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APIC2 the 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Care confirmed for 11-13 November in Melbourne!
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IFIC Australia has made solid progress since our last newsletter with work done by partners on developing case studies based on work in their services, responses to the Productivity Commission report on Integrated Care and planning for the 2nd Asia-Pacific (APIC) conference to take place 11-3 November in Melbourne.
A group of case studies has been selected for dissemination from the original batch prepared by our partner, Children’s Health Queensland. Opportunities will be then be sought to make them publicly and internationally available.
We welcome our new partner, the Australian Hospital and Healthcare Association. We are honoured to have you aboard and look forward to working with you to develop integrated care in Australia.
It has been decided that rather than respond directly to the Productivity Commission’s December 2017 report, we write a series of advocacy commentaries on Integrated Care that have come out of the work that has been done to date.
The Commission’s Report would be used as a key report to be cited with a focus on “collective impact”. Any ideas relating to services for Older People and Mental Health Services in particular would be welcome but again anything that would focus attention on practical steps towards implementing Federal and State policy initiatives around Integrated Health and Social Services care would be gratefully received.
There are now several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in operation, covering speciality areas such as Children’s Health, Older People’s Health and others. If you would like to suggest another group, please let us know.
We have revised the documents that profile and give information relating to IFICA activities and aspirations and how to become partners of IFICA. These include the new fee structure which takes into account the different sizes of organisations. If your organisation is interested in receiving these please write to Lucy McEvoy at lucy.mcevoy@newcastle.edu.au.
Planning is proceeding apace with the 2nd Asia Pacific Integrated Care Conference. It is now set for 11-13 November in Melbourne. There will also be another Accelerated Learning Programme offered by IFICA in Orange during the week of 4 November at the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health.
April is going to be a busy month. On 17 April an afternoon of events will be held at the University of Newcastle’s Sydney Campus based around the IFIC CEO Nick Goodwin’s visit. Please come along and also advise your colleagues of the programme which includes a free access seminar, launch of the APIC2 conference and IFICA Work Plan discussion and a partner’s meeting.
And finally, for those who like to stay up late, you can watch the live stream of the ICIC19 19th International Conference on Integrated Care taking place in San Sebastian from 1 - 3 April. And for those who are attending we wish you the very best of learning!
Peter McGeorge
Chairperson
IFIC Australia
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Watch LIVE Online - 19th International Conference on Integrated Care
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If you aren't lucky enough to be travelling to San Sebastian, the conference is being Live Streamed to IFIC's global network, including IFIC Australia from 6PM AEST on Monday, 1st April. Please take the opportunity to watch some of the sessions and make your colleagues aware of the opportunity.
To register, simply become a Community Member of the International Foundation for Integrated Care Global Network, before Monday 1st April and receive a unique username and password to access the #ICIC19 live stream and video archive.
Online delegates will be able to:
- Watch the conference LIVE online from their desk, tablet or phone.
- Watch videos of the keynote speakers, most popular breakout sessions and interviews on all three days of conference
Online delegates can choose to watch the whole event or just pop in and out when they can from the 1-3 April, and can participate in an exciting range of plenary and conference sessions covering key issues in integrated care. They can:
- Hear live interviews from our expert panel of speakers and delegates.
- Take part in the discussions and ask questions to the speakers
- Watch from home or work as an individual or with a group of colleagues. All that is required is a broadband connection.
- Watch the sessions later or at a time that is more convenient via our video on demand archive - Watch anytime, anywhere.
If you can’t travel to San Sebastian, live streaming ICIC19 is the next best thing to being there!
Here is some text that you can share with your colleagues:
"Over 1,300 delegates will be attending #ICIC19 in person. If you can't be there, then join us 'virtually'. Over the three days we will be streaming 13 sessions live and on-demand. That's 60+ of the world's best integrated care experts delivering over 20 hours of video content. Visit https://live.integratedcarefoundation.org for more information."
