Integrated Care Innovation Fund

The Integrated Care Innovation Fund (ICIF) provides financial support to innovative projects that deliver better integration of care, address fragmentation in services and provide high-value healthcare.

Funded projects also demonstrate a willingness to embrace and encourage the uptake of new technology alongside the benefits of integrating care and improving communication between health care sectors.

The ICIF team works in collaboration with HHSs and their local PHNs and other community health providers to develop and progress new models of care and approaches to integrated service delivery.

Each project funded by ICIF will be evaluated by the Healthcare Improvement Unit in Clinical Excellence Queensland, in partnership with project teams and the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, to inform future investment in services and models of care across the state.

A range of outcomes will be evaluated including:

  • change to costs and economic outcomes
  • change to patient satisfaction and patient health
  • acceptability to clinicians
  • information about the likely success or not of implementing new services and models of care.

A consultation process with HHSs has resulted in the full allocation of the $35m ICIF fund.

ICIF projects

Integrated Care Initiative Partnership
Project ECHO Children's Health Queensland
Brisbane South PHN
Brisbane North PHN
Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care (OOHC): Managing their health and developmental needs through integrated care Children's Health Queensland
Brisbane South PHN
Child Health Integrated Care (CHIC): A paediatric shared care innovation for children with developmental and behavioural learning difficulties Sunshine Coast HHS
Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN
Model of Care for People with Diabetes in the Darling Down Region Darling Downs HHS
Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN
Regional Hepatology Partnership Sunshine Coast HHS
Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN
The Torres Strait Primary Oral Health Care Project Torres and Cape HHS
Northern Queensland PHN
Connected Care through Connecting with Communities: Design and implementation of a model for integrated chronic disease care in the Western Corridor of the Central West Hospital and Health Service Central West HHS
Western Queensland PHN
Integrated Allied Health Services in Rural Communities Central Queensland HHS
Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN
Older Persons Enabled and Rehabilitation for complex health conditions (OPEN ARCH) Cairns and Hinterland HHS,
Northern Queensland PHN Metro North HHS
Brisbane North PHN
Integrated Care of the At Risk Older Person   Central Queensland HHS
Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN
Darling Downs Floresco Centre Darling Downs HHS
Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN
Emergency And Community Connect Mackay HHS
Northern Queensland PHN
Start a Movement (Obesity) Mackay HHS
Northern Queensland PHN
QCAT Guardianship process initiative Phase 2 Metro North HHS
QCAT
Integrated respiratory Access Metro South HHS
Brisbane South PHN
Metro South CARE-PACT expansion Metro South HHS
Brisbane South PHN
Gastroenterology/Hepatology Integrated Clinics Metro South HHS
Brisbane South PHN
QEII Older Persons Co ordinated care Metro South HHS
Brisbane South PHN
Disease management model of care in the Lower Gulf North West HHS
Western Queensland PHN
Integrated mental health pathway South West HHS
Western Queensland PHN
Improving Care Of Patients With Back And Neck Pain Through Innovative Pathways Metro North HHS
Brisbane North PHN
Improving Care Of COPD: Diagnosis, Rehab Access And Care Planning Metro North HHS
Brisbane North PHN
Mental Health Collective Impact Project West Moreton HHS
Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN
Last updated: 30 April 2019