INTER-ACTION. The Centre for Person-centred Care GPCC is now starting up new research projects and new collaborations. The projects will strengthen the GPCC’s research program for the new six-year period, which corresponds to the transition to person-centred care that is ongoing nationally and internationally. The Centre for person-centred care GPCC will start another six-year period as a center after the summer, which the University of Gothenburg decided on last winter.…
University of Gothenburg extends its commission for Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC)
RESEARCH. Since its inception in 2010, the Centre for Person-Centre Care (GPCC) at the University of Gothenburg has worked for comprehensive change in health care, where patients are more active as partners in their care. After recommendations by external evaluators, the University is now opting to extending GPCC’s commission for six more years. For more than a decade, GPCC has contributed to establishing person-centred care as a central concept in…
European conference held to produce new working plan for person-centred care
RESEARCH COLLABORATION. Inger Ekman has led two EU-projects since 2013 with the aim of testing person-centred care in Europe. On the 11th March a conference with participants from 26 countries was held in order to produce a new plan for continued work. ‘Person-centred care 4 sustainable health systems – How to transform health care in the post-pandemic era’ was the title of the consensus conference was held on Thursday March 11th…
Podcast guest Joakim Öhlén: The picture of palliative care needs to be nuanced
PODCAST. The image that has appeared in the media of palliative care is in many ways incorrect. Professor Joakim Öhlén is the latest guest in the podcast Akademiliv (podcast in Swedish). Here you can hear the podcast with Joakim Öhlén: https://soundcloud.com/sahlgrenskaakademin/podgasten-joakim-ohlen-bilden-av-palliativ-vard-behover-nyanseras Patients do not have to be dying to receive palliative care, instead, according to Joakim Öhlén, palliative care is a kind of life help, which helps patients to live…
A celebration in dialogue and partnership when GPCC celebrated its 10th anniversary
CONFERENCE. On February 6–7, 350 people gathered at the Wallenberg Conference Center for two packed days of seminars, workshops, exhibitions and a gala dinner. The theme was “Together for Better Health Care and Medical Services”. Almost exactly 10 years after the inauguration of the Center for Person-Centered Care (GPCC), the center returned to the same place to celebrate and to discuss what has been achieved during the decade and its…