Keynote: Making integrated people-centred care an everyday reality

Keynote: Making integrated people-centred care an everyday reality Passed

Tuesday May 5, 2026 13:30 - 14:00 G3

Key-note speaker: Niamh Lennox Chhugani
Moderators: Inger Ekman, Axel Wolf

Track: Keynotes.

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.

Language

English

Conference

GCPCC

Lecturers

Niamh Lennox Chhugani Key-note speaker

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.

Inger Ekman Moderator

PhD, Senior professor
University of Gothenburg

Inger is the former director and founder of University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) www.gpcc.gu.se, in Sweden. During eight years she was head of the Institute of Health and Care Sciences and during two, vice dean at the Sahlgrenska academy, University of Gothenburg. Between 2013-2015 she coordinated a 7th FP, EU project resulting in a roadmap on future health care in Europe. 2016 - 2020 she was the coordinator of COSTCARES (www.costcares.eu) a European initiative, involving 28 partner countries, on testing implementation of person-centred care. Inger Ekman's research has mainly focused on controlled studies evaluating person-centred care interventions, she has around 170 publications in scientific journals and is at present primary investigator in a randomized controlled trial evaluating remote person-centred care in frail elderly.

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