IFIC Forum Discussion on Integrated Teamwork

This interactive webinar is presented by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) as part of their "Nine Pillars of Integrated Care" 2026 Forum Series

Join this online forum to discuss how integrated teamwork is the engine of integrated care.

Following on from our successful Forum Discussions on two of the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care, Governance  and Information and Technology, which explored international experiences of integrated care, we are delighted to host the third in our series of nine Forums to launch the revised Pillars.

Integrated teamwork is the engine of integrated care. The delivery of high-quality integrated care is fundamentally dependent on effective teamwork among health and social care professionals. The evidence base supporting this assertion is substantial, consistent, and growing. To make integrated care a reality, diverse professionals need to work collaboratively, sharing responsibility for care planning and delivery. Without functional teamwork as its operational foundation, integrated care remains a policy aspiration rather than a lived reality for those who use services.

Join IFIC for an interactive Forum Discussion focused on the Integrated Teamwork Pillar of the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care. This session brings together international expertise to explore what progress has been made, what tensions remain, and what practical shifts are needed to enable integrated, people centred care in different contexts.

# What we will explore

  • How integrated teamwork can enable coordination, continuity and shared decision making
  • What has to change in the way that health and care professionals are trained and practice
  • How people and the centre of care and family carers are part of the integrated team

# How the Forum will run

This is a discussion led session, designed for learning across policy, research and practice. Expect short framing inputs from contributors, followed by a moderated conversation and active engagement from the audience. The emphasis is on generative dialogue rather than presentations.

# Who this Forum is for

This Forum Discussion is relevant for policymakers and system leaders, practitioners, researchers, education and training specialists, and anyone interested in how integrated teamwork can support integrated care.

# About the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care

The Nine Pillars of Integrated Care describe the core conditions that enable integrated care to be implemented, sustained and scaled. Each Forum in the 2026 series focuses on one Pillar, while recognising the interconnections between all nine. The series supports shared learning across IFIC’s global community and strengthens the translation of evidence into practical action.

Détails
le Mardi 24 Mars 2026 - 12:00
12:00-1:30pm
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Free
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Quality Improvement Open House

This Lunch & Learn Webinar is presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities

The Alliance’s Learning Health System team is here to support all Alliance members on their quality improvement (QI) journeys, regardless of their pace and starting point. We know that a QI-informed approach can make their work more joyful, rewarding, and impactful. Our team of QI coaches can help you:

  • Get started with a brainstorming session or guided data exploration to identify a meaningful goal and choose a project. 
  • Overcome the “no time for QI” barrier by integrating it into huddles and workflows.
  • Break your QI project into small, manageable steps, so you’re not overwhelmed by complexity.
  • Identify a change idea to try, then test it on a small scale to see how it works.

Tailored coaching is just one of the free QI supports available to Alliance members. We also offer peer-supported and self-paced learning activities, learning events, and help with data collection and retrieval. On Wednesday May 6, the EPIC Learning Health System team is hosting a Quality Improvement Open House for members who want to learn about these supports and how to access them.

This open house is for anyone working at an Alliance-member organization who wants to implement change or make improvements, whether you’re an experienced QI lead, a member of your organization’s QI team, or new to this journey. Administrators, program managers, interprofessional providers, data managers, health promoters, and directors can all participate in QI activities and can all benefit from learning about our QI supports. 

By participating in this webinar, you’ll gain: 

  • Awareness of how the EPIC Learning Health System and our QI Supports can help your team meet strategic goals,
  • Information you can use for year-round planning of QI activities,
  • Heightened curiosity about your practice-based data and how it can guide improvement work,
  • Deeper understanding that QI isn't “one more thing” for your busy team to do, but something that can be woven throughout your work, and
  • Insight into available supports for implementing or improving a social prescribing referral pathway.

Register here and join us from 12-1 pm on Wednesday, May 6. Get an orientation to all our QI supports, hear success stories from your peers who have benefited from them, and have time for interactive deeper dives into the QI supports that spark your curiosity. 

Détails
le Mercredi 6 Mai 2026 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online event

Tools for Better Management of ME, FM, and POTs in Primary Health Care

This webinar is presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities in Partnership with CareNow Ontario.

Are you seeing clients with persistent but hard-to-explain symptoms — debilitating fatigue, dizziness, unrefreshing sleep, pain, or brain fog — and wondering how best to help when tests don’t provide clear answers? 

