Abstract Body

Background: In supporting better healthcare for person centred care, it is expected that physicians increasingly take the role of Health Advocacy (HA). Despite the evident value and need of HA in primary care, incorporating this remains challenging. That is why it is also difficult to educate future General Practitioners as Healthcare Advocates at the workplace. Central to this workshop is the struggle professionals within primary healthcare teams have with learning and practicing HA.

Aim: to identify practical situations in order to make the education of the HA role more explicit. HA is a mindset but also a set of knowledge and skills. (Boroumand 2020) A competent HA professional in a primary healthcare team understands factors as health inequities and influences of health policy on the patient population, but also mobilizes resources for personal centred care. (Hubinette 2014, 2017)

The resuts are 1) to express the developments of HA competence and the importance of HA for primary healthcare, 2) to reflect on opportunities and threats of developing HA within practice and training, and 3) to share best-practice and formulate suggestions for individual and (interprofessional) team activities to develop HA activities and education.

Method and timetable: We start the workshop with sharing images of the HA in 2025 in breakout rooms (20’). After that we present the evidence and discuss our research of HA (20’). We share and collect best practices with HA in participant’s experience (20’) and formulate individual and plenary conclusions to stimulate (education in) HA in primary healthcare teams (30’).