International Foundation for Integrated Care

25/07/2025

🧩 Why is social care still struggling to find its place?

In this blog, Alfonso Lara Montero, Chief Executive of European Social Network, reflects on his keynote at and explores the structural, cultural, and funding barriers that prevent social services from supporting integrated care to happen.

He calls for shared governance, joint funding, interoperable systems, and workforce investment—so that social care can stand on equal footing with health care.

📖 Read the full post:
👉 https://ow.ly/gahi50Wr8lK

24/07/2025

🕊️ Remembering Jacqui Browne
Board Member, IFIC Ireland and the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
Disability Advocate • Patient Voice Champion • Mentor • Sister • Friend

We invite you to tune in to BBC Radio 4 this Friday at 16:02 for a special obituary on Last Word, honouring the life and legacy of Jacqui Browne.

Jacqui served on the Boards of both IFIC and IFIC Ireland, where her insight helped shape how lived experience and disability rights inform integrated care. A policy influencer, advocate, and mentor, she consistently reminded us to ask who wasn’t yet in the room — and why that mattered.

Her work across a 35-year career as a disability equality consultant, patient advocate, and national leader was anchored in an unshakable belief: that disabled people should be fully resourced and fully recognised in decisions that shape their lives.

The programme will be available after broadcast on:
🔗 BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g536
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uFsQAq1pf7f0tCPjdvKUu
🍏 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/last-word/id405514067

To those of us who worked alongside her in the world of integrated care, Jacqui offered clarity, warmth, rigour, and resolve. She reminded us, again and again, that inclusion is not a gesture. It is the work.

We extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends, colleagues, and to all who loved her.

🤍 Rest in peace, Jacqui. We will carry what you built forward.

24/07/2025

⚠️Are you interested in learning about the Pillars of Integrated Care?⚠️

We are now enrolling for the Online Certificate in Integrated Care - Autumn 2025.

Join us 13 October - 12 December to gain an introduction to !

Register now https://ow.ly/c1rv50SrRuA

22/07/2025

🧠💬 Can lived experience research drive real change in health and care?

In this reflective blog, Andrew Darley shares his journey—from qualitative research in cancer care to co-designing technology with older people, to exploring complexity science at .

📖 Read more:
👉 https://ow.ly/KlLj50Wr611

17/07/2025

🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of the International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) at !

This blog reflects on IJIC’s journey from bold beginnings to becoming a global platform for advancing the science and practice of integrated care.

It explores the journal’s history, its role in shaping the integrated care movement, and future priorities—including equity, lived experience, and measuring real-world impact.

📖 Read the full story and what’s next for IJIC:
👉 https://ow.ly/xXIu50Wr542

16/07/2025

🌍 New Editorial Board Members with Lived Experience at IJIC

We’re proud to welcome five new Editorial Board Members who bring lived experience of health and care to the International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC).

Their insights, leadership, and personal journeys will help shape a more inclusive and rigorous journal—amplifying the voices of those directly impacted by health and care systems.

Meet our new editors:
🇦🇺 Deb Letica – Citizen leader advancing health equity & literacy
🇮🇪 Stacey Grealis – Health consumer & citizen science advocate
🇨🇦 Mick Kunze – Champion of lived-experience-led, arts-based research
🇸🇪 Eskil Degsell – Patient advocate & researcher
🇦🇺 Suzie Edward May – Expert in public health, law & mental health reform

Read more 👉 https://ow.ly/5CAq50Wqrp7

15/07/2025

The Conference at the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon brought together over 1,000 participants from around the world committed to improving health systems through integrated care.

In this blog, Shane Fitch (Lovexair) reflects on the global integrated care movement, ongoing challenges, and their collaborative work on Bronc@ir—a virtual self-care model for bronchiectasis developed with Hospital del Mar.

📖 Read the blog:
👉 https://ow.ly/ONw650WpM2b

10/07/2025

🌍 Celebrating Global Excellence in Integrated Care! 🌟

At the Awards, inspiring projects from around the world were honoured for advancing integrated care through innovation, compassion, and collaboration.

From community-led initiatives to digital solutions and groundbreaking research, this year’s winners show the power of partnerships in transforming care.

👏 Congratulations to all winners and honourees — your work reminds us that integrated care is a shared journey!

🔗 Read the full blog post here:
https://ow.ly/Klwf50WnxXt

04/07/2025

🚨 Call for Papers: IJIC Special Collection 🚨
"Understanding the Impact of Integrated Care"

We’re seeking original research, policy papers, case studies & perspectives exploring how and what to measure when evaluating integrated care—across people, communities, systems & sustainability.

📅 Key Dates:
🔹 Special Collection Launch: 14 July 2025
🔹 Submission Deadline: 7 November 2025

Accepted papers will be featured in our April 2026 launch at .

🌐 Submission Details:

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue...

03/07/2025

🎉At in Lisbon, we celebrated 25 years of the International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC)!

In this blog, Prof Nick Goodwin reflects on IJIC’s journey — from its digital beginnings to becoming a leading voice in integrated care worldwide.

Check it out here 👉https://ow.ly/w0Uo50Wki5O

01/07/2025

Advancing Integrated Pain Care: The Legacy of Kathy J. Davis

🌿 Kathy J. Davis, was a pioneer in integrated, trauma-informed pain care and a beloved leader in the Tucson health community. Her work changed lives—and continues to inspire a more compassionate model of care.

Read her powerful story and lasting legacy:
👉 https://ow.ly/plXL50WjbQv

25/06/2025

📢 Last chance to register – the webinar starts today!

Join us this afternoon, 25 June, for the webinar:

“Towards Equitable Cancer Journeys: Principles of Navigation”, hosted as part of the CO-CAPTAIN project.

This session will explore how patient navigation models can break down barriers and improve access to cancer prevention, especially for people living with mental health challenges.

🎙️ Speakers:
🔹 Igor Grabovac (Medical University of Vienna) – presenting a framework on health inequalities and access to prevention
🔹 Liuska Sanna (Mental Health Europe) – sharing insights from a navigation model co-created and implemented in Austria, Greece, Poland, and Spain
🔹 Rose Miranda (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) – Senior Researcher and Scientific Manager of the EU NAVIGATE Project
🔹 Alejandro Gil-Salmerón (IFIC) – moderating the discussion on European strategies for equitable access

🕒 Time:
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm LONDON
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm BRUSSELS

🔗 Register now:
https://ow.ly/oXI950WfVHx