Working Party News

June, 2020

Prof Chris Dowrick, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health, writes on some resources in the time of COVID-19 in his latest newsletter to colleagues.

June, 2020

WONCA's Working Party on Research through Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Bob Mash have produced a book on "How to do Primary Care Research". A review of this book has been published and can be found online.

June, 2020

This multinational survey aimed to understand characteristics and strategies employed by different countries to deal with COVID-19 from a PHC perspective to determine: factors most associated with national mortality rates during the pandemic period to date, and lessons to better address both current and future pandemics

June, 2020

Prof Val Wass, Chair WONCA Working Party on Education writes on the latest open access item in Education for Primary Care: from Felicity Goodyear-Smith "Provision of e-learning programmes to replace undergraduate medical students’ clinical general practice attachments during COVID-19 stand-down"

May, 2020

WONCA has launched a webinar series on COVID-19. Watch previous webinars online. Find out how to join the next WONCA webinar on Research coming on Sunday, 31 May at 10:00am UTC.

May, 2020

The WONCA Working Party on Education thanks WONCA World for hosting a Working Party on Education webinar. It provided an international platform to explore the impact of COVID-19 on Education and Training.

April, 2020

Prof Bruce Arroll has now made a high quality film on the subject - Depression -an evidence based first consultation"

April, 2020

世界家庭医生组织（WONCA）一直支持不同国家、文化地域的家庭医生与全科医生，旨力促使所有人能享有安全可达及优质的医疗服务

April, 2020

No method to evaluate digital health solutions through the eyes of family doctors existed and therefore WONCA, supported by its Working Party on eHealth, decided to develop a dedicated assessment framework. This framework includes 11 domains of evaluation: ranging from user aspects to healthcare system and ethical matters.

April, 2020

Felicity Goodyear-Smith writes: We want to know how prepared you think your country was to deal with COVID-19, how your country responded, the nature of your primary health care system, and changes that have been made in fighting this pandemic. We want to see how these factors might influence the rate and pattern of incidence and deaths.