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IFIC Australia Roundtable at ICIC19
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Join a Meeting of IFIC Australia at ICIC19, San Sebastian, 3rd April 2019
Led by IFIC Australia’s co-directors – Prof. David Perkins and Prof. Nick Goodwin – this round-table session is designed to bring together delegates from Australia and the Asia-Pacific to learn more about IFIC’s approach to developing collaborative centres and networking activities across the Region. The session is designed to tease out the key challenges and opportunities facing countries in taking integrated care forward in policy and practice, and to share experience and seek advice and guidance from delegates on how best IFIC’s activities may be taken forward in the Region.
The round-table event will be held on Wednesday 3rd April from 15:15 to 16:30 in the main auditorium of the conference venue.
If you are not in San Sebastian you can watch the live stream at 1.15AM AEST on Thursday, 4th April.
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APIC2 is Coming to Melbourne
11 -13 November
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We are very pleased that the 2nd Pacific Conference on Integrated Care take place in Melbourne, Australia, from 11-13 November 2019 . With the overarching theme ‘Achieving better value for people and populations’ the conference is a partnership of The University of Newcastle, Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health, Children’s Health Queensland, Health Central Coast Local Health District, The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association and Health Justice Australia. The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care. The call for papers will be announced shortly. Stay up to date by visiting the conference website.
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Coordinating care to older people with complex needs in the home environment Seminar
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Older people with complex health and care needs are often beset by challenges in accessing appropriate care and encounter problems of poor care co-ordination on a daily basis. Using international case examples, this seminar will examine a continuum of approaches that have been used to help improve quality of care and quality of life to older people living at home, including to their carers and family members.
These approaches include ways that enable older people to live well and independently in the home environment; promote access to primary and community-based resources in the community; enable effective and seamless care transitions; and support dignity in care for people with dementia and nearing the end of life.
The seminar concludes with a review of the newly-published roadmap from the EU project SUSTAIN that was first presented at their final conference in Brussels on the 13th March 2019. The roadmap sets out guidance on how to design, implement and improve integrated care to older people including hints and tips on creating an enabling environment for change.
This seminar will take place in University of Newcastle, Sydney Campus on Wednesday, 17 April from 14:30 – 15:45. Seminar to be followed by the launch of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Integrated Care Conference to be held in Melbourne in November and a short discussion around IFIC Australia activities.
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Designing and Implementing Integrated Care – An Accelerated Learning Course for Leaders in Integrated Care Programs in Australia
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This accelerated learning course builds on the success of last year’s course, a collaboration between IFIC Australia and CRRMH. It responds to demand from the health and care sector to help build capacity and skills in the effective adoption of integrated care programs in practice.
This course is designed as a residential program to support PHNs/LHDs, and their local partners, to build their knowledge about the design and implementation of integrated care programs to support specific project developments in their own context.
The program will take place at the Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, Orange, New South Wales from 4-8 November 2019
Places on the course are available by direct application. To make a booking, or to find out more about the program, please contact Lucy McEvoy at Lucy.McEvoy@newcastle.edu.au
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Taking Integrated Care Forward in Australia: Commentaries
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A core objective of IFIC Australia is to help support the effective implementation of integrated care in policy and practice. The IFIC Australia initiative reflects the growing focus at State and Federal level on person-centred integrated care as a means to promote better value in the way health and care services are delivered. In August 2017, for example, the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission produced a report advocating for such an approach. In so doing, it raised a number of critical implementation challenges including: the lack of a truly person-centred model of care; the ability to stimulate innovation and change; the need for new incentives to support whole-system thinking; the reform to existing financial flows; and focusing in on integrated care as a means to promote quality, including investment in prevention and digital health.
Over the next year, IFIC is inviting commentaries on How to Take Integrated Care Forward in Australia from a range of different perspectives.
To start this series, we hear the thoughts of Professor David Perkins from the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health at the University of Newcastle who reflects on the Australian Productivity Commission Report: “Shifting The Dial”. The report addresses the complacency in the Australian health care system with a fairly blunt assessment of the current state of affairs.
