People as partners in care

The role of hospitals in the integrated care systems of the future across the orld

The role of hospitals in the integrated care systems of the future across the world

By Admin / November 16, 2021
Integrated care has historically been defined conceptually by the problems it has aimed to solve, namely fragmentation of services, health systems not designed for the needs of an aging population living with multiple chronic diseases, and under-resourced primary care. Download the publication PDF Strategy A4 PDF Read More

ICIC20 – Improving integration for people with dementia and their families

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 8G - Improving integration for people with dementia and their families chaired by Mrs Leo Lewis and Dr. Nereide Curreri Presentations and Speakers: Self-management of dementia by family carers: A hybrid concept analysis Dr Sharyn Hunter VirtuAAL: Technological Solution based on Virtual Reality computer games for cognitive training for the elderly Ms Begoña García-Zapirain… Read More

ICIC20 – Empowering families and communities

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 8F - Empowering families and communities chaired by Viktoria Stein Presentations and Speakers: Baby Resuscitation: the impact and the hidden benefits Dr Anna McManus and Dr Yuheng Zhou Project “I Feel – Mental Hygiene and Emotional Literacy of Young People” – an example of intervention in the community Dr Ivana Portolan Pajić Empowering Parents… Read More

ICIC20 – Self-management and Co-production – Session 4

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 8D - Self-management and Co-production - Session 4 chaired by Lisa Kidd Presentations and Speakers: From Good to Great – insights, learnings and a change of perspective on patient involvement at Karolinska University Hospital (KUH) Mrs Anna Blommengren and Mr Eskil Degsell Developing a discrete choice experiment to understand preferences for self-management support from… Read More

ICIC20 – Intermediate Care – Session 3 – in association with Intermediate Care SIG

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 8C - Intermediate Care - Session 3 - in association with Intermediate Care SIG chaired by Prof. Anne Hendry and Ms Mandy Andrew. Presentations and Speakers: Healthcare utilisation following pharmacist case management of older people in intermediate care. Mrs Ann Doherty Integrating Care from Home to Hospital to Home: Development of Provincial Transition in… Read More

ICIC20 – Palliative and End of Life Care – Session 2

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 8A - Palliative and End of Life Care - Session 2 - in association with the Palliative and End of Life Care SIG chaired by Anne Mills Presentations and Speakers: Attitudes and knowledge about palliative care among citizens of Croatia: a case study of two cities with and without established palliative care service Prof… Read More

ICIC20 – Capacity Building in Integrated Care – Session 3

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7J - Capacity Building in Integrated Care - Session 3 chaired by Dr Viktoria Stein Presentations and Speakers: Closing the organizational gap between formal- and informal care in neuro-oncology to achieve fully integrated care. Mr Eskil Degsell How can the cancer patient`s family be integrated in Integrated care? Ms Monica Solberg Integrated care for… Read More

ICIC20 – Integrated Care and Diabetes – Session 2

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7I - Integrated Care and Diabetes - Session 2 chaired by Mrs Leo Lewis Presentations and Speakers: ICT based Empowerment of Diabetic Patients: the PROEMPOWER value-based procurement Mr Vincenzo De Luca Western Sydney Diabetes: An integrated program for diabetes prevention, management, and control in Sydney, Australia Prof Glen Maberly Piloting an Integrated Care Model… Read More

ICIC20 – Workshop – Integrated Personalized Diabetes Management goes Europe – Co-creating Approaches for Better Outcomes

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7H - Workshop - Integrated Personalized Diabetes Management goes Europe – Co-creating Approaches for Better Outcomes Presentations and Speakers: Integrated Personalized Diabetes Management goes Europe – Co-creating Approaches for Better Outcomes Prof. Dr. Freimut Schliess, Dr. Dagmar Kownatka, Claus Cramer-Petersen and Karsten Vrangbæk Read More

