2nd Global Conference on Person-Centred Care

The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) is pleased to announce the 2nd Global Conference on Person-Centred Care, that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, 5-7 May 2026. Optional pre-conference workshops will be offered 4-5 May, followed by the full programme of the conference.

The 2nd GCPCC will focus on bridging practice, organisation and governance as related to person-centred care. The conference will platform several interdisciplinary and interprofessional fields, including integrated care, comprehensive care, and personalised health, and look at how these are anchored in partnerships bridging healthcare practices and organisations, as well as governance, policy and structural levels. This conference should therefore be of great interest to health professionals, patient and family carer representatives, researchers from various disciplines, designers, artists, leaders and decision-makers in health care and health policy, as well as the healthcare industry. The conference will be an on-site event.

Within the theme Person-Centred Care: Bridging Practice, Organisation and Governance, the keynotes and parallel streams will strive to synthesise and bridge a diversity of perspectives and various types of knowledge to person-centred care.

The programme will cover a range of streams, such as:

• ‍Living with health, illness and suffering
• Evaluation of interventions
• Healthcare policy‍
• ‍Patient and public involvement and patient rights
• Healthcare governance
• Healthcare organization
• Children and youth
• Comprehensive/integrated care
• Digitalisation/eHealth‍
• ‍Disasters and time critical events
• Equity, justice and diversity
• Global and local perspectives
• Life-limiting illness, loss and death
• Implementation/knowledge translation
• Indigenous health
• Informal care and carers‍
• ‍Learning and education
• People of old age
• Precision health
  

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, art/media/performance or workshop.

Deadline for abstract submission is August 25, followed by a second call for abstracts, which will be limited to poster presentations, with deadline November 16.

Registration for the GCPCC conference will also give access to Vitalis , the largest eHealth event in Scandinavia offering a large exhibition featuring more than 200 leading industry players showcasing products and services, covering all aspects of e-health and digitalization.

The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) warmly welcomes you to Gothenburg.