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Reducing vacancy rates in the social care sector requires funded research now

May 29, 2023

Reducing vacancy rates in the social care sector requires funded research now As an academic who thinks that research can have a positive impact I am always seeking the core challenges worthy of research, and the money to do that research properly. At a recent conference on the future of Social Care in Scotland I…

How far do you feel we have advanced in providing continuous and coordinated care?

May 11, 2023

How far do you feel we have advanced in providing continuous and coordinated care? This is the question that we are asking this year through our Annual IFIC Survey 2023, which has been running for a few weeks now. So, if you haven´t done it yet, please take part in the survey below and share…

World Critical Care & Anesthesiology Conference (#2023WCAC)

September 8, 2023

08/09/2023 – 09/09/2023 @ All Day –


IFIC Scotland Integrated Care Matters: Webinar Series 7

September 21, 2022

21/09/2022 – 01/03/2023 @ All Day –

IFIC Scotland and partners are delighted to announce the first webinar in our Integrated Care Matters Series 7. This series will consider innovations in holistic and personalised approaches to integrated care and support.

Each webinar will be accompanied by a topic resource with links to further information. All who register will receive links to the recordings and topic resources.


Integrated Care – Redesigning how we work in healthcare

April 3, 2023

Integrated Care - Redesigning how we work in healthcare Dr Susan Kent, Associate Professor Dublin City University (DCU) IFIC Senior Associate IFIC is delighted to celebrate World Health Worker Week with people and organisations globally. Earlier this month the WHO announced the end of the global Covid-19 pandemic[1]. Health workforces and organisations could be forgiven…

The 46th IHF World Hospital Congress 25 – 27 October 2023

October 25, 2023

25/10/2023 – 27/10/2023 @ All Day –

The International Hospital Federation in partnership with the Portuguese Consortium (APDH, APAH and APHP) are pleased to invite you to the 46th World Hospital Congress. The 46th World Hospital Congress will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 25 to 27 October 2023, with pre-congress activities on 23 and 24 October. All hospital and health service leaders, executives and managers are invited to join the world’s premier congress for healthcare leaders.
The Congress is a unique global forum to share knowledge and good practices, exchange new ideas and innovations, and network with other senior executives from across the international healthcare community.


IFIC is delighted to announce the appointment of David John Harrison to the Board

March 2, 2023

David Harrison, Director and independent healthcare consultant has a public-sector management, economics and commercial background.  He is a qualified chartered accountant and MBA who has worked extensively in the public and private sectors. Since leaving the public sector in 2010, David has established a portfolio career, blending independent consultancy, interim senior management roles, non-executive directorships…

Ensuring broad participation in designing the evaluation plan of a national integrated care programme

February 18, 2023

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) was commissioned to deliver Phases 1 and 2 of an independent external evaluation of an Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons (from now on, “the National Programme”). Phase 1 included a Preliminary Engagement session with stakeholders to understand what they perceived the value of an evaluation of the… Pillars:

Integrated Care Perspective for Children with Cancer

February 15, 2023

Integrated Care Perspective for Children with Cancer Norbert Graf, Saarland University Hospital Today, Wednesday 15th February is with International Childhood Cancer Day. Professor Dr. Norbert Graf, medical director of the Department for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Saarland University Hospital, reminds us of the needs of children and families with cancer and the importance of…

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session – Advancing Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation

March 28, 2023

28/03/2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

IFIC Canada recently held its virtual community on Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care. 400 participants joining from around world from Canada, The United States, Mexico to Lebanon why don’t you join our next webinar on 28th March?


APIC3 – 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Care – Sydney, Australia

November 13, 2023

13/11/2023 – 15/11/2023 @ All Day –

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) in partnership with IFIC Australia and the International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) and supported by University of Sydney, Central Coast Research Institute (CCRI), University of Newcastle, Central Coast Local Health District, Sydney Local Health District, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Children’s Health Queensland, Health Consumers NSW, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN present the 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Care (APIC3) “Building healthcare system sustainability and resilience” which will take place at the Wesley Conference Centre in Sydney from 13-15 November 2023.


AICIC23 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 23 March 2022 | Dublin UCD

March 23, 2023

23/03/2023 @ All Day –

IFIC Ireland in association with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), the Health Service Executive (HSE Ireland), Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSC NI) and Sláintecare presents “People-centred Integrated Care: the right care, in the right place, at the right time” on Thursday, 23 March 2023 in O’Reilly Hall University College Dublin.


The Waterloo Health and Wellbeing Peer Education Program

January 12, 2023

In 2021, Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) participated in the IFIC Autumn School. Over the week, a group comprising SLHD staff, NSW Department of Communities and Justice Housing staff, non-government agencies, social housing tenants and other community members were tasked with designing an integrated care intervention to better support the health and wellbeing needs of residents of the Waterloo social housing estate, in inner Sydney NSW, and improve communication between services and residents.

