WONCA News

May, 2015

Recently, Polaris took advantage of the chance to collaborate in the planning, leading, and development of a Family Medicine preconforence with our international colleagues in Montevideo, Uruguay. This meeting was a collaboration between three World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) regional Young Doctor Movements (YDMs): Waynakay (Iberoamericana Region), Polaris (North America Region) and the Vasco da Gama Movement (Europe Region).

May, 2015

The WONCA family has been greatly saddened this weekend by the passing of two of its leaders, Prof Janko Kersnik, WONCA Europe Secretary and Dr David Game, past president of WONCA. WONCA sends its deepest condolences to the families of both men on behalf of the worldwide WONCA family.

May, 2015

WONCA President, Prof Michael Kidd says "thank you" to all family doctors around the world in honour of World Family Doctor Day, May 19.

May, 2015

The WONCA CEO reports from the Africa region conference in Accra on recent travels to Dubrovnik and Dubai. He also reminds us that Family Doctor Day comes on May 19 and how to help our colleagues in Nepal.

May, 2015

2015 es un año clave en la salud mundial, pues los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio llegan a su fin. La Naciones Unidas han desarrollado los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y las metas, u ODS, que guiarán la agenda mundial de desarrollo post-2015.

May, 2015

An abridged letter from Prof Gabby Ivbijaro on the outcomes of the recent conference held in Lille France 28-30 April 2015 where WONCA was represented by Job Metsemakers, Nabil Kurashi and Luis Galvez.

May, 2015

Today my country goes to the polls. During the last government, we had a major health service reform, with a new ‘market’ model where more services could be contracted with private providers; family medicine doctors were tasked to manage the budget to buy services from the hospital and referral centres: and large scale reorganisation occurred, within the context of a taxation funded public health service

May, 2015

The WONCA Working Party on Informatics has changed its name to WONCA Working Party on eHealth (WWPEH). The new name reflects the wider scope of electronic tools, services and electronic health record functionalities.

May, 2015

As recently as January 2015, WONCA Executive approved the formation of a new WONCA Special Interest Group on Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine. Convenor, Rich Withnall, has shared this message about the Nepal disaster and invited interested family doctors to join the new group.

May, 2015

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice met over two days before the beginning of the WONCA World Rural Health Conference in Dubrovnik in April 2015. People from all over the world, movers and shakers in rural health education, research and in health service provision, many jobbing doctors, trainees and students took part in two meetings