WONCA News

July, 2015

I was in Romania in June to deliver the opening address at the 2015 World Psychiatric Association Congress. The visit provided me with the opportunity to meet with Sandra Alexiu and other family medicine colleagues in Romania and to discuss some of the challenges facing family medicine and the delivery of universal health coverage.

July, 2015

The CEO discusses advance planning for the 2016 WONCA World conference and committee meetings in Rio, and notes we still have WONCA Europe in Istanbul to come this year.

July, 2015

El pasado junio estuve en Rumaníapara pronunciar el discurso de bienvenida del Congreso de 2015 de la Asociación Mundial de Psiquiatría. La visita me dio la oportunidad de conocer a Sandra Alexiu y a otros colegas médicos de familia en el país y pudimos conversar sobre los retos de la medicina de familia y la cobertura sanitaria universal.

July, 2015

I have recently been a member of an independent ‘Commission’ to make recommendations about the primary care workforce in England - very interesting to put one’s own ideas to scrutiny by equally intelligent and critical peers from other backgrounds.

July, 2015

All WONCA members and member organizations are urged to respond to the online public consultation towards the development of a Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health by 31 August.

July, 2015

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has recently launched a new membership grade, International Affiliate membership.

July, 2015

Prof Antoinette Perera, President of the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka is interviewed by the WONCA Editor about her hopes for the conference. Antoinette is also a WONCA Featured doctor this month.

July, 2015

This month Chloé Perdrix, the young French GP travelling through South Asia write on her travels in India and Kyrgystan

July, 2015

WONCA News has begun a regular feature on the subject of Occupational Health. Peter Buijs & Frank van Dijk are the promotors and main authors. IIn this edition, they tell about two good practices, where PHC is paying more attention to work issues, coming from two newly industrialized countries: China and Thailand.

July, 2015

I am a middle aged Italian family doctor who lives and works in a rural village in Southern Italy. I work in a solo doctor practice and my surgery is in a wing of my own house. This is quite unusual and considered barely legal nowadays, but is tolerated as I started my practice long ago.