Second Global Conference on Person-Centred Care Bridging Practice, Organisation and Governance

GCPCC 2026 Facts and links

470 delegates from 28 countries - representing all continents except Antarctica - came together to share insights through oral and poster presentations based on more than 300 submitted abstracts.

Posters increased from 149 posters in 2024 to 206.

Keynote speakers

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, PhD, Chief Executive and Director of Research at the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC).

• Chris Graham, CEO of Picker, a leading international charity that exists to promote and improve person centred care. Faculty member at the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and a non-executive director at the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB). Part of the NIHR Quality, Safety, and Outcomes of Health and Social Care Policy Research Unit.
• Juan Bornman, Professor, B(Logopeadia); M(Communication Pathology), PhD Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), Professor in Augmentative and Alternative Communication at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
• Erna Haraldsdottir, Professor, BSc, MSc, PhD Nursing, Professor in Nursing at the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. Deputy Head of Queen Margaret University’s Nursing and Paramedic Science Division and Director of the University’s Centre for Person-centred Research.
• Nasim Bergman Farrokhnia, Professor, BSc, MSc, PhD Nursing, MD, PhD, Industry Director.
• Swarup Sarkar, MD MS, Senior Researcher; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Ambassador, Global Health Security Network, Sydney, Australia; Ex CG Pandit National Chair, Indian Council of Medical Research and Ex Director / Senior Adviser WHO, UNAIDS, UNITAID, GFATM, ADB and CARE International.
• Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Professor of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, Philosophical Advisor at Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sweden.

Bengt Kristensson Uggla was one of two Keynote Speakers at the joint GCPCC/Vitalis opening on Monday 4 May.

Video of joint opening keynote

Watch recorded livestream of GCPCC/Vitalis joint opening session: Opening keynote | Vitalis 2026

Award winners and abstract book

Abstract winners:

The three abstracts all received top scores from the external expert reviewers:

- Val Wilson, Panel: Making an iMPAKT: utilising person-centred nursing & midwifery KPIs and digital technology to transform healthcare environments.

- Jessica Persson Kylén, Oral: Facilitating person-centred oral healthcare in home care: the GAPA model as a bridge between dental and municipal services.

- Elin Siira: Oral: The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Person-Centred Care: Insights from AI-Assisted Triage in Primary Care.

Poster winners:

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As selected by our poster panel Eric Carlström, Kajsa Westling and patient representative Margareta Haag:

- Doctoral student (first author): Angelica Wiljén, The impact of a person-centred digital assessment tool during chemotherapy treatment (B22)

- Scientific quality: Jesús Martín Martín, Effects of a person-centered care intervention on health service use in chronic heart failure: preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial (A96) 

- Practice-based development quality: Matthew Luzentales-Simpson, Building Meaningful Partnerships: Forming & Growing a Patient Advisory Council to Implement. Person-Centred Quality Indicators in Alberta Primary Care. (A95) 

- Novelty: Louise Johnson, Development of a service evaluation tool to understand personalised care delivery –from the perspective of multiple stakeholders. (A91) 

- Layout and design: Samantha Bassingthwaighte (Gay), The effectiveness of Person-Centred Care in South Africa: A Retrospective Qualitative Investigation of Speech-Language Therapists’ Perspectives. (B75) 

Abstract book 

All GCPCC 2026 abstracts are gathered in the abstract book.

GCPCC 2028

The next GCPCC will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden in the spring of 2028.