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 |