ICIC20 – Supporting children and families with specific conditions

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7F - Supporting children and families with specific conditions chaired by Jenny Miller Presentations and Speakers: Phase 2 of integrated care initiative aiming to improve management of paediatric asthma Ms Emma Dickins Scaling paediatric integrated care for chronic and medically complex children living in rural New South Wales, Australia Ms Emma Dickins Adolescent Depression… Read More

ICIC20 – Self-management and Co-production – Session 3

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7D - Self-management and Co-production - Session 3 chaired by Mrs Sara Redmond Presentations and Speakers: Researching what matters to people: Developing Core Outcome Sets for Self-Management Interventions in Chronic Diseases Ms Marta Ballester Santiago Involving young people with a chronic condition in participatory research and implementation projects: what is the impact? Ms Femke… Read More

ICIC20 – Intermediate Care – Session 2

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7C - Intermediate Care - Session 2 chaired by Dr Marco Inzitari Presentations and Speakers: Workforce planning for Integrated Care: a story of operational success. Ms Margaret Curran An Integrated Model of Environmental Care for a Patient Discharged from the Emergency Department - A Comparative Analysis of Meeting the Needs of Emergency Department Patients… Read More

ICIC20 – Palliative and End of Life Care – Session 1

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 7A - Palliative and End of Life Care - Session 1 chaired by Mrs Anne Mills Presentations and Speakers: Development of a transitional cross-boundary supportive care service for advanced heart failure patients Ms Clea Atkinson and Prof. Zaheer Yousef Needs assessment for person-centred palliative and end of life care in the Isle of Man… Read More

ICIC20 – Intermediate Care – Session 1

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 6I - Intermediate Care - Session 1 chaired by Prof Anne Hendry Presentations and Speakers: An integrated hospital-to-home transitional care intervention for older adults with multimorbidity and depressive symptoms: A pragmatic effectiveness-implementation trial Dr Rebecca Ganann Two European examples of acute geriatric units in intermediate care facilities, for older adults with exacerbated chronic conditions… Read More

ICIC20 – Design, assessment and implementation of services for people with mental health conditions

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 6E - Design, assessment and implementation of services for people with mental health conditions chaired by Dr Jason Yap Presentations and Speakers: Initial Results of the Design and Implementation of an Integrated Perinatal Mental Health Partnership Dr Cara English, Ms Diane Ortega and Mrs Belinda Hodder Equally Well. A collective impact approach to integration… Read More

ICIC20 – Self-management and Co-production – Session 2

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 6D - Self-management and Co-production - Session 2 chaired by Ms Mandy Andrew Presentations and Speakers: Post operative exercise guidance app (BAPSApp Wales) for breast cancer patients empowers patients and reduces problems with positioning for radiotherapy Ms Donna Egbeare and Mrs Kate Baker An eHealth application to support vulnerable mother and child dyads: design… Read More

ICIC20 – Polypharmacy and Adherence management: what does it take to scale-up? – in association with the Polypharmacy and Adherence SIG

By Miriam Galvin / January 29, 2021
Session 6C - Polypharmacy and Adherence management: what does it take to scale-up? - in association with the Polypharmacy and Adherence SIG Presentations and Speakers: Welcome and Introduction Dr Albert Alonso The building blocks of medication safety and polypharmacy Mrs Alpana Mair Prerequisites for successful implementation of Comprehensive Medication Management services at a primary care… Read More

ICIC20 – Approaches to case finding and risk stratification

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 5J - Education or knowledge exchange: preparing for the future chaired by Mr Phillip Davies Presentations and Speakers: International Interprofessional Mentorship for New Clinicians Dr Kate Barlow and Mr David Thomforde French national team-training hospital programme (Pacte) : results from the pilot phase assessment Dr Candice Legris Improving Critical Thinking Skills in master integrated… Read More

ICIC20 – Improving the integration experience of people with mental health conditions

