IFIC Scotland Webinar: Digitally enabled Community Pathways

Integrated Care Matters: Build Back Better

IFIC’s new report, Realising the true value of integrated care is a powerful call to reset our compass to a new reality based on solidarity and collaboration for population health.

IFIC Scotland and partners from the International Centre for Integrated Care are delighted to announce our fifth series of Integrated Care Matters webinars. Guest panelists members of IFICs international Special Interest Groups, will share their experiences and insights and challenge us to design a better future that improves lives and opportunities for all. Each webinar will be accompanied by a topic resource with links to further information and content available from our Special Interest groups. Our final webinar of the year takes place on Wednesday, December 9th, and will focus on "Digitally Enabled Community Pathways."

Miss Kathleen McGuire

Clinical Lead Health & Transformation (Scotland, Ireland & Wales) Strata Health UK, Lead Nurse, Scottish Borders Health & Social Care Partnership

Kathleen has an extensive 33 years background in the NHS, specialising in Digital Transformation of Health and the redesign and management of Older People Services. Working across all sectors of health and social care she played a lead national role in the strategic development and roll out of Technology Enabled Care, development of Community/Virtual Wards, Anticipatory Care Planning, Integrated Intermediate Care and Single Points of Access.

In 2020 she joined Strata Health UK as Clinical Director and Lead for Transformation providing leadership, direction and support to partners implementing digital pathways and clinical service redesign. She also has a lead nurse role in Scottish Borders, driving forward strategic relationship and engagement with care homes, bed based commissioning and more recently the commissioning and modelling of a new older people’s care village development.

Dr. William Lumb
Clinical Director Integrated Community Services and Clinical Lead East Integrated Care Community, Bay Health & Care Partners.
Joint Chief Clinical Information Officer (Integration) NHS Morecambe Bay CCG
Clinical Director Western Dales Primary Care Network
GP & Senior Partner Sedbergh Medical Practice

William for the past year has been Clinical Director of Integrated Community Services in Morecambe Bay with 900 staff (£30M budget) providing a broad range of clinical, nursing and therapy services over 1000 square miles to 350000 patients. He retains a CCIO role locally leading the patient flow (integration) agenda within the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), delivering one of the few NHS Digital Level 3 record sharing localities and has developed one of the more comprehensive health & care enterprise architectures in the UK. In recognition of his contribution to clinical informatics in the UK he was elected in 2018 as a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. Additionally William has led (for the past 3 years) a successful Integrated Care Community (and has been recently appointed as Clinical Director of the associated PCN), whilst remaining clinically active as a GP, senior partner and responsible officer at Sedbergh Medical Practice (CQC rated Good) in the Yorkshire Dales.

Professor Martin J Vernon
Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical Director Integration, Tameside Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Martin trained as a Geriatrician and General Internal Physician in the North West and London and is a Senior Clinical Advisor in both Greater Manchester and London. He has a MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College London teaches these subjects at Salford University and was appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Chester in 2016. Between 2016 and 2019 he was the National Clinical Director for Older People at NHS England and Improvement. He has led multiple national workstreams including development of the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan Ageing Well Programme.

Sonia Borthwick

Clinical Service Manager for Community Services.

Sonia joined NHS Borders 3 years ago after a successful career in Financial Services, managing Transformational Change. Delighted to have the responsibility for managing and enhancing the Intermediate Care Pathways.

Having successfully set up and expanded a Hospital to Home service, she is excited to continue developing this further, implementing a Discharge to Assess Model and Trusted Assessment Scheme.

Technical support

Instructions on how to access the webinar via Zoom will be sent in advance to all those who register. When you receive the instructions, please test your Zoom connection in advance of joining the webinar to ensure the software is compatible with your device. If you have any trouble, please contact your IT support who may need to overcome a firewall.

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Following each webinar, the resources and recording will be available to download from the IFIC Scotland Webpage