Bridging Practices

PrEP is a powerful prevention tool, but using it effectively requires solid knowledge of dosing schemes, reimbursement criteria, and patient selection. This interactive workshop offers a practical guide to integrating PrEP into your daily practice. You’ll learn to differentiate between daily and on-demand regimens, and between PrEP and PEP. You’ll explore how to identify suitable candidates and discuss sexual health using a combined prevention approach. We also examine the specific role of GPs in Flanders and Brussels, including coordination with HIV reference centres, and look at how to reach more vulnerable and marginalised communities.

A crisis in a residential care setting demands quick decisions and clear agreements. But who takes the lead, and when? Drawing on realistic case scenarios, this workshop maps out the role of each stakeholder: the GP, the coordinating physician, the care home team and the family. You’ll gain insight into past challenges and how those lessons can strengthen collaboration going forward, with a particular focus on the relationship between the GP and the coordinating physician, where effective crisis management so often begins.

How can you make quality improvement feasible in a busy practice? We explore the Recommendations for High-Quality General Practice (developed by Domus Medica & SSMG) and translate these into concrete improvement steps. Bring your own examples: we learn from each other’s approaches and contexts.

Cancer screening saves lives, but only if it is effectively implemented in day-to-day practice. This workshop provides a clear overview of existing screening programmes, practical tools for GPs and the scientific evidence underpinning screening. Using concrete examples and key data, we will demonstrate why prevention is a core component of general practice and why your role really does make a difference.

Return to work trajectories for people with long-term work disability are receiving increased attention in recent government policy. Through several waves of reforms, new measures and responsibilities have been introduced for all involved stakeholders, including treating physicians, mutual health organisations, occupational physicians, employers, and patients.
As the treating physician, the general practitioner plays a central role within this evolving landscape. Dr. Maaike van Overloop is closely involved in the ongoing cabinet-level discussions concerning these return-to-work measures and reforms.

During this interactive session, she will provide an overview of the steps that have already been taken, explain what we may expect in the future, and discuss the impact on the daily clinical practice. Participants will be invited to share questions, concerns, and experiences from the field, which can in turn be taken into account in future policy discussions and stakeholder consultations.

What are the possibilities of AI in general practice, and how do you get started with these new tools in your own practice? Through a broad overview of new technologies and concrete experiences from practice, we inform and inspire general practitioners and practice staff in this session on how AI can provide support with medical as well as administrative and logistical tasks.

Climate and environment are no longer distant concerns. They show up in your consulting room every day. Heat stress, air quality, vector-borne diseases: the health impact on your patients is real and growing. In this workshop, we explore the GP’s role in this shifting landscape. You’ll discover how to bring environmental and climate challenges into the conversation with patients, and learn to work with practical awareness tools, for your practice and for the people you care for.

Are practice nurses a luxury or a necessity? Through an interactive format, we challenge common beliefs, confront data and discuss experiences from different regions and practice types. We explore role definitions, time savings versus costs, and what it really takes to build a strong team. Expect honest insights, practical examples, and a fresh perspective on how practice nurses can help shape the future of primary care. This session is aimed at general practitioners who want to explore collaborating with a nurse.

Heart failure follows an unpredictable course, yet the shift toward a palliative approach is often made too late, or too hesitantly. In this workshop, you’ll explore when and how to reorient treatment toward comfort and quality of life. You’ll get to know the tools available to support this process and learn how to collaborate effectively with partners such as PSPA (Projet de Soins Planifié et Anticipé – a Walloon advance care planning initiative). There’s also room for exchange between colleagues from different regions, because learning from each other’s practice starts with understanding it.

Digital communication between healthcare professionals: where do we stand in 2026, what works today and where are we heading? We present innovative systems in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia and test them using realistic cases (e.g. a patient on holiday or care via out-of-hours services). You will take home key considerations for smooth cross-regional collaboration.