Learning
07/10/2026 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm –
Explore IFIC’s Forum Discussion on Learning and how integrated care systems can turn knowledge and experience into action.
An integrated care system is a learning system, co-created with people and communities and grounded in people’s lived experience and what matters to them. It continuously adapts and improves based on evidence, including real-time data and feedback embedded into everyday practice.
Care is delivered, data is collected and analysed, and this is turned into actionable insight to support continuous improvement. It also uses qualitative and quantitative evidence from all relevant partners to ensure that measures of results and impact are comprehensive and understandable.
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…
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.
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.
22/05/2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm –
Drawing on a panel of experienced Australian integrated care practitioners, this webinar seeks to explore our failures in integrated care, and reflect on how we might better design, implement, and evaluate our integrated care initiatives moving forward.
27/03/2024 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am –
In today’s dynamic healthcare landscape, adeptly synthesising evidence is crucial for informed decision-making and impactful service design. Join IFIC Australia for an online seminar exploring the nuances of evidence-based reviews in integrated care.
25/05/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm –
At the 22nd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC22), a session titled “Integrated Care in the Complexity of the Latin American Context: Experiences and Challenges in its Development” took place. This session consisted of two segments. In the first segment, the focus was on the research and practice of integrated care in Argentina. In the second segment, IFIC LatAm was introduced, and the plans for establishing an IFIC node in the region were presented.
Despite many studies evaluating the effectiveness of integrated care, evidence remains inconsistent. Increasingly, commentary on the subject of integrated care evaluation is pointing out the mismatch between the ability to capture the impact of integrated care initiatives and programmes, and the selection of the most appropriate methodology to do this.
VIGOUR effectively supports care authorities in progressing the transformation of their health and care systems to provide sustainable models for integrated care which will facilitate identification of good practice and scaling-up.
Your Voice Matters, a pilot qualitative study of integrated care in Ireland
Aine Carroll, Health Services Executive, IE
Clare Hudson, Health Services Executive, IE
Grace Turner, Health Services Executive, IE
Des Mulligan, Health Services Executive,
National Clinical Programme for Older People: National Frailty Education Programme “Fundamentals of Frailty”
Deirdre Lang, Health Service Executive; Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, IE
Carmel Hoey, Health Service Executive, IE
Diarmuid O’Shea
National Clinical Guideline No 6: Sepsis Management – A Quality Improvement & Safety Initiative
Authors: Christina Doyle , Vida Hamilton, Mary Bedding, Karn Cliffe, Celine Conroy, Sinead Horgan, Ronan O Cathasaigh, Yvonne Young
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Introduction:
Integrated Healthcare for the Frail Older Adult
Authors: Breffni Drumm , Jo Short, Mary Casey, Fiona O’Sullivan, Grainne O’Malley, Paula Hickey
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Background: In Ireland, the proportion of persons aged over 65 years is set to increase from 11.4
Talking about the end – involving service users in an end-of-life care quality improvement initiative in a residential care setting
Authors: Jolene Dervin , Anne Claffey
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Introduction: Staff members in a residential setting for older people p
“The introduction of “What Matters to You”: a quality improvement initiative to enhance compassionate person-centered care in hospitals in Ireland
Authors: Deirdre Lang , Carmel Hoey, Mila Whelan, Greg Price
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Rationale for this initiative: On
A daily multidisciplinary hospital discharge support meeting in an acute hospital: An evaluation of a quality improvement initiative to facilitate timely discharge & transfers of care
Authors: Aoife Mary O’Sullivan , Tim Dukelow, Carmel Walsh, Mary H
Monitoring and Improving Quality Care through the development of an automated audit tool
Author: Susan Daly
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Introduction (comprising context and problem statement) The Health Information and Quality Authority (2016) specify that designated
A Realist Evaluation of a National Model of Care for the Diabetic Foot
Authors: Kate Nuala O’Neill , Sheena M McHugh, Fiona Riordan, Marsha L Tracey, Patricia M Kearney
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Introduction: Diabetic foot disease is a common and costly complication
Chronic Disease Patient Experience of Healthcare Services in Ireland
Author: Valerie Patricia Twomey
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Chronic disease in Ireland is currently reported by 38% of the adult population. Modern integrated health systems recognise that they need
Pressure Ulcers: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Patient Knowledge of Pressure Ulcer Prevention Instrument (KPUP)
Authors: Emer Shanley , Zena Moore, Declan Patton
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Aim: Patient’s right’s to have a central part in the healthcar
Evaluating the impact of integrated change initiatives on wait time for outpatient primary care physiotherapy service
Author: John Nwobo
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Introduction: Widespread public demand for improved access, political pressure for shorter wait times,
Healthcare Evaluation
Authors: Helena Ann Ferris , Audrey Devaney
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The landscape of healthcare delivery is continuously evolving. An appropriate use of research and evaluation is key when assessing not only the need for change but also when i
Developing cultures of person-centredness
Authors: Lorna Patricia Peelo-Kilroe , Margaret Codd, Brendan McCormack, Debbie Baldie
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Introduction: (comprising context and problem statement) A national two year practice development programme too
Advanced Practice Physiotherapy Progressing Integrated Care of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Ireland: a National Evaluation
Authors: Orna Fennelly , Catherine Blake, Oliver Fitzgerald, Roisin Breen, Jennifer Ashton, Aisling Brennan, Caitriona Cunningh
National Quality Assurance & Improvement System (NQAIS) – Medicine
Authors: Howard Johnson , Courtney Garry, Eilish Croke, Mel McIntyre, Pawel Stawarz, Ian Folan, Dougie Beaton, Fionnuala Donohue
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Introduction: Length of stay varies by hospit
A retrospective audit of the ‘Back in Motion Programme’: A stratified group based, physiotherapy programme for patients with Chronic Low Back Pain
Authors: Sarah McShane , Ulrik McCarthy, Dervila Danaher, Dearbhaile Flanagan
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Background: Low
National Theatre Quality Improvement Programme (TQIP) Ireland
Authors: Jeremy Smyth , Ken Mealy, Kieran Tangney, Grace Reidy, Charlie Dineen, Aileen O’Brien, Sinead Fitzpatrick
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In late 2016, a collaborative between the HSE Integrated Care Pr
Investigating the Implementation of a National Pilot Project on Wait List Management using Pooled Inpatient and Day Case Surgical Waiting List between a Level 4 Hospital and a Level 3 Hospital in Ireland
Authors: Gary Keenan , Mandy Lee
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Intr
Assessing National Practice and Preparedness for Integrated Care Delivery Ireland
Authors: Debbie Isobel Keeling , Michael Rigby, Áine Carroll
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Introduction/Theory/Methods: We assess current attitudes, practice and preparedness for Integrated
Improving integration and care through clinical audit: The Irish Hip Fracture Database
Authors: Louise Brent , Emer Ahern, Conor Hurson, Aisling Connolly
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Background: Hip fractures are an increasing socio-economic burden. They are the leading
A Longitudinal Study of Delirium Motor Subtypes in Elderly Medical Inpatients
Authors: Vincent Melvin , David Meagher, Geraldine Mc Carthy, Dimitrios Adamis
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Introduction: Delirium is a common syndrome with considerable clinical heterogeneity