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All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care (AICIC26) – Conference Report

By David Linnane / July 6, 2026
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IFIC Ireland Conference Report From Goodwill to Good Systems Leadership and Governance for Integrated Care That Works 12 May 2026 – Dublin, Ireland Jump to a section AICIC26 at a glance AICIC26 brought together 300 delegates at University College Dublin to explore what it takes to move integrated care from commitment, professional goodwill and local…

AICIC26 Conference Report

By Admin / June 30, 2026
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IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Sarah Woods Slides

By Niamh Daly Day / May 27, 2026
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IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Sarah Woods Slides202 DownloadsDownload Now!

IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Clara Meehan and Cathal Kilcline Slides

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IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Clara Meehan and Cathal Kilcline Slides202 DownloadsDownload Now!

IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Catherine Darker Slides

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IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Michael John Norton Slides

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IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Michael John Norton Slides169 DownloadsDownload Now!

IFIC Ireland Webinar May 2026 Conor Gavin Slides

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AICIC26 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 12 May 2026 | Dublin UCD

By Admin / May 12, 2026
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12/05/2026 @ All Day –

AICIC26 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 12 May 2026 | Dublin UCD

AICIC26 Programme

By Niamh Daly Day / April 1, 2026
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IFIC Ireland Family Carers Ireland & Integrated Care Presentation Slides March 2026

By Niamh Daly Day / March 25, 2026
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IFIC Ireland Family Carers Ireland & Integrated Care Presentation Slides March 2026271 DownloadsDownload Now!

Family Carers Ireland & Integrated Care: Working Together for Better Support

By Niamh Daly Day / March 24, 2026
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24/03/2026 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm –

Catch up on this IFIC Ireland webinar with Family Carers Ireland to explore the role of family carers in integrated care.

Evaluating Integrated Care in Ireland: Challenges, Enablers and Lessons for Practice

By Niamh Daly Day / December 8, 2025
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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…

Can Ireland become the first Age Friendly Integrated Health System in the World?

By Niamh Daly Day / October 1, 2025
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01/10/2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm –

As populations age, health systems face new pressures. This IFIC Ireland webinar explored how Ireland is embedding Age-Friendly Health System principles into integrated care, offering practical insights to enhance patient experience, workforce effectiveness, and sustainable, person-centred services.

Living Well, Ageing Well: Ireland’s Ambition for an Age-Friendly Health System

By Niamh Daly Day / November 12, 2025
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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 Ireland Evaluation Webinar October 2025 – Niamh Lennox-Chhugani Slides

By Niamh Daly Day / October 23, 2025
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IFIC Ireland Evaluation Webinar October 2025 – Arturo Alvarez Slides

By Niamh Daly Day / October 23, 2025
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IFIC Ireland Evaluation Webinar October 2025 – Áine Carroll Slides

By Niamh Daly Day / October 23, 2025
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IFIC Ireland Evaluation Webinar October 2025 – Áine Carroll Slides470 DownloadsDownload Now!

IFIC Ireland Evaluation Webinar October 2025 – Introductory Slides

By Niamh Daly Day / October 23, 2025
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IFIC Ireland Evaluation Webinar October 2025 – Introductory Slides484 DownloadsDownload Now!

Evaluating Integrated Care in Ireland: Challenges, Enablers, and Lessons for Practice

By Niamh Daly Day / October 22, 2025
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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.

In Memory of Jacqui Browne

By David Linnane / July 2, 2025
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Jacqui Browne Board Member, IFIC Ireland and the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Disability Advocate • Patient Voice Champion • Mentor • Sister • Friend Jacqueline Anne Browne, known to all of us as Jacqui, died peacefully at home in Fenit, Co. Kerry, Ireland on 23 June 2025. She was surrounded by her loving…

Is There A Place For The Personal? – A Reflection from ICIC25

By Niamh Daly Day / June 5, 2025
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A few years ago, a peer told me lived experience research does not create change. At the time, I was working on my doctoral study, examining the psychological experiences of people living with cancer and their family carers using supportive symptom management technology. While it was not intended to diminish the work I was doing,…

“Integration is Not a Structure—It’s a Behaviour”: Reflections on Bernard Gloster’s AICIC25 Address

By Niamh Daly Day / June 3, 2025
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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…

State of Education Report 2025 Ireland Case Study

By Admin / May 8, 2025
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Embracing Hope and Integrated Care for a Stronger Workforce and Health System: AICIC25 Highlights

By Niamh Daly Day / April 25, 2025
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When I was asked to provide a keynote for the All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care 2025 that would be provocative but positive about the workforce and its readiness for integrated care, it caused me to pause for thought. The health and care workforce are under huge pressure. That is not just demand pressure, although that…

