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Background: The Swedish Association of Health Professionals and the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care have developed a leadership programme with focus on person-centred ethics. The training programme is based on person-centred learning principles and has been running since 2015. Since 2022 the programme has been performed in a blended learning format where most of the workshops have been performed digitally. Due to a high demand from healthcare leaders to attend the programme, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the programme was revised to be provided digitally.    Aim: To explore programme managers’ and healthcare leaders’ experiences on feasibility when realising a person-centred leadership programme in a digital context. Methods: The programme include leaders across a large variety of healthcare settings in Sweden. It relies on a blended learning format and consists of six learning modules, out of which one is performed face-to-face and five in a digital setting. Each module consists of individual preparatory work (digital lectures, reading, and practical home assignments and diary-writing), followed up by workshops. For this abstract we have merged findings from a focus group study with programme managers (n=2) and individual interviews with leaders (n=13) participating in the programme performed in 2022. Preliminary results: Performing the program digitally had both pros and cons. We will present and reflect upon facilitators and challenges of performing the programme digitally and report on changes made to the programme design year 2023 to increase feasibility. Conclusion and implications: Providing the programme digitally increased the geographical reach, but it did not result in a higher rate of leaders completing the programme. Although some parts of the programme were feasible to perform digitally, the digital context was experienced as a barrier for person-centred learning in some modules. Our conclusion is therefore that at least two face-to-face meetings should be provided.