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Our learning from the ICA

Our expertise, results, and experience

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The ICA has delivered a wide range of projects collaboratively to enable integrated care.

This has ranged from delivering new education and training programmes supporting our workforce, innovative projects to deliver new ways of working and technology to benefit our residents, patients and staff who are supporting them and novel research to provide new insights.

Integrated Care In The Community
Co-production

Find out more about the impact of our co-production training, how we have gathered real experiences to help improve cancer care, and how we bring colleagues together to share and learn through their own experiences of co-production.

 

Education
Hear from colleagues who have taken part in postgraduate learning in integrated care and how they have applied their learning in practice, including:

 

Leadership

Our programmes deliver high-impact courses that advance leadership practice beyond conventional thinking. We emphasise a shift from leadership as directing to leadership as cultivating strong relationships, embedding a coaching approach, and fostering collaborative, co-produced communities of practice that enable genuine transformational change.

 

Innovation

Discover how we have successfully embedded innovation across our system by creating a culture that supports people with lived experience, clinicians and experts to work together to reduce barriers to innovation, share learning and deliver impactful innovative projects.

 

Research

Learn more about how our research has provided the foundation for evidence-based decision-making and strengthened the evidence base by generating high-quality evidence to inform policies, practices, and interventions within integrated care systems.

 

  • Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) Suffolk pilot
  • Healthy Ageing in Suffolk
  • Barriers to access Urgent and Emergency Care
  • Co-production
Workforce planning

Learn more about how our courses have supported organisations’ development of workforce strategies, plans, redesign and delivery of new models of care.

 

  • Essentials of Integrated Workforce Planning and Essentials of Workforce Cost Management
  • Foundations of Workforce Planning (6 Masterclasses)
87%

had a positive reaction to the Long COVID Optimal Health Programme and found it to be acceptable in improving their wellbeing. Participants agreed that the programme is likely to be effective.

100%
agreed that the quality of the facilitation and teaching is excellent. 97% stated they have benefited from attending the programme, and 90% agreed that it has enabled them to work in partnership with other delegates. These findings were published in the One Team Mid-Programme Evaluation Report, released in February 2023.
150+

delegates have attended our Workforce programmes to date, including ‘The Essentials of Workforce Planning’ and ‘The Essentials of Workforce Cost Management’.

98%
of people who have attended our Workforce programmes reported that they would recommend our training to a colleague if asked.
100%

all participants reported being very satisfied with the knowledge gained from the course and 100% felt they had achieved their desired learning outcomes and that the course fully met their expectations.

9.62/10
when asked how likely they were to recommend the programme to a colleague, the average rating out of 10 was 9.62.
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Delegates reported feeling more confident in their role, more self-aware, and more understanding of team dynamics and tools for different approaches. They also reported being more aware of their own well-being and that of their team.

Lead Cancer Nurse Coaching Programme, July 2024

The co-production training provided methods of involving people, communities, and partners plus motivation to co-produce.

Participant, Co-production short course training

The workshop is excellent for exploring co-production as a concept but also for contacts to develop projects going forward.

Participant, Mid & South Essex integrated care

Really good to meet as a system to share good practices and shared understanding of co-production and how we can better work together.

Delegate, ICS, Co-production Workshop

Seeing the different modelling approaches, Colin was knowledgeable and kept to topics to the right length. I rarely get to cross sectors of the network, so I really enjoyed meeting new people.

Introduction to Workforce Planning and Health & Care Workforce Transformation’ training with ICA, SNEE ICB & University of Suffolk