Fiona Lyne
Building Trust into Care and Health Systems – Webinar Slides33 DownloadsDownload Now!
30/09/2026 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am –
The second in a two-part webinar series on trust in integrated care, exploring how continuity, care coordination, service design, policy and system change can help build and sustain trust across care and health systems.
Our recent Finance Forum started with a provocation: after decades of integrated care pilots, pioneers and experimentation, why are health systems still so often paying organisations in ways that work against integration? Jacque Mallender and Volker Amelung approached the issue from different perspectives, but there was a striking amount of common ground. Both returned repeatedly…
Across our work at IFIC, we hear from people trying to make integrated care happen while managing the daily pressures of delivering services. They want opportunities to learn directly from others, discuss the challenges they face and develop skills they can use with their teams. Finding the time and resources to do that can be…
In May 2013, I joined the newly established International Foundation for Integrated Care, to support preparations for ICIC14 in Brussels and to lead communications and dissemination for Project INTEGRATE, one of the major European-funded collaborations helping to build the evidence, networks and international profile of integrated care. As the Foundation’s work progressed, I was later…
24/09/2026 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm –
Join IFIC for an interactive Forum Discussion exploring the Finance Pillar of the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care, including integrated financing, funding incentives and the practical changes needed to support integrated, people-centred care.
IFIC Forum Discussion on Health in Context Slides138 DownloadsDownload Now!
09/09/2026 @ 8:30 am – 9:30 am –
Reflecting on IFIC’s Health in Context Forum Discussion, exploring wider determinants of health, place-based approaches and more equitable integrated care.
07/10/2026 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm –
Join IFIC for an interactive Forum Discussion exploring the Learning Pillar of the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care, including how learning systems work in practice, whose knowledge counts and what supports learning over time.
Click here to download the report (PDF) Introduction The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) hosted the fourth in IFIC’s series of forum discussions on the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care in June 2026, bringing together an international panel – spanning lived experience and family carer experience, informal carer advocacy, academic research, and community development…
In this insight, Fiona Lyne reflects on the People as Partners forum discussion, exploring why integrated care requires a shift from involvement to shared power, recognising lived experience, community assets and partnership as central to how care is designed and delivered. The People as Partners pillar has always felt to me less like one pillar…
04/06/2026 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm –
Catch up on IFIC’s 2026 Nine Pillars of Integrated Care Forum exploring people as partners in integrated care, power-sharing, co-production, equity and people-centred care.
22/10/2026 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm –
Join IFIC’s Forum Discussion on Coordination of Care as part of the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care series.
IFIC Director of Communications Fiona Lyne celebrates the ICIC26 awards and the people, projects and partnerships recognised for advancing integrated care across the world, from community-based innovation and culturally responsive care to digital transformation, lived experience and lifetime leadership. ICIC26 Awards Celebrate Global Leadership in Integrated Care From Australia to Argentina, Canada to Singapore,…
In this insight, Fiona Lyne reflects on the presentation of the IFIC Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Guus Schrijvers at ICIC26, honouring his vision, generosity and foundational contribution to the global integrated care community. At ICIC26 in Birmingham, the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) was delighted to present Professor Guus Schrijvers with the…
IFIC Director of Communications Fiona Lyne reflects on ICIC26 Birmingham and the strength of IFIC’s global community, highlighting how diversity of voice, shared ambition and continued adaptation are helping the integrated care movement evolve. One of my strongest reflections from ICIC26 Birmingham is that the International Foundation for Integrated Care’s (IFIC) strength lies in…
12/05/2026 @ All Day –
AICIC26 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 12 May 2026 | Dublin UCD
The policy paper Neighbourhood Health Framework published on 17 March 2026 by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, sets a clear direction. Care closer to home. Stronger multidisciplinary teams. A shift towards prevention. A deeper partnership with communities. None of this is new in principle. Integrated care has been working towards…
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…
An insight from Fiona Lyne, Co-Director, IFIC Ireland I had the pleasure of chairing this recent IFIC Ireland webinar on Evaluating Integrated Care in Ireland: Challenges, Enablers and Lessons for Practice. The session explored how evaluation can help us understand whether change in our health and social care systems is truly improving lives, and how…
As societies across the world experience rapid demographic change, the question of how health and care systems adapt to ageing populations has never been more relevant. In Ireland, this challenge is particularly visible. Our population is growing older at the fastest rate in the European Union, and by 2040 the number of older adults with…
IFIC Annual Survey 2025 Chart Pack586 DownloadsAre shared electronic care records the answer to fragmented care? Download Now!