Building Bridges across professions: Highlights from AICIC25

By Niamh Daly Day / April 25, 2025
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Attending the plenary discussion on investing in people at this year’s All Ireland Conference on Integrated Care (AICIC25) reinforced the crucial role of family carers as a visible workforce in integrated care. Their inclusion is essential in building bridges across professions and developing effective care plans.   Bernard Gloster’s opening speech set the tone for…

Championing Integrated Care in the Face of Fragmentation

By David Linnane / March 27, 2025
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By Dr Sarah Barry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland   In a time when division and fragmentation are increasingly shaping our world, the call for integrated care is more critical than ever. In his latest book ‘Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service’, Michael Lewis endorses the value of mission-led civil servants…

AICIC25 Partnership Brochure

By Admin / December 9, 2024
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AICIC25 Partnership Brochure449 DownloadsIFIC Ireland in association with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), the Health Service Executive (HSE Ireland), Department of Health, Northern Ireland, Sláintecare, University College Dublin and Ulster University presents “Building a Better Future: Radical Workforce Innovations for Person-centred Integrated Care” on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at O’Reilly Hall, University College…

AICIC25 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 26 March 2025 | Dublin UCD

By Admin / March 26, 2025
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26/03/2025 @ All Day –

AICIC25 All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care | 26 March 2025 | Dublin UCD

Medium and Long-term impact of Covid-19 – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / December 2, 2020
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02/12/2020 @ All Day –

This webinar focuses on the medium and long term impacts of Covid-19 on the person and the implications for health and social care delivery.

Rehabilitation Care – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / October 25, 2020
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25/10/2020 @ All Day –

The webinar focuses on rehabilitation care and how various initiatives in Ireland are enhancing the experience of integrated care for patients, informal caregivers and health care professionals.

Michelle Nelson and Cormac Russell in Conversation: Community in Integrated Care – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / October 7, 2020
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07/10/2020 @ All Day –

As part of IFIC Ireland’s 2020 webinar series Making Integrated Care Happen, Cormac Russell and Michelle Nelson will discuss the opportunities and challenges now presented to realising Integrated Community Care based on community strength, co-production and intersectoral working throughout our communities, organisations, and systems.

Inclusion Health and understanding the Social Determinants of Health – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / August 11, 2020
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11/08/2020 @ All Day –

Inclusion health is a service, research, and policy agenda that aims to prevent and redress health and social inequities among the most vulnerable and excluded populations. Addressing social inequalities to ensure the best health outcomes for populations at risk at the earliest possible point of intervention can help to benefit lifelong health.

Palliative & End-of-Life Care in Ireland in partnership with the Irish Hospice Foundation – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / March 10, 2020
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10/03/2020 @ All Day –

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 speak about the importance of Advance Care Planning and the Think Ahead programme operated by the Irish Hospice Foundation which enables individuals to think and plan ahead for their end of life care.

Social Prescribing: Initiatives on the Island of Ireland – Making Integrated Care Happen

By Admin / February 18, 2020
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18/02/2020 @ All Day –

Social prescribing, sometimes referred to as community referral, is a means of enabling GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services.

Open health data and health literacy – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / October 13, 2021
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13/10/2021 @ All Day –

Daily Covid-19 case numbers, hospital occupancy, vaccines administered and the focus on data availability and modelling of the Covid-19 pandemic have occupied news headlines for more than 18 months.

Trust and transparency in predictive medicine and machine learning supports to the patient journey – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / September 29, 2021
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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.

Continuous Quality improvements: measuring success and sharing learning – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / September 15, 2021
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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.

Enabling Virtual Care – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / September 1, 2021
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01/09/2021 @ All Day –

Virtual care has experienced unpredictable rapid growth across the globe with the onset of Covid-19. The initial response to reduce clinical interventions across all levels of care so that priority for treatment could be afforded to those most impacted by the disease required health and social care systems to swiftly implement, scale and support virtual care options to provide appropriate interventions and continuity of care for all.

How can digital solutions support self-management – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / July 7, 2021
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07/07/2021 @ All Day –

The proliferation of remote health monitoring options, reduced cost and time to delivery for mobile apps combined with a pressing need to reduce physical and social contacts in the time of a pandemic, has lead to swift implementation of innovative solutions.

Virtual Visiting and Peer Supports: virtual supports in a time of reduced social contact – Realising Integrated Care Series 2021

By Admin / June 23, 2021
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23/06/2021 @ All Day –

While there has been an emphasis on maintaining medical interventions with telemedicine in the past 12 months, the importance of social contact to recovery during acute health episodes cannot be underestimated.