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IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session – Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care

January 24, 2023

24/01/2023 @ 5:00 pm –

Join us for a deep dive on collaborative governance and how we integrated care is enabled by high performing integrated governance.
In this session, you will have the opportunity to engage about the critical role of collaborative governance in integrated health systems from the perspective of policy-makers, members of collective governance models, researchers and people with lived experience. Dr Mirella Minkman, Dr Paul Wankah and Melissa McCallum will discuss evidence, roles of policy and practical examples of collective governance for integrated care.

This is a session you won’t want to miss as collaborative governance advances in North America and across the world.


Another record-breaking year at IJIC

December 21, 2022

More than 200 submissions were received and almost 100 papers published during 2022. The 20th anniversary editorial has been published, following the launch of the special issue. Always Look on the Bright Side – Lessons Learned from Another Decade of Integrating Care (ijic.org) At ICIC22, IJIC hosted a very successful World Café session dedicated to…

IFIC Scotland: Looking through the Rear Mirror

As we reflect on 2022 our highlight was undoubtedly reconnecting with IFICs global community at ICIC22. Marie Curran supported IFICs communications team by recording voices of lived experience from across the globe to ground the opening plenary. Vicki Cloney and Ann Wardlaw were runners up in the Patient and Caregiver award for their paper about…

Focusing on people, families, and communities in Latin America (IFIC LatAm)

In Latin America, a participatory process has been developed, promoted by an enthusiastic group of people with diverse academic and professional backgrounds, with experience in integrated care and health systems, from various universities, research centers, foundations, associations, networks, as well as other people who get involved as independent professionals. IFIC LatAm makes a decisive contribution…

IFIC Ireland – a year of change and growth

After the pandemic held back our in-person activity, this year was a great opportunity to build on our remote activity and create new opportunities for integrated care in Ireland. All-Ireland Conference for Integrated Care in Dublin In March, we held the first annual All-Ireland Conference for Integrated Care in Dublin. This in-person event was a…

A busy year for IFIC supporting a range of EU-funded projects

PROCare4Life PROCare4Life over 2022 could analyse the results of pilot 2 and launch pilot 3, supported by a multilingual survey to expand the knowledge about its future users' preferences. After COVID19, we could finally meet in person in Madrid Consortium meeting. Specific multimedia training materials were created, to support the additional and refined functionalities that…

A rapid evaluation of a mental health 24/7 crisis response service

December 18, 2022

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) was asked to conduct an independent rapid retrospective evaluation of a Mental Health 24/7 Crisis Response Service (CRS) that had been operating in a health area of England since its launch in April 2020, hence at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Download the publication PDF Pillars: ,

IFIC Canada Webinar ‘The critical role of partnering with the volunteer sector to enable integration’

December 20, 2022

20/12/2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), IFIC Canada at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and its co-founders, Walter Wodchis and Jodeme Goldhar, invite you to join our next Virtual Community Session on December 20th, 2022 from 12:00-1:30 PM EST.
Integration is the lever to enable population health and wellbeing. A key component of integration is the role of partnering with the volunteer sector to improve outcomes for our patients, caregivers and our population.
In this session, we will take a deep dive to learn firsthand from about the role of engaging the volunteer sector from the perspectives of policy-makers, researchers and a person with lived experience. This session will discuss the available evidence, the volunteer sector’s role in policy, and share approaches and practical examples of local work that engages with the volunteer sector.


EHMA Webinar – Improving care delivery to patients with complex care needs

January 12, 2023

12/01/2023 @ 9:30 am – 10:45 am –

This webinar organised by EHMA tackles this issue from two perspectives: how to analyse and formulate integrated care policy at national and regional level to assist policy makers forge integrated care models for patient populations and how to design a practical technological solution which assists in coordinating multiple clinical pathways deploying the Virtual Care Operator as a solution.



Merative launches their new white paper ‘Shifting to people-centred care with co-ordinated health and social outcomes’

November 21, 2022

Merative launches their new white paper 'Shifting to people-centred care with co-ordinated health and social outcomes' What is the best way to achieve outcomes for people with complex health and social needs? Merative think it’s a shift to people-centred care with co-ordinated health and social outcomes (CHSO). Read the new white paper outlining 6 key…

UNICA4EU Press Release launched!

November 18, 2022

UNICA4EU Press Release launched! The consortium of UNICA4EU: Towards a UNIque approach for artificial intelligence data-driven solutions to fight Childhood cAncer FOR Europe is delighted to announce the start of this joint initiative, selected and granted by the European Commission. Childhood Cancer represents the leading cause of death from disease for children and teenagers in…

Effectively Addressing Diabetes

November 14, 2022

Effectively Addressing Diabetes Douglas Tynan PhD., Sidney Kimmel Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood glucose. Hyperglycemia, also called raised blood…

CAREMATRIX Webinar Open Call for Tender

November 24, 2022

24/11/2022 @ 2:00 pm –

On November 24th at 2pm, CAREMATRIX will hold an interactive webinar to discuss the details of the tender, the application process, and answer questions.


