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This presentation aims to share how the Metro South Health (MSH) Advance Care Planning (ACP) Service was successful in increasing engagement with MSH primary care settings and provide support to increase uptake of ACP outside of the traditional hospital setting. It describes the practical and effective strategies that were used to overcome known challenges of engagement between Hospital and Health Services and the General Practice (GP) setting.ACP and health care discussions should ideally be initiated when an individual is medically stable and in a comfortable, familiar environment. General practice is an ideal place to initiate ACP conversations, due to the existing trust, knowledge and relationship between patients and their doctors. However, with no dedicated Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) item for ACP, the opportunities for routine ACP conversations during consultations are limited. ACP can be supported by Medicare billing during consultation in both chronic disease care plan and 75+ health assessments, however, these consultations may involve other conversations and examinations which can limit time available to explore ACP.The MSH ACP Service aims to positively impact ACP uptake and engagement in the greater community to reduce the burden on the acute care settings and in 2023, commenced community ACP clinics to provide free appointments in community health settings with specialist ACP nurses. Engagement with General Practice was identified as one the strategies to support the utilisation of the in the MSH catchment.General Practice can be oversubscribed with information to support primary care and be challenging to engage with. Initial strategies to engage and share MSH ACP information by email and phone call had limited success. MSH ACP team chose to apply the ‘drop in’ method to practice visits, a known effective strategy based on feedback from the MSH General Practice Liaison Officer (GPLO) experience.In a planned engagement strategy, the community ACP CNC visited a total of 195 practices over a six-week period. These visits targeted the practice manager or practice nurse and provided information packs regarding ACP and a laminated ACP clinic poster for display in the waiting room. Resulting referrals to MSH ACP Clinics by MSH General Practitioners almost doubled in the quarter following this strategy.The ‘drop in’ approach has shown to be a successful and simple to apply strategy to engage with primary care to enhance collaboration, influence a shared engagement with ACP, and build collaborative approaches across healthcare settings.