OP0283-PARE HELLENIC LEAGUE’S AGAINST RHEUMATISM’S SCHOOL OF HEALTH EDUCATION

Background The more time healthcare professionals spend with patients the better health outcomes become. Therefore, education seems to play a crucial role for quality of life not only but also care costs and future cost projections that depend on everyone. Objectives Aim School Health Education is give opportunity participants familiarize themselves frequently used terminology in everyday clinical practice, become accustomed using common medical language when describing their symptoms doctors so they will have ground. Basic goal this every patient understand bit about concepts such as medications, adverse events, pharmacovigilance etc. Methods Interactive live approximately 2hour duration, already take place 15 cities Greece. In year 2020 COVID restrictions did allow events be organized. project start again during 2023. Speakers were: rheumatologists, general physicians, anesthesiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, gynecologists, pharmacologists others. Results Over 1800 patients, caregivers, members public, stakeholders, local authorities, professional others participated events. Handouts printed material from HELAR/ELEANA were given well an evaluation form complete. generated lot press locally nationally, 4 conferences, 25 releases, 18 TV interviews 10 radio interviews. Conclusion Publicity participation showed quite important communities. Since pandemic there has been shift towards public issues creating unique HELAR/ELEANA’s adapted once available living RMD. This new version could either virtual or many caregivers able attend. Acknowledgements Hellenic League Against Rheumatism grateful Dimitrios Kouvelas, MD, BPharm, PhD, Professor Pharmacology Clinical Pharmacology, Head Dept Medicine, Aristotle University Thessaloniki his precious scientific contribution, implementation being main speaker voluntarily. was awarded bronze prize by Care Business Awards 2019. Disclosure Interests KATY ANTONOPOULOU: None declared, ATHANASIA PAPPA: DIMITRIOS KOUVELAS Consultant of: DEMO, STILVI, Nadia Malliou: Katerina Tsekoura: MACHI SALAMALIKI: EVANGELIA OIKONOMOULA: KATERINA ROUSTA: declared.