International Learning Collaborative (ILC)The ILC brings people together to influence and transform how fundamental care is delivered globally. We provide the opportunity for our members to connect and learn from leaders within their field and provide a platform to collaborate and contribute to real-world systems change.
Fundamental care respects and focuses on a person’s essential needs.
These needs are met through a positive and trusting relationship with the person being cared for, including their family and carers.
The International Learning Collaborative (ILC) is dedicated to creating practical resources to ensure that the Fundamentals of Care are visible and valued in every care setting globally.
Fundamental Care involves actions on the part of the care team that respect and focus on a person’s essential needs to ensure their physical and psychosocial wellbeing. These needs are met by developing positive and trusting relationships with the person being cared for as well as their family and carers (Feo et al., 2017).
The ILC community shares a global vision that recognises the challenges of making fundamental care a valued and essential element in a person’s self-care, health and wellbeing and a set of evidence-based behaviours and actions that inform every educational, clinical and care setting. For radical transformation within health systems globally, we must engage all members involved in care settings: consumers, clinicians, educators, leaders, researchers, policy-makers, politicians and students.
The ILC’s efforts over the past decade have led to increased recognition of the importance of fundamental care however, more needs to be done globally. The ILC provides a platform for members to collaborate and advocate for real-world systems change. It is only through coordinated, collaborative effort that we will, and must, achieve real change. The ILC needs people who value Fundamental Care and champion the development and implementation of change across all sectors of care.
Professor Alison Kitson, ILC Founder talks about: Fundamental Care is a ‘wicked problem’ I think I had an ‘Aha’ moment recently. It was when I was preparing a keynote presentation
The 12th ILC 2021 Annual International Conference took place on 9 and 10 June 2021 with attendees from more than 14 countries joining the ILC’s first ever virtual conference. The
A new Danish book on Fundamental Care, edited by ILC members, is now available. The book focuses on the application of the Fundamentals of Care Framework across clinical practice, research
The ILC is excited to announce a third Special Issue on Fundamental Care. For the first time, the Special Issue will be published through the Journal of Advanced Nursing, and
ILC Steering Committee member Prof David Richards and his team have been awarded a large grant from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the UK Research and Innovation
A Fundamentals of Care textbook, written in Swedish and edited by ILC members Drs Asa Muntlin and Eva Jangland, is now out! Click here to see the Table of Contents
Access a network of nursing and healthcare consumers, researchers, educators, clinicians, policymakers, and leaders whose goal is to radically transform fundamental care delivery worldwide.
Members are able to access exclusive ILC FoC resources, events and content. Our new 'Find a Member' functionality allows members to communicate globally with an engaged FoC community
ILC Members can access significant discounts on the ILC Annual International Conferences and events, bringing our community of FoC advocates together to initiate change in healthcare internationally.
The ILC is dedicated to undertaking co-design at a local, regional and global level. Together we can instigate change in Fundamental Care by getting Involved in research and quality improvement projects.
The ILC generates opportunities to actively shape the ongoing dialogue and research and practice agenda on fundamental care, making a real impact to healthcare systems and to people’s care experiences.
The ILC needs global representation at every level of research, practice, education and policy - add your voice to our global message about the importance of FoC in your community.