Working Party News

September, 2018

John Wynn-Jones writes : Our 15th World Rural Health Conference last April in Delhi seems such a long way now as we find ourselves preparing for another WONCA Conference, the 22nd WONCA World Conference which will be held in Seoul from October 17 to 21. Included are a list of rural themed presentations and workshops in Seoul.

September, 2018

Prof Val Wass updates us on the activities of the Working Party on Education including the challenges for the group, the preconference in Seoul and the latest open access article of interest from "Education for Primary Care"

September, 2018

The World Federation for Mental Health is focusing the 2018 WMHDAY campaign on Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World. Please join us with your activities on World Mental health Day ​

August, 2018

This has been another busy year for the WONCA Working Party on Rural practice. John Wynn-Jones reports on conferences including the 15th WONCA World rural health conference held in India; as well as policies and statements, the rural seeds movement, special initiatives, networking and communication as well as future thinking.

August, 2018

Dr Tane A Taylor, Chair, WP on Indigenous & Minority Groups Health Issues (WWPI&MGHI) chair reports: The activities outlined in this plan have been bubbling along, but can and should be enhanced.

August, 2018

Ilkka Kunnamo (Finland), chair of the Working Party on eHealth reports: Time has come for me to retire from the position as convenor of the Working Party and thank all colleagues who have been involved in its activities.

August, 2018

The annual WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC) meeting in 2017 was held from 26 August to 1.September in Lyon/France. The main topics were the international ICPC-3 Consortium founded for the development of a new version of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-3) under the lead of Kees van Boven at the University of Nijmegen/Netherlands and its relationship to WICC. Furthermore the WICC directly worked on the content of the future ICPC-3. Another important topic was the development of a primary care version (linearization) of ICD-11 in collaboration with WHO.

July, 2018

Prof Christos Lionis (Greece) writes: Rural primary health care research promotes excellence in clinical practice and has been shown to improve staff recruitment and retention. While progress has been made recently to support research excellence in rural health care in Australia, Canada, the USA and some European countries, research in rural primary health care settings has received insufficient attention worldwide.

July, 2018

Prof Christopher Dowrick, chair of Working Party for Mental Health tells us about the latest resource produced by a task group of the Working Party or use by family doctors : "Addressing the needs of patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)"

July, 2018

Kate Anteyi, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Women & Family Medicine (WWPWFM) reports on activities July 2017 – June 2018. The WWPWFM goals for the 2016-2018 biennial is to have a sustained impact in WONCA regions through expansion, networks and linkages, and address women’s health at primary care through family medicine perspective.