Symptoms of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), and Fibromyalgia (FM), often emerge after an acute viral-like illness, such as the Epstein–Barr virus, influenza, COVID-19, or other viral or bacterial infections, and they persist long after the initial illness resolves. These infections can trigger long-lasting conditions characterized by debilitating fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, autonomic nervous system instability, sleep disruption, and pain. Daily functioning is often significantly limited, affecting both basic and instrumental activities of daily living. Because they are so often debilitating and have whole-person impacts, these conditions are often best managed in a comprehensive, team-based primary health care setting, with coordinated support that includes physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and social work. However, this post-infectious pattern is not always recognized in clinical practice, contributing to delays in diagnosis and care. 

New, evidence-informed tools are now available to support better Management of ME, FM, and POTs in primary health care settings. Created by the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) in partnership with clinicians and people with lived experience, these  practical resources help clinicians identify core symptom patterns, conduct focused assessments, and build individualized management plans that include both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies. They also promote person-centred care, recognizing the wide variation in symptom severity and presentation. 

Join this free Lunch & Learn webinar from CareNow Ontario and the Alliance for Healthier Communities to get an overview of the CEP tools, hear from providers and clients who have benefitted from them, and come away better equipped to identify and care for people living with POTS, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia.

Détails
le Mercredi 20 Mai 2026 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Planetary Health & Sustainable Care ECHO: Climate Impacts on Health & Health Equity

This peer-supported learning series is presented by the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health, and Sustainable Care and CASCADES.

Join the Collaborative Centre and CASCADES for our next cycle of the Planetary Health & Sustainable Care ECHO: Climate Impacts on Health & Health Equity starting April 7.

In this cycle, we will explore how climate change-driven environmental shifts (such as rising temperatures, declining air quality, changing patterns of vector-borne diseases, and increasingly frequent extreme weather events) create and intensify threats to health and health and social services. Particular attention will be paid to how these threats are unevenly distributed, disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and patients already burdened by social, economic, and environmental inequities. Impacted groups can include people living with mental health conditions, those experiencing homelessness, older adults, women and gender-diverse people, Indigenous and racialized communities, people with disabilities, and others facing intersecting vulnerabilities.  

This cycle will run for 6-8 weeks on Tuesdays, beginning April 7. Registration is open on a rolling basis, meaning those interested can register at any time before and throughout the cycle and attend any number of sessions. Registrants will receive a calendar invitation to the entire cycle (all sessions).

 

Détails
le Mardi 7 Avril 2026 - 12:00
le Mardi 14 Avril 2026 - 00:00
le Mardi 21 Avril 2026 - 00:00
le Mardi 28 Avril 2026 - 00:00
le Mardi 5 Mai 2026 - 00:00
le Mardi 12 Mai 2026 - 00:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Virtual

Mentions and measures: How are Indigenous values considered in impact assessments?

This webinar is hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)

# Webinar description

In Canada’s oil and gas industry, impact assessments (IAs) are used to determine the positive and negative externalities of proposed projects. These assessments tend to prioritize economic gains over the values of Indigenous communities who bear the weight of impacts. We will discuss how Indigenous values are understood and considered alongside standardized economic measures in decision-making. This webinar presents a thematic inductive analysis of six National Energy Board (NEB) reports for project approvals in the Alberta oil and gas industry. Our findings evidence how Indigenous values shared in the IAs are interconnected to health and well-being, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous leadership in IA for informed decision-making.

# Learning objectives

  • Identify what measures and components were used to inform recent IA reports prepared by the NEB for major oil and gas projects approved under federal jurisdiction.
  • Understand to what extent the application of these measures and components reflect Indigenous values and the interconnections to Indigenous health and wellbeing.

Please note: webinar registration is limited to 1000 participants. This webinar will be recorded; by registering for this webinar you are providing your consent to this recording. The webinar registration and delivery is in English only.

Unauthorized recording, screen capture, or distribution of this webinar is strictly prohibited.

Détails
le Mardi 3 Mars 2026 - 14:00
2:00-3:30 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Webinar

Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers

This course is offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

In successful health care systems, managers play a vital role in meeting key strategic and improvement goals. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI's) Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers uses innovative teaching methods to enhance engagement and deepen understanding of quality improvement to improve organizational efficiency, patient safety, and staff and patient experience.

  • Describe the skills, tools, and resources needed for mid-level managers to effectively lead quality improvement efforts at the local level.

  • Demonstrate how to link department-level improvement activities to the organization’s goals and overall strategic plan.

  • Apply approaches to quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement that can be used by mid-level managers to successfully partner with front-line staff and key stakeholders.

Throughout this virtual program, experts with a wealth of experience in improvement science, measurement, modeling, coaching, innovation, and making the business case for improvement will facilitate discussion about the key takeaways from the cases while teaching the skills managers need to excel in their jobs. 

