Working Party News

September, 2019

Prof Christopher Dowrick, chair of the Working Party on Mental Health reports: The aim of the working party is to enhance global equity of access to high quality primary mental health care. Our objectives are to improve internal structures; to offer mental health guidance for WONCA members; and to provide global leadership on primary mental health care.

September, 2019

Issam Shaarani, chair of the Working Party on Ethical Issues reports on activities in the past year.

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

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

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.

August, 2019

Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Chair, WONCA Working Party on Research writes on activities of the last year.

August, 2019

The WONCA World Rural health conference comes to Albuquerque in October. Please consider taking up our invitation to present your passion at the “Rattlesnake Pit” session on the Assembly Day of the World Rural Health Conference in Albuquerque, October 12th.

August, 2019

Manabu Saito, Director of the Rural Generalist Program in Japan, writes on a symposium held at WONCA Kyoto 2019 (in conjunction with the Japan Primary Care Association).

July, 2019

Scholarships are now available to help offset the cost of attendance for the 16th WONCA World Rural Health Conference Oct. 12-15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

July, 2019

Shelly B Rodrigues, Deputy Executive Vice President, California Academy of Family Physicians and Chris Larrison, Principal, Healthcare Performance Consulting Inc, report on workshops at the recent WONCA Asia Pacific region conference in Kyoto on improving care of patients with depression and anxiety.