Call for Posters is now open

Share your work with a global community of healthcare improvers and see your project added to a showcase that represents the best of quality improvement worldwide.

Call for Posters will close 7 October 2026.

Turn your improvement strategies into a global conversation

The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has a rich history of supporting and energising the international movement for health and care improvement. We connect health and care leaders, practitioners and those with lived experience to collaboratively improve outcomes for our communities.

By displaying your poster at the conference, you will be part of a global movement to ignite change across healthcare networks and inspire an audience with the power to make a real difference.

Attendees from across the world are looking for ideas from real-life improvement strategies to take back to their own settings. Posters represent the solid work done on the ground to implement improvement, introduce change, and adapt problem-solving to real-life challenges.
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    Get recognition for your project by displaying at the biggest healthcare improvement event in Europe.
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    Demonstrate ideas that work and can be adapted by others.
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    Raise the profile of your organisation and celebrate successes.
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    Start conversations and collaborations with teams worldwide.
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    Showcase your ideas, strategies, and achievements to key international opinion leaders and colleagues from around the world.
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    Make change happen and influence outcomes on a global scale.

Showcase your quality improvement or patient safety project during and after the conference

The International Forum brings together people from around the world to improve patient outcomes by sharing ideas, projects, and experiences across different countries and healthcare systems. It creates opportunities to learn what works and what does not, while connecting healthcare professionals, patients, and communities to drive better care together.

Poster Display

All posters will be displayed physically in the Community Zone at the venue, organised by subtopic (selected during the submission process).

We will be looking to offer the option to have your Poster printed locally in Lisbon and shipped directly to the venue. More information will be provided when results are sent.

Poster Stage Presentations

Poster dedicated stages in the Community Zone will host 5-minute oral poster talks during breaks and lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, offering a chance to share your improvement project with peers.

Poster Awards

Poster award winners will be selected based on the initial results judged by our Poster Champions. The authors of these shortlisted posters will be announced after the registration deadline on 3 March, and will be invited to present their project on a Poster stage at the conference, as well as part of a webinar series after the conference. There will be five shortlisted Posters per stream.

Abstract Publication in BMJ

Submitted Poster abstracts from the conference will also be published in a Supplement of BMJ Open Quality journal after the conference (published by June 2027).

Poster submission topics for Lisbon 2027

We want to hear about projects and initiatives that show impactful results under these six streams/topics:

1. Safety: The stream for work that designs harm out of systems before it happens. Submissions cover anticipatory and human-centred safety science, psychological safety, and how teams build resilience and recover well when things go wrong.

2. People: The stream about everyone healthcare depends on: the workforce, and the people who use services, their carers, families and communities. Submissions cover co-production, equity and inclusion, and the conditions that bring meaning, purpose and joy to work.

3. Populations: The stream for work that reshapes care around whole populations. Submissions cover the use of data, action on inequalities and inequities, the shift of care closer to home, and the alignment of services across systems and sectors.

4. Change: The stream for work on making change happen at scale. Submissions cover implementation, systems thinking, and the power of networks and movements to shift practice across teams, organisations and whole systems.

5. Science: The stream for the methods of improvement. Submissions cover rigorous methods and study designs, real-world evaluation, and learning systems, applied to deliver results and scale up interventions that hold up to scrutiny.

6. Leading: The stream for work on mobilising and equipping leaders in any context and at every level, to deliver better outcomes, equity, sustainability and workforce wellbeing. Submissions cover leadership development, distributed and informal leadership, and the role of leaders in culture, equity and system change.

7. Technology: The stream for work that integrates the best of digital and the best of human, to transform care, reduce burden, and reach outcomes we could not reach before.

Poster webinars

The best ideas shouldn’t stay on a board.

The International Forum Oslo 2026 gathered the brightest minds in healthcare quality and safety, showcasing hundreds of innovative Posters. Now, we’re bringing the research off the walls and onto your screen.

Impact in Focus is a 6-part webinar series that dives deep into the Posters showcased at the International Forum Oslo. Each session focuses on a core stream, featuring the highest scoring Posters which are redefining the standards of care.
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You will be notified of the outcome of your submission by email in early November 2026.

Please note that the email address that you supply on the Submitter Details page when submitting your proposal will be the email address used to correspond the results of your submission. If you change email addresses during this time, please let us know by emailing events@bmj.com so we can update our system.