Integrated Care Solutions

Across the Great Divide: International case studies of integrated models of chronic disease care at the primary-secondary care interface

By Admin / May 14, 2025
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While the integrated care movement continues to expand the boundaries of integrated care, moving on to new conceptual spaces and policy frontiers, there is a widespread sense that the practice on the ground very often remains fragmented. Download the case study PDF Authors Dr Arturo Alvarez-Rosete Lead of Integrated Care Solutions and Senior Researcher International Foundation for…

ICS Case Studies: Across the Great Divide – International case studies of integrated models of chronic disease care at the primary-secondary care interface

By Admin / May 13, 2025
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Crafting service and programme evaluations in the context of Integrated Care

By Niamh Daly Day / February 18, 2025
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  2024 has indeed been a busy and outstanding year for IFIC´S Integrated Care Solutions, which is a service that aims to support the effective implementation and evaluation of integrated care, with a commitment to involving service users and stakeholders at all points of the process. We have successfully completed the research for The Health…

The Kerry Specialist Palliative Care Service: A Case Study Research Evaluation

By Niamh Daly Day / October 5, 2023
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Kerry Specialist Palliative Care Service provides a comprehensive palliative care service in County Kerry that is highly valued by those using the service, families, clinicians, and the entire community. The service provides care in four settings i.e., in a Specialist Inpatient Unit; through a Specialist Palliative Care Community Team; at a Specialist Palliative Care Day…

Ensuring broad participation in designing the evaluation plan of a national integrated care programme

By Admin / February 18, 2023
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The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) was commissioned to deliver Phases 1 and 2 of an independent external evaluation of an Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons (from now on, “the National Programme”). Phase 1 included a Preliminary Engagement session with stakeholders to understand what they perceived the value of an evaluation of the…

A rapid evaluation of a mental health 24/7 crisis response service

By Admin / December 18, 2022
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The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) was asked to conduct an independent rapid retrospective evaluation of a Mental Health 24/7 Crisis Response Service (CRS) that had been operating in a health area of England since its launch in April 2020, hence at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Download the publication PDF

A Rapid Review of the Health Care Home Model in Capital and Coast District Health Board

By Admin / August 22, 2020
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The purpose of this rapid review was to measure progress of the Health Care Home (HCH) model in achieving its aims and to inform the evolution of the model across the Capital and Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) region. The review was commissioned by CCDHB as an independent and objective formative and summative rapid evaluation,…

IFIC Solutions –Supporting Integrated Service Provision reform in Estonia

By Miriam Galvin / October 31, 2018
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The International Foundation for Integrated Care’s Solutions service has embarked on a major project supporting Estonia’s new Social reforms, awarded and funded by the European Commission’s Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS).