermediate care in collaboration with IFICs Intermediate Care SIG members from across the globe.  

To celebrate the publication, IFIC Scotland organised a Meet the Authors Journal Club on January 26^th .  The session was co-hosted by Dr Axel Kaehne, Editor-in-Chief, and by Prof Anne Hendry, Director IFIC Scotland and Helen Tucker Dickson, President, Community Hospitals Association, joint guest editors for the special issue.

Over 30 participants from four continents gathered to discuss seven of the special issue papers. Thanks to the authors for sharing their interesting research and reflections.

You will find the recording here, presentations slides and flyer with author biographies here .

Downloads of the Special Issue papers and editorial are available at:

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1476-9018/vol/29/iss/4

Integrated Care Roundtable
Delivering Outcomes and Value
Dec 6th

Prof Anne Hendry, Director of IFIC Scotland, and Peter Murray, Vice Chair NHS Lothian and Chair of HSCScotland IJB chairs and vice chairs group, welcomed over 100 professionals from across Scotland who had registered for the session.

See the attached files:

Recording: Delivering Outcomes and Value

Flash Report

Organisational, Clinical and Care Governance
Roundtable 13th September

Prof Anne Hendry, Director of IFIC Scotland, and Annemargaret Black, Chief Officer, Clackmannanshire and Stirling IJB, welcomed 137 professionals from across Scotland who had registered for the session. It follows publication in June of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill and the 2021 Feeley report of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care. The Feeley report had proposed establishing a National Care Service (NCS) to set national standards and terms and conditions for social care, bring national oversight and accountability to the sector, create an ethical commissioning and procurement system, amplify the voice of lived experience in redesign and to drive improvements and strategic integration with the NHS. The NCS Bill proposes to establish care boards for social care, social work and community health, directly accountable to Scottish Ministers. At this stage the Bill provides a high level framework for how these new bodies will be constituted, operate and deliver services. Further detail will be set out following consultation and co-design.

See the attached files:

Recording 

Flash Report

Workforce: Capable, Integrated and Fit for the Future
Roundtable 7th June 2022

Prof Anne Hendry, Director of IFIC Scotland welcomed 135 professionals from across Scotland who had registered for the discussion. Anne introduced session co-host Lorna Kelly in her new post as National Strategic Lead for Primary Care, Health and Social Care Scotland. She invited panellists from across Scotland and beyond to explore current workforce challenges and share ideas and innovations.

Download the Workforce: Capable, Integrated and Fit for the Future flash report.

Watch the Workforce: Capable, Integrated and Fit for the Future recording.

Care at Home First
Report of a Virtual Roundtable March 22nd, 2022

Background

The International Centre for Integrated Care, a strategic partnership between the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), the University of the West of Scotland and the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland, is the home of IFIC in Scotland.  The team are hosting a series of virtual Roundtables with Health and Social Care Scotland to explore hot topics in integrated care.  The Flash reports and recordings can be accessed here

Over 100 professionals from across Scotland registered to discuss Care at Home First

Full flash report can be found here

Tracey McMillan, Service Manager – Granite Care Consortium

Dr Jo Bowden  – Round Table Specialist Palliative Care Fife

Dr Douglas Lowdon – Interface Care Workshop

Integrated, Local and Personal

Virtual Round Table

On October 22^nd 2021,  IFIC Scotland hosted a virtual round table to discuss the consultation  on a National Care Service for Scotland.  The session was for our Reference Network partners from health, social care, housing and Third sector organisations and IJB chairs/ vice chairs involved in planning, delivering and assuring health and social care.

Anne Hendry, Director of IFIC Scotland, anchored the dialogue in Christie’s ambitious and visionary report on Public Service reform. She invited participants to consider if, and how, the  proposals for a National Care Service will enable progress against Christie’s four pillars.

Thanks to our speakers and panellists from Scotland and to IFICs CEO Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Prof. Robin Miller, Joint Editor in Chief, International Journal of Integrated Care

A very special thanks to Dr Merja Tepponen,  Chief Development Officer Health and Social Care, South Karelia Social and Health Care District for sharing the inspiring example of integrated health and social care in Eksote.