The second in our series also looks at the Australian Productivity Commission Report where Professor Peter McGeorge, Chair, IFIC Australia looks at the extinct to which the report provides a useful information for advancing integrated mental health care in Australia.
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Significant Growth in Australian Academic Output in 2018
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When IFIC Australia was founded in November 2015, one of its core objectives was to provide a platform through which to develop and exchange ideas to advance science and knowledge in Australia and on an international stage. Since that time there has been a significant growth and interest in the work of IFIC Australia, and a related increase in the dissemination of research and innovation through IFIC’s range of activities.
Nowhere has this growth been more evidence than in the number of submissions and subsequent publications to IFIC’s on-line periodical, the International Journal of Integrated Care (www.ijic.org). Of the 162,108 unique users of IJIC, some 13,286 (8.3%) come from Australia – a significant growth from recent years and now third only to the UK and USA. Perhaps most impressively, Australia ranked first in number of submissions by country with 174/688 submissions of all types of paper in 2018, compared to the Netherlands (in second place) from where 115/688 submissions were received. [Read more ...]
Dr Nick Goodwin is the CEO and Co-founder of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
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IFIC Australia announces knowledge partnership with AHHA
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IFIC Australia are delighted to announce a partnership with the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, here Alison Verhoeven their Chief Executive talks about what that means.
"Coordinated and integrated care is a critical part of a fit for purpose 21st century healthcare system that meets the 21st century needs and expectations of Australians. The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) has worked extensively with members and the broader health sector to articulate a vision for value-based, outcomes-focused and patient centred care, and we have outlined a series of short, medium and longer-term reforms needed to realise this vision in AHHA’s blueprint for health system reform. Better governance arrangements between the Commonwealth and states would result in better coordination of, and better value for, Australia’s $180 billion healthcare bill. Consumers must be also be genuinely engaged in co-designing services and how the entire health system functions across hospitals, primary healthcare and prevention activities. We also know we need intelligent data and a modern health workforce with changes in scopes of practice and models of care to meet public need. We know what we need to do to achieve this vision, and AHHA will continue to challenge the sector to step out of our comfort zones and transform fragmented healthcare in Australia."
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) is Australia’s national peak body for public and not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare providers. Our vision is for a healthy Australia supported by the best possible healthcare system. Our membership includes state health departments, Local Hospital Networks and public hospitals, community health services, Primary Health Networks and primary healthcare providers, aged care providers, universities, individual health professionals and academics. As such, we are uniquely placed to be an independent, national voice for universal high-quality healthcare to benefit the whole community.
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Nick Goodwin to be appointed as Professor and Director of the Central Coast Research Institute
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Prof. Nick Goodwin, co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the International Foundation for Integrated Care, has accepted the appointment as Director of the Central Coast Research Institute (CCRI) that will be based within the Health and Wellbeing Precinct on the Gosford Hospital campus. Developed in partnership between the University of Newcastle and Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD), Nick’s position as Director of the CCRI will include a seconded role to CCLHD as the inaugural Director of Research.
Dr Goodwin’s appointment will commence in the second-half of 2019 pending a successful visa application process. Until such point, Nick will fully continue in his role as IFIC’s CEO. [Read more ...]
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Join a Special Interest Group
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IFIC supports a host of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which have been set up by IFIC members to allow the collaboration and development of specific topics within the Integrated Care field. These groups are led by experts in their respective specialist areas and give like-minded individuals the opportunity to make valuable contacts and gain insight and additional knowledge.
The overall aim for SIGs is to promote the development, adaptation or translation of scientific approaches for the specific purposes of integrated care, and/or promote a specific topic within the integrated care field. Topics may focus on research methodologies and certain target groups or similar.
SIGs run independently but receive support from IFIC via its website, which facilitates a blog and discussion forum. IFIC also helps SIGs promote their work via its communication channels including conferences, newsletters, social media platforms, marketing partners and our website.
Join IFIC’s growing SIGs movement, you just need join IFIC's Global Network - joining is free!
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