WONCA News

September, 2019

Pramendra Prasad Gupta, chair of the Working Party on e-Health reports: The aim of the working party is to identify the needs of patients and professionals to ensure relevant patient-focused information and health IT tools are available to all.

September, 2019

Siguiendo desde el exitoso Congreso de WONCA África, el recientemente creado sistema AfroPHC de Atención Primaria ha representado un “momentum” y continúa su proceso de crecimiento día a día.

September, 2019

​Amanda Howe, WONCA Immediate Past President, comes to the end of six years on WONCA Executive this coming month. WONCA thanks her for the huge voluntary commitment this represents. Here she reflects on this period of her life.

September, 2019

Dr Sonia Tsukagoshi, the new Vasco da Gama Movement (VdGM) Liaison Officer on WONCA Europe Executive Board , the British-Japanese family medicine physician, was interviewed recently by Pere Vilanova of semFYC.

September, 2019

Donald Li, WONCA President, was recently interviewed by semFYC communications Pere Vilanova. The interview is an edited version of the original Spanish.

September, 2019

In "Education for Primary Care", we offer free access this month to “Spiritual care training and the GP curriculum: where to now?” Appleby et al.

September, 2019

​The attached statement on Equity was submitted by Mehmet Ungan, WONCA Europe President, on behalf of WONCA Europe, for WHO Europe RC69: "Promoting Equıty for a Better Quality of Health Care for All Europeans"

September, 2019

With equity at the heart of the conference, WONCA 2020 promises to deliver an inspiring and diverse programme of plenary sessions, panel discussions, skills workshops and debates which explore the theme of: Family Medicine - leading the way towards an advanced world of equity, quality and compassion.

September, 2019

More Goodfellow Unit GEMS have been loaded this month. What is a GEM? 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. ©The Goodfellow Unit, Auckland, New Zealand.

September, 2019

We encourage all family doctors in the world to celebrate together on September 17, 2019, World Patient Safety Day. We all take part to build a safer health system.