University of the West of Scotland
IFIC Scotland Conference Report Celebrating a Decade of Health and Social Integration in Scotland 5 November 2025 – Clydebank, Glasgow Jump to a section Introduction IFIC Scotland convened The Power of Us: A Festival of Learning on 5 November 2025 in partnership with the International Foundation for Integrated Care, the University of the West of…
27/11/2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Community Hospitals Integrated Care Matters Webinars Series 9: Care at Home When Presented by This webinar will bring together international speakers to share examples of policy and practice from Japan, Sweden, Italy and the UK that illustrate the contribution of community hospitals to integrated care and support closer to home. We are pleased to co-host […]
24/06/2020 @ All Day –
The first session in IFIC Scotland Integrated Care Matters: Build Back Better Webinar Series focusing on Enhanced healthcare support in care homes – from rhetoric to reality.
22/07/2020 @ All Day –
IFIC Scotland: Reimagining Rehabilitation and Recovery Webinar
14/10/2020 @ All Day –
IFIC Scotland Integrated Care Matters: Build Back Better Webinar Series. Chaired by Anne Mills, guest panelists include Prof. Gunn Grande, Alison Christian, Lisa Rae and Dr Max Watson
09/12/2020 @ All Day –
IFIC Scotland Integrated Care Matters: Build Back Better Webinar Series. Chaired by Anne Hendry and Chris Humphris, guest panelists include Kathleen McGuire, Charlotte Hamer, Dr. William Lumb, Professor Martin J Vernon and Sonia Borthwick.
14/05/2020 @ All Day –
This month our webinar is brought to you in collaboration with IFICs Special Interest Group on Social leadership, collective action, and kindness.
27/10/2021 @ All Day –
Independent sector staff are crucial and a massive part of that system. Good communication is essential for integration of care. Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic approach to the analysis of practice, performance and efforts to improve performance and can be applied in many areas
of practice
22/05/2024 @ All Day –
Integrated care for older people with frailty has a growing evidence base. This webinar considered the valuable contribution of housing, proactive telecare and digital solutions to enable care closer to home and successful transitional care. We are delighted to have had presentations from Woodgreen, Ontario, Bield Housing & Care Scotland, and University of Galway, Ireland.
19/06/2024 @ All Day –
Many countries are adopting new models of specialist multidisciplinary assessment, care and support in the community to improve continuity and coordination of care and enable older people to maintain their functional ability and independence for as long as possible. In a collaboration with IFICs Special Interest Group on Polypharmacy and Adherence, speakers from Canada, UK and Belgium will prompt discussion on the actions we can take to optimise pharmaceutical care in the design and delivery of care closer to home.
20/03/2024 @ All Day –
Integrated care for older people with frailty has a growing evidence base. This webinar compared and contrasted three very different services, all making a unique contribution to care closer to home: a Hospital at Home and intermediate care team from Barcelona, an early supported discharge and community stroke rehabilitation service from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and a day hospital based rehabilitation service from SE Sydney, Australia.
08/11/2023 @ All Day –
Proactive care identifies and targets people at risk of poor health and social outcomes and provides coordinated and tailored support to help them stay well. Part of Integrated Care Matters Series 8.
26/09/2024 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm –
This webinar brought together international speakers who shared their self management experiences and examples of what is working well in practice from personal journeys of self management of long term conditions, to what it means for healthcare professionals to adapt their practice to support self management and to wider organisational journeys as health and social care services adopt more person-centred ways of working.
IFIC Scotland’s end of year blog mentioned our ‘Frailty Matters’ project, funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing. I am pleased to share some more detail about this innovative collaboration between the ALLIANCE, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), IFIC Scotland and the Queens Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS). Frailty…
On the 12th November ten students from the MSc Leading People-centred Integrated Care at the University of the West of Scotland joined me in a conversation with IFIC Scotland’s Reference Network. The virtual session was organised to allow the students to share their experiences of participating in the Masters programme, now in its 3rd year.…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….. that pretty much sums up 2020. The dreadful global impact of COVID-19 disrupted our workplan but IFIC Scotland still managed to achieve some key milestones. In March we successfully concluded our Transforming Together project with colleagues from São Paulo State Secretary of Health…
18/11/2020 @ All Day –
The pandemic had presented an opportunity for a new primary care but what this looked like it was still to be seen.