Turn your improvement strategies into a global conversation
Attendees from across the world are looking for ideas from real-life improvement strategies to take back to their own settings.
That’s where the posters at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare – the world’s biggest quality improvement event – come in. They 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 displaying your project to 2,000+ improvers at the biggest event of its kind
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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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Start conversations and collaborations with teams worldwide
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Raise the profile of your organisation and celebrate successes
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Demonstrate ideas that work and can be adapted by others
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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
Don’t miss out on some of these opportunities to take your poster project well beyond the conference walls.
Poster Display
All posters will be displayed physically in the Community Zone at the venue, organised by stream.
All posters will also be available on our event app, which attendees can access before, during, and after the conference. Through the app, attendees can browse a gallery of quality and improvement articles and view posters by topic, keywords, and authors.
Poster Stage Presentations and Poster Awards
Poster Stage Presentations: Six stream-themed stages in the Community Zone will host 5-minute oral poster talks during breaks and lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday, offering a chance to share your improvement project with peers.
Poster Awards and Showcase: Our Poster Champions will shortlist one poster presentation per stream. The authors of these shortlisted posters will be invited to present on the main stage on Wednesday afternoon, where the audience will vote for the top three. The three winners will receive free registration for the 2027 Europe International Forum.
Presentations will be recorded and shared on the event app post-conference.
Evening Reception with Facilitated Poster Walkaround
All attendees are invited to our evening reception in the Community Zone on Tuesday, 10 March. This is an additional opportunity to showcase your poster and discuss your work with your peers.
Our Poster Champions will select a handful of posters to be showcased in a facilitated Poster Walkaround during the reception.
Abstract Publication in BMJ
You could choose to have your abstract published in our Poster Supplement in the March 2026 edition of BMJ Open Quality journal.
More details and associated timelines will be shared with all poster authors in due course.
The poster session I attended was one of the most valuable poster sessions of any conference I have been to. Excellent work and great collegiality.
Attendee in London 2024Poster streams
Safety
Redesigning systems to anticipate and prevent harm, foster psychological safety, and strengthen resilience – embedding human-centered, forward-looking safety science
People
Creating thriving, inclusive teams through co-production, workforce equity, and strategies that drive meaning, purpose, and joy in work
Leading
Mobilising leadership to deliver better outcomes, equity, sustainability, and workforce wellbeing across every level of the system
Populations
Transforming care to meet the needs of whole populations – integrating data, addressing inequities, shifting care to the community, and aligning services across systems and sectors
Change
Activating change at scale by applying implementation science, systems thinking, and the power of networks and movements
Science
Using the best of improvement science – rigorous methods, real-world evaluation, and learning systems to accelerate results
Technology
Leveraging the best of digital and the best of human to transform health and healthcare, and achieve unprecedented outcomes
Strengthening the core
Please highlight if your poster also fits within our Foundations stream – Strengthening the core. This stream will highlight hands-on workshops or projects for essential quality improvement tools to build skills, confidence, and lasting impact.
What you will receive from us
Poster Information Page (pre-event): Access to our Poster Information Page highlighting key and upcoming deadlines, all information for poster activities, social media assets as well as guidelines, examples and top tips for designing your poster
Online Poster Orientation and Briefing (pre-event): Join our poster lead to find out more about the poster activities at the conference, as well as further information ahead of the event and top tips on designing your poster. This is also an opportunity to connect with other poster authors.
The briefing will be recorded and made available for those unable to join live.
Poster Certificate (post-event): A Poster Certificate will be sent to you electronically following the conference to confirm that you displayed your poster. If you took part in a Poster Stage Presentation, you will also receive an additional certificate.
The poster sessions are a way to get a real sense of what Quality Improvers are doing on the ground in different places across the globe. It really is the essence of QI – starting small while thinking big!
Attendee in London 2024How does Call for Posters work?
Step 1 – Submit your poster abstract: The submissions portal will be open until midnight GMT on 29 October 2025
Step 2 – Your abstract is reviewed: Once the submissions portal has closed, abstracts will be reviewed based on the programme criteria
Step 3 – Receive your result: You will be informed by email in late November 2025 if your poster has been accepted for display in Oslo
Step 4 – Complete your registration: If your poster is accepted for display, to take advantage of this opportunity, you must register to attend in person and pay the full fee for the two main event days (Tuesday, 10 March and Wednesday, 11 March 2026). There are no one-day registration options. The deadline for all poster authors to register and pay to attend the International Forum in Oslo is 28 January 2026, allowing you to take advantage of our Early Bird offers, which will end on 21 January 2026.
Step 5 – Prepare to showcase your project: Your registration will trigger a confirmation of your poster display. You will receive details about onsite poster activities that you can take part in. You will also receive the guidelines for creating your poster as well as instructions on how to upload it to our platform ahead of the conference.
Frequently asked questions about posters
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When are poster submissions due?
Call for Posters will close at midnight GMT on 29 October 2025.
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Can my abstract for poster display be written on any topic?
You can submit to one of our topics: Safety, People, Leading, Populations, Change, Science, or Technology. You will be asked to choose the topic you are submitting to during the submission process. Please make sure that your abstract matches the topic you are submitting to.
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Do I have to pay to display my poster?
Yes, you must register to attend in person and pay the full fee for the two main event days (Tuesday, 10 March and Wednesday, 11 March 2026) by 28 January 2026.
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When is the latest I can register to display my poster?
The deadline for all poster authors to register and pay to attend the International Forum in Oslo is 28 January 2026.
This allows you to book with our Early Bird offers, which end on 21 January 2025, or with our Super Early Bird ones if you’d like to book ahead of receiving your poster result. Super Early Bird registration will go live in late August and will end on 19 November 2025.
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Will I get a certificate for displaying a poster?
All poster authors will receive a Poster Certificate. It will be sent to you via email two weeks after the International Forum.
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What should I do if I am unable to display my poster myself in person?
If you cannot be in Oslo in person, consider whether a colleague can attend instead and display your poster for you.
If so, you must inform us by email at events@bmj.com so we can guarantee a space for your poster. Please include the full abstract title and the name, email address and organisation for your replacement.
Please note that your colleague cannot already be presenting a poster of their own. We have a strict policy of one poster display per presenter.