Current Events

IFIC Scotland Webinar: Community Hospitals Across the Globe

“Save the Date” 8^th October 2025 3pm-4.30pm GMT

Speakers will include Dr Tan Boon Yeow, the CEO of St Luke’s Hospital, Singapore, and Dr David Seamark & Sue Greenwood, Modern Matron Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust UK. The event will be chaired by Dr Anne Hendry, Senior Associate, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) & Director, IFIC Scotland, and is being jointly hosted by IFIC Scotland and the CHA.

Our most recent webinar featured Italy, Japan and Sweden and can be viewed here.

CHA Networking and Leadership Webinar

Point-of-care testing in community settings

Wednesday 1st October at 12 noon

In partnership with Abbott

Join us on Wednesday 1st October at 12 noon for the second of our Networking and Leadership Webinars. The release of the long term plan is an enabler for care closer to home, supporting the shift into community settings. This session which aims to discuss how we could achieve this, incorporating appropriate POCT alongside clinical decision making.

We’ll have NHS peers presenting who will share their experience around how they’ve achieved this and aims for best practice.

This event will be of interest to Clinicians, nurses, HCAS, Commissioners, PCN leads, UTC leads, Community Hospital workforce and SDECs.

Do join us for this free session - register now!

ICIC25 International Integrated Care Conference 14th -16th May, Lisbon

Synergising Health and Care: Leveraging Integrated Care for a Sustainable Future

Details and Registration here Note: 10% Discount for CHA Members

The ICIC25 conference is particularly organised around the following themes:

Healthy All Around: Integrated Care Strategies for Universal Health Coverage
Collaborative Approaches in Integrated Care: Leveraging Partnerships for Health and Development
Inclusive Health: Integrated Care to Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries
Healthy and sustainable habitats: integrated care against climate change

Call for Papers Open Until Friday 15th November

The scientific committee for this conference has been established from a broad range of international experts who are leading in the field of Integrated Care. They are accepting paper submissions on research, policy, practice or education and specifically related to the Conference Themes and the 9 Pillars of Integrated Care until 15th November 2024. The full abstract should be limited to 500 words. All accepted abstracts will be published in the International Journal for Integrated Care (Impact factor 2.913) and recordings of presentations, workshops and all digital posters will be connected to the Knowledge Tree Abstract Guidelines available here Submit an abstract

This 25th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC25) in partnership with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC), Portuguese Healthcare Service, NOVA National School of Public Health, Portuguese Association for Integrated Care and the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic will take place in the CCB Lisbon The conference will bring together leaders, researchers, clinicians, managers, community representatives, patients and caregivers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and care.

CHA National Conference 2024

"Community Hospitals: leading best practices today, shaping the healthcare of tomorrow”

Our CHA National Conference was a great success. We had a fascinating programme - download our brochure here Workshops covered topics in community hospitals, including Frailty, Urgent Care, Palliative and End of Life Care, Sustainability, Staffing and Art in community hospitals. More details of our conference here We are busy planning for 2025 - do contact us with ideas and suggestions.