The 2024 Oxford Statement

At the 2024 ILC international conference in Oxford UK, the ILC community endorsed three recommendations for the nursing profession and care teams across the globe to empower care excellence:

• Unite – share experiences, shape common visions for fundamental care, and establish trusting collaborative work environments across all disciplines and with patients, carers and their care networks.
• Change – initiate and continue systematic and structural change work to enhance proficiency for provision of fundamental care enabling and encouraging collaboration across disciplines, boundaries, organisations and systems.
• Lead – educate, foster, advocate for the right environment, culture and resources, and mentor fundamental care leadership from the bedside to management and executive level that is inclusive, innovative and impactful.

The delivery of person-centred fundamental care should be the cornerstone in all healthcare systems. Meeting patients’ fundamental care needs is essential for patients’ safety and recovery, and positive experiences within a healthcare setting (1-3).

Read both the full statement and summary statement below.