Special Interest Group News

June, 2016

Greetings from the WONCA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Equity. For this edition, we take a glance at GPs at the Deep End, which has and continues to strive for health equity in the most deprived areas of Scotland. In Global Focus, we take a look at studies from Guatemala, Sweden to India.

April, 2016

During 2014, the WONCA Special Interest Group on Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) launched an online survey. The survey closes on June 30 - respond now!

January, 2016

Hello again, from the WONCA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Equity. The health equity group is still bustling with activity writes convenor William Wong.

November, 2015

We are proud to send you the first newsletter of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Family Violence.

November, 2015

Maria van den Muijsenbergh, convener of the WONCA special interest group on Migrant care, international health and travel medicine reports on activities in Istanbul and for the future.

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

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Complexities in Health will run three workshops and a meeting at this year’s WONCA Europe conference in Istanbul.

September, 2015

WONCA's new SIG on Health Equity reports: Welcome to the WONCA Special Interest Group on Health Equity news. In this edition we would like to share with you our excitement towards the upcoming WONCA Europe conference where we have been invited to host a Health Equity workshop. In addition to this, our convener shares with us some interesting and related experiences this summer.

August, 2015

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine (WONCA SIG C&CM ) provides a forum through which WONCA can lend its support to improving the quality of care of peoples of the world when they face some of life’s greatest challenges. General membership is open to all GP/FMDs. A workshop will be held during the WONCA Europe Conference in Istanbul (22-25 October 2015).

August, 2015

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Point of Care Testing (POCT) reports on its activities in the last six months for the WONCA annual report including its activities at the recent WONCA rural health conference in Dubrovnik