The VIGOUR Partners in The Autonomous Province of Trento have come together to create a Podcast in the Italian language where they discuss their Pilot site and the role in the VIGOUR project.

Vigour Trento Pilot Site

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, IFIC CEO speaks with Tara French from NHS Scotland and Chaloner Chute from Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, Scotland

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, IFIC CEO speaks with Tara French  and Chaloner Chute

Health and care workers are our greatest asset, working alongside family carers, community partners and local networks of support. However, without reforms, sustaining the workforce is also one of our greatest challenges.

Core competencies for integrated care are highly relational: patient advocacy, communication, interdisciplinary working, people-centred care, and continuous learning. Leading and managing transformational change is a collective responsibility and sustainable improvements will only take place if a flexible approach to driving the change is embedded. Enabling individuals and the system to be their own change agents will create an environment that can effectively respond to the continuous evolution of communities and populations alongside being able to harness the potential of innovations and new ways of working.

The current pandemic has stretched our workforce beyond what we could have imagined. They have stepped up by extending scope of practice, blurring roles to support each other, and rapidly acquiring new caring and remote consultation skills to offer the best possible care and support in extremely difficult circumstance.

We have a unique opportunity to test integrated workforce solutions that will strengthen our systems and lead to better health, better care and better value.

Care during and beyond the Covid-19 Crisis: Workforce Capacity and Capability

As part of the VIGOUR project we caught up with Sonja Lindner from the Medical University of Graz who along with VIGOUR project partners have published a paper titled Can Integrated Care Help in Meeting the Challenges Posed on Our Health Care Systems by COVID-19? Some Preliminary Lessons Learned from the European VIGOUR Project” which is published in the International Journal of Integrated Care https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.5596

Can Integrated Care Help in Meeting the Challenges Posed on Our Health Care Systems by COVID-19?

Host Orla Snook O' Carroll is joined by Rachael Dix of Las Naves in Valencia to discuss the work they are doing in Valencia for the ValueCare project and for older people with Frailty.

Rachael Dix discusses the implementation of the ValueCare project in Valencia

Today, our health and care systems are fragmented, disease-centred, difficult to navigate and do not consider the whole person. As a result, too many people experience poor quality care, often in the wrong settings with undesirable outcomes.

IFIC’s Vision is that people, families and communities benefit from person-centred integrated care and support to maximise their health, wellbeing and independence.

Our Mission, as the leading international voice in integrated care, is to inspire, influence and facilitate the adoption of integrated care in policy and practice around the world.

International Foundation for Integrated Care