WONCA News

October, 2015

On behalf of our colleagues across our region, WONCA Europe and the Turkish association of Family Doctors have published a statement on the refugee crisis

October, 2015

URGENT NOTICE: Abstracts for workshops, panels and symposia for the WONCA World conference coming to Rio next year close on February 1.

October, 2015

El cliché es, “si no se mide no se gestiona” – o simplemente puede no hacerse. Aunque existen numerosos riesgos asociados con querer medir cosas que no se pueden o no se deben medir, hay una cierta verdad en este dicho.

October, 2015

This was an interesting time to be in Iran, with the United Nations having recently announced a nuclear accord that could lead to the lifting of long-standing sanctions. I admit that I was a little nervous about visiting Iran, especially when told that I would have to undertake advanced security training through the United Nations. Once in Iran, I felt welcome and safe.

September, 2015

WONCA and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation are pleased to announce the release of the General Practitioner/ Family Practitioner Reasons for Encounter/ Health Issues (GP/FP) subset and the map from the GP/FP subset to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2).

September, 2015

The recently published WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for quality health care services for adolescents aims to assist policy-makers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services

September, 2015

Prof Amanda Howe is on holidays, so this month’s Policy Bite is written by guest author Dr is Luisa Pettigrew. Luisa is a member of WONCA Executive and our liaison person with the WHO. The cliché is that “if it is not measured it is not managed” - or simply may not be done. Whilst there are numerous pitfalls associated with wanting to measure things that cannot or should not be measured, there is also some underlying truth in this saying.

September, 2015

WONCA East Mediterranean region is holding its 2016 conference from March 17-19 in Dubai. Submission of abstracts is now open.

September, 2015

The WONCA World Special Interest Group on migrant care, international health and travel medicine will present two workshops at the coming WONCA Europe conference in Istnabul, on the health of refugee children and on migrant children. Other relevant program items are listed.

September, 2015

Ewen McPhee writes of an exchange of ideas between rural doctors from Queensland, Australia, and rural doctors in Japan, after a chance meeting at the WONCA rural conference in Dubrovnik.