WONCA News

July, 2017

Goodfellow Gems are chosen by the Goodfellow Unit director Dr Bruce Arroll to be either practice changing or practice maintaining. The information is educational and not clinical advice. PEARLS are an independent product of the Cochrane primary care group and are meant for educational use and not to guide clinical care.

July, 2017

WONCA President, Amanda Howe provides her views on recent sad events in her country, the World Health Assembly attendace by a WONCA delegation and World Family Doctor Day.

July, 2017

This past week WONCA Europe held its annual conference in Prague. A photographic report is attached including the three minute conference video

July, 2017

Mon activité principale depuis ma dernière lettre a été d’assister à l’Assemblée mondiale de la santé auprès de l’OMS -préparation, participation puis nombreuses possibilités d’action à suivre.

July, 2017

Entre las muchas actividades a las que he asistido desde la última vez que escribí he asistido a la Asamblea de la Organización Mundial de la Salud – en una primera fase preparándola, mientras duró participando en muchas actividades, y después, aprovechando las oportunidades y acciones que provocará.

July, 2017

Prof Mehmet Ungan, WONCA Europe President Elect, of Turkey, writes to colleagues asking them to consider signing the #withrefugees petition as June 20, was World Refugee Day.

June, 2017

The WONCA Rural Africa group (WoRA) was introduced at the 14th WONCA Rural Assembly in Cairns Australia and was unanimously accepted. WoRA will be launched on the 18 August 2017 during the 5th WONCA Africa region conference in Pretoria and in India during 15th Rural WONCA conference 2018.

June, 2017

Uno de los temas recurrentes ante el que se enfrentan los responsables políticos y de los gobiernos es la solicitud constante de evidencias entre la formación de más médicos de familia y el valor añadido para el sistema y sus costes económico-efectivos, es decir, que los políticos demuestren que la inversión en formación está justificada.

June, 2017

Dr Neil Arya and colleagues in Canada have created a new webpage on family medicine training and practice worldwide. They have done this as a ‘Wiki’ where we can all upload relevant data:

June, 2017

The WONCA CEO tells of the recent WHO World Health Assembly and the activities of our WONCA delegation, the Global Forum for human resources for health, the Alma Ata declaration 40 years on, and a visit to the WONCA Secretariat in Bangkok by former manager Yvonne Chung