Individual registration: $995 (USD) Groups of 3 or more: $846 per person (USD)

Détails
le Mardi 9 Juin 2026 - 14:00
16 weeks starting June 9
Coût : 
$995 (USD)
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Community Event
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Better Quality Through Better Measurement | Online Course with Coaching

This online course and coaching are offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Measurement lies at the heart of quality improvement. Without the correct measurement tools, measure alignment, and clear operational definitions, QI professionals risk not only burdening their team with inefficient practices, but gathering poor data and drawing poor conclusions.

In this program, you will discover what quality measurement is and why it matters, how to set a clear and achievable aim, how to define a family of measures tightly linked to your aim, how to choose and collect the right data, and how to display and analyze your data in run and control charts to support improvement. You can bring your own improvement project or idea and apply course concepts, tools, and methods or choose from several case studies to use as you apply course learnings. You will benefit from online lessons, live webinars, case studies, coaching, and peer interaction.

# Learning Goals

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the concepts and methods of measurement for improvement

  • Apply the steps/tools in the quality measurement journey to a system you are improving

  • Design a family of measures 

  • Construct effective data collection plans that incorporate stratification and sampling methods

  • Design run and control charts to analyze data for improvement

  • Distinguish common and special cause variation in data 

 

Détails
le Jeudi 16 Avril 2026 - 13:45
6 weeks beginning April 16
Coût : 
$549 (USD)
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Community Event
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Online

From framework to action: Launching the HEC Health Equity Framework

This webinar is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC)

Join us for the first webinar in the two-part HEC Health Equity Framework webinar series of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange. 

We’ll explore the co-development of HEC’s Health Equity Framework and how the framework’s actions can advance access to safe, high-quality care. Participants will gain an understanding of the guiding commitments behind the framework, its eight actions, and how individuals, teams, and organizations can create safer, more inclusive, and equitable care.

Détails
le Mardi 3 Mars 2026 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Webinar

EXTRA Fellowship Open House

This open house is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada

Join us for a virtual open house to learn more about EXTRA, Healthcare Excellence Canada’s (HEC’s) team-based leadership development program focused on helping leaders improve healthcare quality and safety. 

Explore how EXTRA supports leaders and teams in building their capacity to accelerate improvement, working on real-world improvement projects and turning improvement ideas into lasting change. You’ll also get a firsthand look at our coaching approach and can ask questions. 

HEC will offer EXTRA open houses in both English and French.

  • Open House (English): March 31, 2026, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
  • Open House (French): April 2, 2026, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET

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Détails
le Mardi 31 Mars 2026 - 12:00
le Jeudi 2 Avril 2026 - 12:00
March 31 (English) & April 2 (French), 12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online

Health Care Across Contexts: Community Perspectives

This Community of Practice Call is presented by the Dr. Peter Centre and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

# Session Details

Drawing on over two decades of work across Africa and Canada, this session explores lived experiences navigating healthcare systems and models of care, particularly for African, Caribbean, and Black communities. 

Glenda Tambudzai Muzenda will reflect on what works, what fall short, and why community-led, culturally competent approaches are essential to improving access, trust, and health outcomes. 

The session will highlight practical insights from HIV, GBV, and mental health programming and invite participants to think critically about how systems can better respond to community realities.

# Why Join

  • Gain insight into how healthcare systems and models of care are experienced on the ground by African, Caribbean, and Black communities. 
  • Explore practical lessons from HIV, mental health, and gender-based violence programming. 
  • Reflect on how community knowledge can inform more culturally competent, trauma-informed, and equitable approaches to care. 
  • Engage in shared learning with peers navigating similar system-level challenges.

Glenda Tambudzai Muzenda is a health equity leader and human rights advocate with over 20 years of experience in HIV programming, gender justice, and community-led health systems. Her work focuses on African, Caribbean, and Black communities and spans research, policy, and program leadership across Africa and Canada. She is a Desmond Tutu Global Fellowship recipient and holds a Master’s in Development Studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

# About the Dr. Peter Centre

The Dr. Peter Centre is a health care facility located in Vancouver, BC, dedicated to providing compassionate care and support to the "sidelined 2%". 

Approximately 750,000 Canadians living with complex, overlapping health and social challenges like HIV/AIDS, mental health challenges, substance use and homelessness.

As both a direct service provider and a national leader in frontline care, the Centre offers a safe and inclusive environment for healing and connection while sharing its model of care across Canada.

Détails
le Jeudi 5 Mars 2026 - 14:00
2:00-3:00 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Community Event
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Zoom