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 5E - Improving the integration experience of people with mental health conditions chaired by Mrs Leo Lewis Presentations and Speakers: Mental health and well-being in rural communities - factors associated with suicide, and integrated responses Ms Robyn Considine FULL OUTCOME REPORT from the IBBIS randomized controlled trial [DK]: Integrated vocational rehabilitation and mental health… Read More

ICIC20 – Self-management and Co-production – Session 1

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 5D - Self-management and Co-production - Session 1 chaired by Ms Mandy Andrew and Mr Robert Johnstone Presentations and Speakers: Partnering to spread & scale: How two health systems came together to better the integrated care experience Mr Shiran Isaacksz and Dr Carolyn Gosse Co- Production and Participatory Evaluation in combination - Is this… Read More

ICIC20 – Polypharmacy and Adherence

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 5C - Polypharmacy and Adherence chaired by Dr Albert Alonso and Mrs Alpana Mair Presentations and Speakers: Inappropriate prescribing among older people in intermediate care: prevalence, pharmacist intervention and predictors of improved prescribing Mrs Ann Doherty Journey from Clinical Pharmacist to Pharmacist Prescriber – Primary Care Collaborative Care Model Aiming for Equity and Workforce… Read More

ICIC20 – Involving patients and citizens in health records

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 4J - Involving patients and citizens in health records chaired by Dr Jason Yap Presentations and Speakers: How does the use of patient-accessible health records contribute to patient centered care? A scoping review. Mrs Janine Benjamins Creating User Involving Cross-sectoral Collaborative Models. An action research project in patient care progress across sectors, involving citizens,… Read More

ICIC20 – Digital platforms supporting an ageing society

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 4I - Digital platforms supporting an ageing society chaired by Mrs Sonja Müller Presentations and Speakers: The European Blueprint on Digital Transformation of Health and Care for the Ageing Society Ms Jess Vogt SMILE – Supporting multi-morbidity self-care through Integration, Learning and eHealth Ms Mary Burke The C3-Cloud Approach to Clinical and Technical Co-production… Read More

ICIC20 – Models of Care for Ageing and Frailty – in association with Ageing and Frailty SIG

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 4A - Models of Care for Ageing and Frailty - in association with Ageing and Frailty SIG chaired by Dr Ana M Carriazo Presentations and Speakers: Effectiveness of appropriate care pathways for frail older adults: a pilot study in Valencia (Spain) Dr Tamara Alhambra-Borrás Integrated Care for Older Adults: a struggle for sustained implementation… Read More

ICIC20 – Plenary 4: Improving Integrated Care outcomes across the whole life course

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Plenary 4: Improving Integrated Care outcomes across the whole life course chaired by Dr Jason Yap and Prof Ana Stavljenić Rukavina Presentations and Speakers: In celebration of 20 years of the International Foundation for Integrated Care Prof Nick Goodwin Multidisciplinary and intersectoral child-protection system: Good practice model in long-term health and well-being Prof Gordana Buljan… Read More

ICIC20 – Plenary 3: Integrated care approaches for improving experiences for patients and the workforce

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Plenary 3: Integrated care approaches for improving experiences for patients and the workforce chaired by Edelweiss Aldasoro and Prof Venija Cerovecki Presentations and Speakers: Caring for veterans: Croatia’s experience of providing holistic care in the aftermath of war Prof Marijana Braš Lessons from working with indigenous communities and other vulnerable populations in Australia Danny Vadesz… Read More

ICIC20 – Digital Health: Scaling up and Capacity Building

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Session 3I - Digital Health: Scaling up and Capacity Building chaired by Carmen Paputa Dutu Presentations and Speakers: DigitalHealthEurope twinnings to scale up innovative person-centred integrated care solutions Mr Strahil Birov DIGITAL HEALTH EUROPE: Assessing and supporting capacity-building for ICT-enabled integrated care twinning projects Ms Nieves Ehrenberg Coll CITIZENS’ CO-DESIGN FOR IMPLEMENTING VALUE-BASED IN INTEGRATED… Read More

