Grant: Team Grant: THINC Knowledge Mobilization & Impact Hub

The CIHR Transforming Health with Integrated Care (THINC) initiative is a bold step forward to address the very complex challenges associated with implementing and sustaining integrated care at scale. Upwards of 100 grants have been funded to contribute to the knowledge base and the application of knowledge to improve patient and caregiver experience, provider experience, health outcomes and costs while considering and addressing health equity (the so-called Quintuple Aim). These many projects are each providing a little bit of knowledge about how policies and practices can be improved to better serve the needs of Canadians and particularly those with complex health and social needs who would benefit most from integrated care. But something is needed to help tie together these multiple projects into a coherent approach. Also, there is great need to ensure that the new knowledge created by these many projects is amplified and shared beyond project teams to all THINC participants and further afield to knowledge users across Canada. Our team has created the Network for Integrated Care Excellence (NICE) Canada to achieve these purposes. We will work closely with the THINC grantees including knowledge users, providers, patients, family and caregivers as well as researchers to synthesize and amplify the key learnings from all corners of the THINC initiative. NICE Canada also supports an Indigenous-led self-determined parallel and intersecting community. NICE Canada is created on the foundation of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Canada country hub. NICE Canada is leveraging the network of more than 4000 participants in IFIC Canada activities and will be the largest source of knowledge, practice and experience relating to integrated care in Canada. With NICE Canada, we will amplify and generate a movement of the people to advance integrated care from coast to coast to coast.