Choosing Sustainability
Wednesday 27 May
08:40 – 09:10
Choosing to aim for sustainability in general practice is about daring to sometimes do less. In a culture fixated on interventions, technology, and health surveillance, purposeful restraint may be the most radical act – for our patients and for the planet.
Stefán Hjörleifsson
General practitioner in Bergen since 2001, currently practising at Alrek Legesenter. Associate professor of family medicine at the University of Bergen since 2008.
Chair of Choosing Wisely Norway (2019–2025), the Norwegian Medical Association’s initiative to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and currently a member of its steering group.
Co-lead of the project Sustainability in General Practice together with Professor Linn Okkenhaug Getz, an innovation project within the Norwegian College of General Practice that promotes sustainability in healthcare by strengthening the role of GPs as coordinators of resource-conscious care and by raising public awareness of the harms of medical overuse.
Chair of the Committee on Sustainability and Value-Based Care established by the Nordic Federation of General Practice in 2024.
CONGRESS SECRETARIAT
Meetx is the congress bureau handling the congress secretariat for NCGP 2026.
E-mail: ncgp2026@meetx.se
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract
Call for abstracts opens: September 2025
Extended submission deadline: December 18, 2025
Notification: February 12, 2026
Registration
Early bird deadline: February 25, 2026
Registration closes: May 15, 2026