GCPCC 2024 – Global Conference on Person-Centred Care

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Global Conference on Person-Centred Care

Knowledge(s) and Innovations for Health in Changing Societies

The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) is pleased to announce the first Global Conference on Person-Centred Care, that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from May 14^th-16^th, 2024. Optional pre-conference workshops will be offered lunch to lunch from the 13-14^thMay, followed by the full programme of the main conference from noon on May 14^th to noon on May 16^th.

The GPCC was established in 2010 envisioning sustainable health through sustainable care: to prevent and decrease suffering, and to strengthen the efficacy of health care through person-centred care, with the support of the Swedish Government’s strategic investment in research. Interdisciplinary research and knowledge utilization is accomplished through local, regional, national and international collaboration with different stakeholders and experts.

The aim of the Global Conference on Person-Centred Care is to provide an arena for diverse people with an interest in furthering person-centred care practice, innovations, perspectives, and knowledges. The conference will provide an arena for explorations and accounts of person-centred care as related to several interdisciplinary and interprofessional fields, including integrated care, comprehensive care, and personalised health founded on partnerships, transcending healthcare practices and organisations, as well as policy and structural levels. We hope to create opportunities for networking in a person-centred community that will flourish beyond the conference.

The conference will thus be of interest to health professionals from across the globe, patient and family carer representatives, researchers and students from various disciplines, leaders and decisions-makers in healthcare and health policy, as well as the healthcare industry. The conference will offer condensed versions of presentations online but all presenters are expected to travel to Gothenburg, Sweden to present their abstracts in person.

Different types of abstracts are welcome such as empirical, theoretical, literature reviews, practice-based examples, as well as art, performance and media. Formats for presentations are poster, oral, symposia/panel, or workshop (with interactive component).

The conference will also include a special session on state of the science in person-centred care. This will build on review contributions from conference delegates. Therefore, abstracts on reviews of person-centred care are welcome, and choose this topic when you submit your abstract.

Deadline for abstract submission will be October 6^th, followed by a second call for abstracts with deadline by the end of 2023.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Brendan McCormack

Elizabeth Hanson

Joanne Greenhalgh

Elvis Imafidon

Jon Petter A Stoor

Viktoria Stein

Bradi Granger

In line with the overall theme, keynotes and parallel streams will strive to synthesise and bridge a diversity of perspectives and knowledges in approaches to person-centred care. To facilitate fruitful encounters, the programme will cover a range of topics on person-centred care, welcoming submissions of proposed presentations. Areas include but are not limited to:

Children and youth
Comprehensive/integrated care
Digitalisation/eHealth
Disasters and time critical events’
Equity/health justice/patient rights/diversity or inclusion
Global perspectives
Implementation/knowledge translation
Indigenous health

Informal care and carers
Learning and education
Life-limiting conditions
Local perspectives
People of old age
Politics of health and care
Precision health

Different types of abstracts are welcome such as empirical, theoretical, literature reviews, practice-based examples, as well as art, performance and media. The second call for abstracts is open for oral or poster presentations. We especially welcome abstracts from patient- or informal care representatives as well as art/performance/media contributions.

We are currently planning our pre-conference workshops and are happy to announce that Dr. Brendan McCormack in collaboration with the PCP-ICOP network will host a workshop called Developing person-centred cultures: participatory methodologies and practices. Dr. Joanne Greenhalgh is also conducting a pre-conference workshop on Realist methods. More information on the pre-conference workshops, schedule and how to register will be announced here continually.

Deadline for abstract submission will be October 6^th, followed by a second call for abstracts with deadline by the end of 2023.

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FIRST CALL

We are pleased to announce the first
Global Conference on Person-Centred Care,
which will take place at the Swedish Exhibition Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 14^th-16^th, 2024.

First Call