Niamh Lennox-Chhugani

PhD

Affiliation(s)
Chief Executive and Director of Research at the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC).

Title
Making integrated people-centred care an everyday reality

Abstract
People-centred, or more importantly people-driven care, is a core component of integrated care. Integrated care is care that is coordinated, continuous and centred around needs of the individual in their situation and enables them to live the life that they want as part of their community. There are many overlaps between integrated care and people-centred care but you can have one without the other. Only when our health and care systems use both as fundamental design principles, will we deliver the 21st century care that our populations need. That requires a fundamental shift in how we practice as policy-makers, health and care providers and members of society. I will explore those changes, some of which are already happening in my presentation, challenging all of us to think and act differently to make integrated people-centred care a reality.

Bio
Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is Chief Executive of the International Foundation for Integrated Care. With her background as a clinician, academic and consultant, she is an integrated care researcher and implementer in an international context. She is a regular speaker at conferences, on panels, has authored peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, led and contributed to health system reviews and integrated care evaluations globally. She has a PhD from Imperial College London in organisation change in healthcare. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Integrated Care and sits on the advisory board of numerous integrated care research programmes.