CANCERLESS Webinar hosted by the International Foundation for Integrated Care

December 2, 2022

02/12/2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

We are holding a Webinar to spread awareness on the CANCERLESS project. CANCERLESS’ vision is to prevent cancer and allow for early diagnoses in the homeless population by delivering person-centred interventions to overcome health inequalities and facilitating timely access to quality cancer prevention and screening services for homeless people and leaving no one behind in Europe. If you are interested in learning more about the project and initiatives involved, then join us on 2nd December!


Innovation Intensive Learning Week: 5-9 December 2022

December 5, 2022

05/12/2022 – 09/12/2022 @ 12:00 am –

The Bevan Commission in partnership with the All-Wales Intensive Learning Academy for Innovation in Health and Social Care at Swansea University, is hosting an Intensive Learning Week (5-9 December 2022) designed to enable you to become a transformational change leader to drive innovation within your health and care system, processes and digital solutions.


Educational Determinants of Health

October 26, 2022

Educational Determinants of Health If you work in healthcare anywhere in the world, and I ask you about how your organization is retaining its clinical workforce, I’ll bet you’d respond with one of the following: an enormous sigh, a hearty laugh, or (god forbid) a quip about how “no one wants to work anymore.”  …

IFIC Annual Survey 2022: Integrated Care Across the World

November 1, 2022

01/11/2022 @ 9:00 am –

In March 2022, the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) launched its first survey across its network asking people to share their views on what integrated care means to them and the features of integrated care that they thought were most important in their experience and context.


A look back on Self Management Month 2022: Celebrating Change

         A look back on Self Management Month 2022: Celebrating Change The ALLIANCE hosts a national self management awareness raising campaign each year. This year, it took the form of Self Management Month , running throughout September and focusing on Celebrating Change as its central theme. Throughout the month, we hosted a…

World Mental Health Day 2022 – Please, No More Mental Health Service Silos!

October 10, 2022

World Mental Health Day 2022 – Please, No More Mental Health Service Silos! David Burke, Senior Staff Specialist and Clinical Lead in Older People’s Mental Health at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and Associate Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, the University of Notre Dame There is no health without mental health (WHO, 2005); so, mental health for…

Healing Hearts and Communities: the power of compassion

October 7, 2022

Healing Hearts and Communities: the power of compassion Silvia Librada Flores, New Health Foundation This Sunday, 9th October is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day with the theme ‘Healing Hearts and Communities’[1]. It is a beautiful theme that refers to the concepts of compassion and Compassionate communities, which are now core pillars of palliative care…

Save the date for the upcoming EHMA webinars on ‘Health Management in action: Fostering health systems’ resilience’

October 5, 2022

05/10/2022 – 11/10/2022 @ 12:00 am –

The European Health Management Association (EHMA) launched its new webinar series ‘Health Management in action: Fostering health systems’ resilience’, aiming to discuss health management topics considered crucial to improve health systems preparedness and response.


The Virtual Leadership with Symposium by International Hospital Federation and American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

10/10/2022 – 11/10/2022 @ 12:00 am –

The International Hospital Federation are organizing a two-day virtual event in collaboration with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) featuring cutting-edge content and integrated networking opportunities for healthcare leaders.


Integrated Health and Social Care Partnerships during COVID-19: our local experiences

October 18, 2022

18/10/2022 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm –

In this webinar, panellists will discuss the health and social care partnerships they established in response to COVID-19. They will present their local experiences and how they supported priority communities in a dynamic and challenging environment.


Building health and care system resilience and recovery

September 22, 2022

Building health and care system resilience and recovery Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, Edelweiss Aldasoro and Alejandro Gil Salmeron In April 2020, one month after many countries across the world went into lockdown and health and care systems in many countries were dealing with the consequences of the pandemic, the International Foundation for Integrated Care launched a webinar…

Building health and care system resilience and recovery

August 31, 2022

31/08/2022 – 12/12/2022 @ 12:00 am –

In April 2020, one month after many countries across the world went into lockdown and health and care systems in many countries were dealing with the consequences of the pandemic, the International Foundation for Integrated Care launched a webinar series over five months. We convened integrated care practitioners from across the world to share their immediate experience of coping with this challenge and the effect it was having on care and outcomes. The International Foundation for Integrated Care are revisiting some of the webinars from the original series in the Autumn 2022. We will be bringing together international panels to explore the experience of integrated care in the context of the pandemic response, what we learnt and are taking forward to build health and care system resilience and recovery in different countries and what still needs to be learnt. We will link this to the Foundation’s 9 pillars of integrated care with a particular focus on workforce, communities and digitalisation.


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