Health and Social Care Board

AICIC25 Partnership Brochure

By Admin / December 9, 2024
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AICIC25 Partnership Brochure448 DownloadsIFIC Ireland in association with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), the Health Service Executive (HSE Ireland), Department of Health, Northern Ireland, Sláintecare, University College Dublin and Ulster University presents “Building a Better Future: Radical Workforce Innovations for Person-centred Integrated Care” on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at O’Reilly Hall, University College…

Medium and Long-term impact of Covid-19 – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / December 2, 2020
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02/12/2020 @ All Day –

This webinar focuses on the medium and long term impacts of Covid-19 on the person and the implications for health and social care delivery.

Rehabilitation Care – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / October 25, 2020
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25/10/2020 @ All Day –

The webinar focuses on rehabilitation care and how various initiatives in Ireland are enhancing the experience of integrated care for patients, informal caregivers and health care professionals.

Michelle Nelson and Cormac Russell in Conversation: Community in Integrated Care – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / October 7, 2020
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07/10/2020 @ All Day –

As part of IFIC Ireland’s 2020 webinar series Making Integrated Care Happen, Cormac Russell and Michelle Nelson will discuss the opportunities and challenges now presented to realising Integrated Community Care based on community strength, co-production and intersectoral working throughout our communities, organisations, and systems.

Inclusion Health and understanding the Social Determinants of Health – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / August 11, 2020
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11/08/2020 @ All Day –

Inclusion health is a service, research, and policy agenda that aims to prevent and redress health and social inequities among the most vulnerable and excluded populations. Addressing social inequalities to ensure the best health outcomes for populations at risk at the earliest possible point of intervention can help to benefit lifelong health.

Palliative & End-of-Life Care in Ireland in partnership with the Irish Hospice Foundation – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / March 10, 2020
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10/03/2020 @ All Day –

IFIC Ireland and the Irish Hospice Foundation are delighted to partner on the second webinar in our 2020 series focussed on Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Ireland. Rebecca Lloyd, Public Engagement Officer for the Irish Hospice Foundation will speak about the importance of Advance Care Planning and the Think Ahead programme operated by the Irish Hospice Foundation which enables individuals to think and plan ahead for their end of life care.

Social Prescribing: Initiatives on the Island of Ireland – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / February 18, 2020
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18/02/2020 @ All Day –

Social prescribing, sometimes referred to as community referral, is a means of enabling GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services.

Open health data and health literacy – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / October 13, 2021
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13/10/2021 @ All Day –

Daily Covid-19 case numbers, hospital occupancy, vaccines administered and the focus on data availability and modelling of the Covid-19 pandemic have occupied news headlines for more than 18 months.

Trust and transparency in predictive medicine and machine learning supports to the patient journey – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / September 29, 2021
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29/09/2021 @ All Day –

The deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to support clinical decision-making, screening programs, patient self-management and stratify populations on the basis of health risk is increasing across of sectors of health care.

Continuous Quality improvements: measuring success and sharing learning – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / September 15, 2021
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15/09/2021 @ All Day –

Continuous quality improvement in healthcare is “the systematic use of methods and tools to try to continuously improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients” (Kings Fund, 2019). Monitoring progress and measuring success to understand the impact of change and improvements are vital steps in the process.

Enabling Virtual Care – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / September 1, 2021
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01/09/2021 @ All Day –

Virtual care has experienced unpredictable rapid growth across the globe with the onset of Covid-19. The initial response to reduce clinical interventions across all levels of care so that priority for treatment could be afforded to those most impacted by the disease required health and social care systems to swiftly implement, scale and support virtual care options to provide appropriate interventions and continuity of care for all.

How can digital solutions support self-management – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / July 7, 2021
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07/07/2021 @ All Day –

The proliferation of remote health monitoring options, reduced cost and time to delivery for mobile apps combined with a pressing need to reduce physical and social contacts in the time of a pandemic, has lead to swift implementation of innovative solutions.

Virtual Visiting and Peer Supports: virtual supports in a time of reduced social contact – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / June 23, 2021
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23/06/2021 @ All Day –

While there has been an emphasis on maintaining medical interventions with telemedicine in the past 12 months, the importance of social contact to recovery during acute health episodes cannot be underestimated.

The Population Health Approach- Realising Integrated Care Series 2022

By Admin / December 14, 2022
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14/12/2022 @ All Day –

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.

Living Well as Possible: Lessons from Palliative and EoLC for the Health and Care Community – Realising Integrated Care Series 2022

By Admin / September 15, 2022
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15/09/2022 @ All Day –

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?

How to get published – Realising Integrated Care Webinar Series 2022

By Admin / September 6, 2022
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06/09/2022 @ All Day –

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.

Leading an innovative approach to prevention, community care and integration of care in Ireland – Realising Integrated Care Series 2022

By Admin / May 24, 2022
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24/05/2022 @ All Day –

This workshop was organised in partnership with HSE & IFIC Ireland reflected on this innovative approach to testing and piloting new ways of working and new models of care that shifted care from the hospital to the community and focused on prevention.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: In reach into Nursing Homes Education, Training and Development Programme

By Admin / October 17, 2017
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In reach into Nursing Homes Education, Training and Development Programme
Authors: Anne-Marie O’Boyle, Elizabeth Graham, Mandy Ellis
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When nursing home residents  become acutely unwell they are often referred to hospital for sometimes aimless

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: Integrated Care Partnerships Northern Ireland – Leading Integration; Delivering Better Outcomes

By Admin / October 17, 2017
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Integrated Care Partnerships Northern Ireland – Leading Integration; Delivering Better Outcomes
Authors: Sinead Malone, Martin Hayes
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Introduction: Seventeen Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs) were established across Northern Ireland in 2013

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: Compassionate Communities – From frailty to community resilience – making a public health approach to end of life care a reality

By Admin / October 17, 2017
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Compassionate Communities – From frailty to community resilience – making a public health approach to end of life care a reality
Authors: Linda Morris, Margaret McDaid
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Foyle Hospice and the Western Integrated Care Partnership recognised the

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: Project ECHO NI

By Admin / October 17, 2017
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Project ECHO NI
Authors: Áine McMullan, Max Watson
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Introduction: Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) http://ECHO.unm.edu is a pioneering telementoring programme developed in the School of Medicine at  University of Ne