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Webinars – Sláintecare
Sláintecare will host its 13th ‘Right Care, Right Place, Right Time’ Webinar, in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on October 21st 2021. This webinar will showcase Leadership by Community Healthcare Network teams across the country, which are based in primary care settings, with the theme of ‘Quality PersonCentred Care’. To register for this event, visit gov.ie/sláintecare, or follow us on Twitter @Sláintecare for more information.
Since June 2020, Sláintecare has hosted 12 ‘Right Care, Right Place, Right Time’ Webinars to share the ongoing learnings from the Integration Fund projects for the implementation of Sláintecare. We have heard from key frontline healthcare staff, and from patients and service users themselves. These projects have shown that our health service is resilient, adaptable, creative and dedicated to achieving the Sláintecare vision of Right Care, Right Place, Right Time.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sláintecare developed a learning network for the 100+ projects funded by the Sláintecare Integration Fund to share project progress, challenges, solutions and learnings, and to enable project teams to communicate with one another. The network moved online in June 2020 so that projects could continue to share their experiences and learnings during the pandemic.
All of the Sláintecare integration-funded projects adapted to delivering their care in innovative ways in the response to COVID-19.
The webinars have showcased stories from a variety of projects and services, grouped in themes such as Chronic Disease Management, eHealth, Improving Access to Care, Health and Wellbeing, Enhanced Community Care, among others. These themes align with the fundamental principles of Sláintecare, ensuring that all care is planned and provided so that the patient/service user is paramount. Healthcare workers and staff at the frontline are often best placed to recognise issues and challenges in the system and to offer innovative solutions. During Covid-19, we have seen how front-line staff, healthcare workers, communities, policy makers, and other key stakeholders responded and were able to quickly adapt and innovate to the demands of the pandemic. Post-Covid, a key project in Sláintecare is to mainstream and scale and the innovation demonstrated by the Sláintecare Integration Fund projects.