Health and climate are inseparable. That was the clear thread running through our recent IFIC Ireland webinar on integrated care and the circular economy. We focused on interdependence. The health of people depends on the health of the environments they live in. The way health and care systems themselves use resources also has a direct…
22/10/2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm –
How do we know if integrated care is truly working? This IFIC Ireland webinar examined evaluation in practice, featuring case studies from mental health, Traveller Health, and Crisis Resolution services. Leading experts discussed how evaluation has shaped policy, improved service design, and strengthened patient outcomes across Ireland’s health and social care systems.
23/09/2025 – 24/09/2025 @ All Day –
Catch up on how to prepare and submit your abstract to ICIC26. This webinar covered the submission portal, required format, and practical tips to help your oral, poster, or workshop proposal stand out.
As part of the International Conference on Integrated Care, we had the privilege to join site visits to three outstanding projects in Lisbon, each demonstrating new ways of delivering health and care. 𝟏. 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜ó𝐦𝐢𝐨 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 – 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 At the MAAT Museum, in collaboration with Manicómio, we learned about…
At the All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care (AICIC25), Bernard Gloster, CEO of the Health Service Executive (HSE), offered a candid, reflective, and values-driven view of integrated care-one rooted in the “real world” experience of delivering health and social services. Speaking with the weight of 37 years in public service, Gloster didn’t bring slides or…
Sustainable Integrated Care a legacy of our International Conferences April 2024 Fiona Slides592 DownloadsDownload Now!
26/03/2025 @ All Day –
AICIC25 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 26 March 2025 | Dublin UCD
Winning hearts and minds! The time is now for recognizing the central role of carers in delivering Integrated Care Family carers[1] care for loved ones including children and adults with additional needs, physical or intellectual disabilities, frail older people, those with palliative care needs or those living with chronic illnesses, mental health challenges or addiction. They…
It has been an extremely busy and exciting year for IFIC Ireland with conferences, webinars, speaking engagements, study tours and our Accelerated learning programme. See some updates on the year we had and upcoming activities below. IFIC Ireland National forum (AICIC23) The All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care “People-centred Integrated Care: the right care, in the…
Welcome to IFIC LatAm In the year 2019, a face-to-face meeting took place at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), during which the initiative to establish the Latin American node of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) was born. Subsequently, stemming from this meeting, in the year 2020, a collaborative agreement was signed between UCR…
31/08/2022 @ 4:00 pm –
In Latin America, a participatory process has been developed, driven by an enthusiastic group of people with diverse academic and professional backgrounds, with experience in integrated care and health systems, from various universities, research centres, foundations, associations, networks, as well as other people who get involved as independent professionals.
UNICA4EU aims at helping children and adolescent with cancer through AI: benchmarking algorithms for early detection, diagnosis, treatment, risk scores and patient stratification to build a framework that can improve the stand of care and address unmet needs for patients, caregivers and clinicians.
The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) has today launched a paper in response to the recent resignations of the two most senior members of the team implementing the Sláintecare reform programme in Ireland and the restructuring of the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council.
EU4CHILD is meant to lay the foundations for the development of a multi-purpose crowdsourcing ecosystem for Pediatric Cancer Genomic Data inventory, able to support a set of AI-based services for several types of cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.
Pre-commercial procurement for integrated CARE solutions addressing the Multimorbidity mATRIX in ageing populations. Over 50m people suffer from multimorbidity (PMM) in Europe. Recent reviews find that PMM experience a range of system and professional-related issues with care delivery.
Meet the team North America Virtual Community Jodeme Goldhar Co-Director IFIC CanadaStrategic Advisor, Ontario Health Team (OHT), Canada Walter Wodchis Co-Director IFIC CanadaProfessor, University of Toronto Ross Baker Professor Emeritus Institute of Health Policy, Management and EvaluationUniversity of TorontoCo-lead ALIGN Program for Ontario Health Sylvia Urbanik Knowledge Mobilization Lead Institute…
Welcome to IFIC Australia IFIC Australia is an independent and inclusive network dedicated to inspiring, influencing and advancing integrated care in policy and practice across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Established in 2015, it provides a platform for collaboration, knowledge exchange and practical action aligned with the International Foundation for Integrated Care’s global mission. In…