The deadline for receiving abstracts for the 21st International Conference on Integrated Care “Realising the true value of Integrated Care” is today, Friday, 26 February. We have received a huge volume of feedback from our ICIC20 conference which took place in September and based on those suggestions we will be amending how the programme is designed and accessed to best suit a virtual format.
We are impressed with the high standard of papers received to date but we are keen to ensure we have an equal spread of papers across all themes and regions and are particularly keen to receive more papers from the Asia Pacific region and around the themes of Workforce Capacity and Capabilities, and Resilient Communities and New Alliances. Find out more about these and other themes.
The conference will run across the month of May and is hosted by IFIC Hubs in Latin America, Scotland, Australia, Ireland and Canada and each hub will lead a plenary session and the IFIC Australia plenary focusing on “System wide Governance, Leadership and Aligned Payments” takes place on Wednesday, 12 May from 8am -11am Sydney and features, amongst others, Professor Nicholas Goodwin, Director, Central Coast Research Institute, Alison Verhoeven, Chief Executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association and Helen Parker, CEO, Pinnacle Midlands Health Network (MHN), New Zealand.
The next webinar in the IFIC Australia series will consider “Disrupting health inequity and injustice through partnership” with contributions from Lottie Turner, Partnerships Director and Suzie Forell, Research Director, Health Justice Australia. The webinar takes place on Wednesday, 17 March at 8.30am Sydney.
There’s no doubt about it: globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare stark inequalities in the attainment and experience of good health and wellbeing, in the acute phase of the crisis and as we move into recovery. But the pandemic wasn’t the first crisis to render inequality and injustice visible, and it won’t be the last. This is inequality and injustice that people working across the Australian health, legal, social and community services landscape know all too well. This webinar will draw on Health Justice Australia’s experience as the national centre of excellence in health justice partnership to share:
What health justice partnerships are working to achieve across Australia, for whom
What opportunities health justice partnership provides existing integrated care infrastructure, to align health and legal service approaches around shared interests (despite the different lenses through which those interests are seen and understood)
How health justice partnership can be used as a tool to transform the levers of injustice and inequity, enabling the health social and community services landscape in Australia to build a COVID-normal service system that is cohesive, person-centred and responsive to the social determinants of health.
This IFIC Australia Autumn School – Designing and Implementing Integrated Care for Metropolitan Communities in Australia – has been commissioned by Sydney LHD, South East Sydney LHD and Central and Eastern Sydney PHN as part of their Partners agreement with IFIC Australia. The course is sponsored by the BUPA Health Foundation. The course is a virtual edition and will take place entirely online from 22 – 25 March 2021 with teams from the Sydney partners.
The Autumn School seeks to respond to demand from the health and care sector to help build capacity and skills in the effective adoption of integrated care programs in metropolitan communities. It is designed as an intensive on-line training course for those who are tasked with designing, implementing, managing and/or evaluating integrated care and who want to understand the core components to successful implementation.