See the attached files:

Presentations, resources and flash report

Recording 

Feedback of Consultation

Frailty Matters – End of Project Celebration Event

30th September 2021

This event celebrated the conclusion of our two year collaboration with NHS Ayrshire and Arran and the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland in an action research project funded by Burdett Trust for Nursing. Prof. Anne Hendry, Chair Frailty Matters Project Steering Group, introduced the frailty matters team and warmly welcomed 42 participants from across Scotland and 5 colleagues from Northern Ireland and Andalusia.

You will find the flash report and webinar presentations here.

More information on the project can be found here.

Integrated Care in Small Islands – Special Interest Group Symposium

Friday, 23rd September 2022

The 4^th eforum of our Small Islands Special Interest Group warmly welcomed colleagues from ten islands across Europe. Members shared snapshots of what is going well in their system and discussed some of the main challenges for health and care.

Presentations can be found here

Symposium Recording

Flash Report can be found here

Integrated Care in Small Islands – Special Interest Group Forum

Tuesday, 26th April 2022

Karen Leach, reflected on progress in the Strategic Professional Alliance in Guernsey and a new programme to support staff wellbeing.

Tia Hall reported the government in Jersey has a new CEO and is preparing for elections in June.

Claire Bader gave an update on the Wellbeing Partnerships on the Isle of Man, enabling access to   services and community supports in a timely fashion and improving coordination of care.

Morven McPhillips updated on the rich learning from reviewing the governance of an integrated model of care at Bowman Court, a housing facility on Mull adjacent to the community hospital

The Social Care Standards Agency team from Malta highlighted 12 sets of Social Regulatory Standards they have published in the last four years.

You will find the webinar recording here, presentation slides here, and flash report here.

Integrated Care in Small Islands – Special Interest Group eForum

22nd September 2021

The 3rd eforum of our Small Islands Special Interest Group warmly welcomed colleagues from Guernsey, Jersey, Sheltand, Orkney, Malta, Seychelles, Inner Hebrides, and Argyll and Bute. It is great to see our community expanding with participation from new members Dr Rosemarie Finley and Tia Hall from Family Nursing and Home Care Jersey, Dr Angele Ellul French as the new CEO of Malta’s Social Care Standards Agency, and Dr Dawn Moody from Orkney. It was good to be joined by Leigh Mair from the Scottish Rural Health Partnership, Highlands and Islands and by Gillian McCready and colleagues bringing their experience from Argyll & Bute’s Inner Hebridean islands. Members shared snapshots of what is going well on their islands and what are the main challenges for health and care.

Flash report and presentations can be found here

Integrated Care in Small Islands Special Interest Group Forum Tuesday, 26th January 2021

IFICs Small Islands Special Interest Group held an eForum on 26th January, co-hosted by Anne Mills and Oliver Radford from the Isle of Man.

The forum welcomed a new member Maurice Yap from Hong Kong who joined 34 SIG members representing 10 Island regions and strategic partners from Scottish Rural Health Partnership, University of the Highlands and Islands, Rural Wisdom Project, the International Foundation of Integrated Care and the Scholl Academic Centre.

Cheryl Young outlined Hospice at Home, a response to listening to what the Isle of Man community wants.

Karen Leach reflected on #GuernseyTogether and the importance of understanding culture and  heritage when leading transformation

Dr Kirsty Brightwell described innovative virtual community engagement and co-production of an Island Health Service Strategy in Shetland

Prof Vladimir Mozetič, highlighted an integrated Covid response in Primorje – Gorski Kotar County, Croatia which has 11 inhabited islands and mountainous terrain

Dr Nick Guldemond presented plans to create the conditions for community based integrated care in the Caribbean island of Curaçao

You will find the webinar recording here, presentation slides here, and flash report here

Small Islands Special Interest Group Forum, February 2020

In February, our virtual islands forum brought together 63 people from 13 countries. Many thanks to our presenters and participants from Arran, Western Isles, Shetland, Orkney, Isle of Man, Guernsey and Malta and to Colin Turbett for reflections on Principles and Possibilities of rural Social Work in Scotland.

A link to the presentations can be found here and a link to the forum recording can be found here.

Related resources on rural social work practice are available from Iriss by the following links:

Rural Social work in Scotland

Community Social Work in Scotland