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Collaborative multidisciplinary primary care teams: sharing experiences across Europe

ThursdayJuly 2nd8:00 - 9:00242 B

David HALATA, Pawel ŻUK, Joyce KENKRE and Katerina JAVORSKA

Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are increasingly essential to delivering accessible and high-quality primary care, particularly in rural and underserved areas facing workforce shortages, fragmentation of services and rising multimorbidity. Across Europe, MDTs have developed through diverse organisational and funding models. However, without structured planning and alignment with population needs, MDTs may inadvertently reinforce inequalities or reduce continuity of care. There is a need for shared learning on how MDTs are organised, how roles are allocated, and which approaches support effective, equitable and sustainable team-based care. A key element of these innovations is the shift of tasks from physicians to non-medical healthcare.By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to: – Describe the role of MDTs in primary care, especially in rural and underserved regions. – Identify structural and workforce challenges influencing MDT development. – Evaluate different MDT models across Europe. – Assess their impact on access, quality and efficiency – Discuss adapting MDTs to population needs for effective skill-mix. – Recognise common barriers and enabling factors influencing effective team implementation.Presenters will introduce evidence-based MDT concepts, focusing on task substitution vs supplementation, collaboration vs coordination, and population-need assessment. Most of the workshop will involve participants from different European regions sharing experiences of MDTs in primary care. A final plenary discussion will synthesise insights and extract transferable principles for practice. Workshop schedule 20 min: Introduction, conceptual framework, European MDT examples, interactive polling. 30 min: Small-group work on case vignettes: role mapping, skill-mix redesign and barrier analysis. 10 min: Plenary synthesis and formulation of practical take-home principles.Participants will be able to articulate core principles for MDT design, ccompare organisational models and identify factors influencing implementation, especially in rural and underserved areas. They will gain practical tools to align MDT composition with local population needs and support workforce planning, service development and integrated care delivery.MDTs are central to building resilient, equitable primary care systems. This workshop will share diverse European experiences and equip participants with evidence-informed, transferable strategies for developing effective, patient-centred and sustainable multidisciplinary teams.