IFIC Forum discussion on Purpose

[Alies Maybee]

The Nine Pillars of Integrated Care 2026 Forum Series Forum Discussion on Purpose

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As part of our series of Forum Discussions on the Nine Pillars of Integrated Care in which we explore international experiences of integrated care, we are delighted to host the fifth in our series of nine Forums to launch the revised Pillars.
Shared purpose for integrated care matters because integrated care is, fundamentally, an attempt to get people to work together who otherwise wouldn't — across professional boundaries, organisational divides, the split between health and social care, and the gap between formal services and the people they serve. Without something that pulls in a common direction, each actor defaults to their own internal logic: at the risk of oversimplifying, the hospital to throughput, the GP to list size, the social worker to safeguarding thresholds, the commissioner to contract compliance. Shared purpose is what makes collective action possible in a system where no single authority can simply issue orders.

Join IFIC for an interactive Forum Discussion focused on the Shared purpose 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
• Whose purpose is it, really?
• What are each of us willing to give up for it?
• How would we know if our shared purpose was actually wrong?