ICIC20 – Remembering the person

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Session 3G - Remembering the person chaired by Mr Alejandro Gil-Salmerón Presentations and Speakers: Forget dementia, remember the person! Mr Olivier Constant Big Data, Healthcare System and Audience fragmentation: current and future trends and possibilities for media reporting on healthcare topics Ms Leali Osmančević Computational model for comprehensive medical care and monitoring of patients with… Read More

ICIC20 – Workshop – Evaluating Integrated Maternity Care in the Netherlands

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Session 2G - Workshop - Evaluating Integrated Maternity Care in the Netherlands Presentations and Speakers: Evaluating integrated maternity care in the Netherlands; the potentials of a nationwide data-infrastructure Dr Eline De Vries Explaining the data-infrastructure Dr Eline De Vries Using the data-infrastructure to evaluate integrated maternity care policies Ms Zoë Scheefhals Read More

ICIC20 – Assessment for Ageing and Frailty

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Session 2A - Assessment for Ageing and Frailty chaired by Prof Anne Hendry. Presentations and Speakers: Who is safe? Welfare technology and the feeling of safety for older adults receiving reablement services at their homes and older adults with dementia living at their homes. Experiences from Norway. Dr Mariya Bikova Co-creating towards next-generation frailty assessment… Read More

ICIC20 – Workshop – Multidisciplinary policies and practices to support and empower informal carers in Europe

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Session 1J - Workshop - Multidisciplinary policies and practices to support and empower informal carers in Europe Presentations and Speakers: Multidisciplinary policies and practices to support and empower informal carers in Europe Mr Stecy Yghemonos Promoting the needs and added value of informal carers across the EU Mr Stecy Yghemonos Working together to identify, support… Read More

ICIC20 – Integrated Care and Diabetes – Session 1

By Miriam Galvin / January 27, 2021
Session 1D - Integrated Care and Diabetes – Session 1 Presentations and Speakers: Development and evaluation of a decision support system for integration of primary diabetes and periodontal healthcare Dr Kirsten Smits Periodontal treatment and diabetes-related healthcare costs: Results from a large retrospective study Dr Kirsten Smits Read More

Cost and effects of integrated care

By Miriam Galvin / July 7, 2020

Governments across high-income countries are challenged to contain the relentless increase in health expenditure, which is partly driven by ageing populations and an associated increase in the prevalence of chronic disease.

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WEBINAR: IFIC Australia Webinar Series 2020 – Case management – Making a unique contribution to integrated care

By Admin / March 27, 2020

Case management in various forms is often used, although poorly understood. This webinar will explain case management as a care coordination strategy for individuals. Quality analysis and macro to micro practice issues are explored through examples.

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WEBINAR: IFIC Ireland – Making Integrated Care Happen – Session 2 – Palliative & End-of-Life Care in Ireland in partnership with the Iri

By Admin / March 10, 2020

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 spe

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 4 – Appropriate Polypharmacy & Adherence

By Admin / January 22, 2020

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/ific-scotland-integrated-care-matters-webinar-series-4#1580819241642-071b6998-5ab3

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 4 – Preventing and Managing Frailty

By Admin / December 19, 2019

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/ific-scotland-integrated-care-matters-webinar-series-4#1578314820442-ed8703db-70fc

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 4 – Self Management and Co-production

By Admin / October 24, 2019

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/ific-scotland-integrated-care-matters-webinar-series-4#1574852134822-9263f80f-fa06

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WEBINAR: IFIC Australia Webinar Series 2019 – Person-Centered Care – Paradox or tautology?

By Admin / September 25, 2019

While we may say that the patient’s perspective should be the “organising principle of service delivery” do we really mean it? How is our understanding of integration informed by the patient perspective and are the two concepts incidentally related o

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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: Developing clinical guidelines for the management of menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors:

By Admin / August 8, 2019

Developing clinical guidelines for the management of menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors: process evaluation
Carmel Davies, School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, IE
Elizabeth Summersby, Oncology, Our L

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