WONCA News

November, 2017

WONCA has had a Working Party on Rural Practice for many years. Their vision is “health for all rural people around the world”, and, as for WONCA as a whole, one of the key aims of their advocacy is to ensure governments recognise the importance of family medicine and its rural and remote workforce. It is therefore a source of celebration that Prof Paul Worley, a member of the WONCA Rural Working Party, has been appointed as the first Rural Health Commissioner of Australia

November, 2017

Desde hace muchos años, WONCA tiene un Grupo de Trabajo en Medicina Rural, y este es muy activo – cada año organiza un Congreso mundial, mantiene intensas comunicaciones y presencia en las redes sociales, también tiene una relación muy especial con los Movimientos de Jóvenes Médicos de Familia (Rural Seeds), y ofrece recursos como los recogidos en la Guía Educacional de Medicina Rural. Su lema es el de “salud para la población de los medios rurales en todo el mundo”. Es por esa razón que debemos celebrar el hecho de que el Profesor Paul Worley, miembro del Grupo de Trabajo en Medicina Rural, ha sido elegido como el Primer Comisario de Salud Rural de Australia.

November, 2017

Prof Christopher Dowrick, Chair of WONCA Working Party on Mental Health, reports: Members of our working party continue to be busy, all round the world. In the Asia-Pacific region, Weng Chin has successful launched our new guidance on Non-drug interventions for common mental health problems during the Pattaya conference this week. I am delighted with this document, and commend it to you.

November, 2017

WONCA Europe conference May 24-27,2018 Krakow, Poland

November, 2017

Paul Worley has just been announced as the first Rural Health Commissioner of Australia. He is not only the first person in Australia to hold this position, but he is probably the first person anywhere in the world to hold such an important, high level government post.

November, 2017

launched at the WONCA Asia Pacific Region Conference this week: "Family doctors’ role in providing non-drug interventions (NDIs) for common mental health disorders in primary care" is a new resource produced by the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health

November, 2017

Prof Val Wass, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education reports on the free journal article of the month.

November, 2017

The Sixty-Eighth Session of the Regional Office for the WHO Western Pacific (WPRO) 68th Regional Committee was held in Brisbane, Australia 9–13 October 2017. WONCA was repesented by WONCA Executive member Dr Karen Flegg. WONCA submitted four written statements.

November, 2017

WONCA EMR delivered the following statement to the 64th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean held in Islamabad - Pakistan, from 9-12 October 2017

October, 2017

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced his senior leadership team.