WONCA News

December, 2018

December might be holiday season for some but not for WONCA! We have been busier than ever. After the Astana conference, we have continued to liaise closely with WHO to review our engagement with them, and to develop further collaborations on a range of issues. There has been significant progress in terms of recognition of the importance of family medicine to achieve the goal of Universal Health Coverage.

December, 2018

Greetings to all WONCA members from the WONCA Secretariat in Bangkok. We wish all members a very happy and successful 2019, and we hope to meet as many of you as possible at WONCA events throughout the year.

December, 2018

Seasons greetings from the 24th WONCA Europe Conference that will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia on June 26 - 29, 2019. Please note that early bird registration is closing January 6 and abstract submission in early January.

December, 2018

Prof Nobu Ban writes: The venue of the WONCA Asia Pacific region conference in 2019 is Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is most well known in Japanese history as being the former Imperial capital of Japan, for more than one thousand years, as well as a major part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. Kyoto attracts many people due to its natural beauty and cultural heritage.

December, 2018

Dr Gobith Ratnasingam, a young family doctor and council member of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice presents a report of a model for primary care which is being implemented in a rural part of Sri Lanka called “Community-Oriented Primary Care”.

December, 2018

Dr Jana Bendová, member of the Scientific Committee for the coming WONCA Europe conference in Bratislava, answers questions about general practice in the Slovak Republic. She is a GP and chief expert for general medicine at the Ministry of Health.

December, 2018

Prof Chris Dowrick, Chair of WONCA Working Party on Mental Health writes: it has been an eventful and highly productive year for our working party. Congratulations to three members of our working party who have achieved important awards: Sonia Roache-Barker (Trinidad & Tobago), Gabby Ivbijaro (UK), Shimnaz Nazeer (Qatar) ​

November, 2018

Durante mi inauguración como Presidente prometí, entre otras cosas, continuar defendiendo la Medicina de Familia como un elemento esencial para conseguir la Cobertura Universal de Salud y un sistema sanitario coste-efectivo fuerte. La Declaración de Astana dejó muy claro que todavía queda mucho trabajo por hacer.

November, 2018

It is with great pleasure that the WHO GCM/NCD Secretariat​ has announced that the Knowledge Action Portal has officially launched. This is a community driven platform for NCD information, interaction and inspiration.

November, 2018

WONCA SIG on Family Violence co-conveners Kelsey Hegarty and Hagit Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler report on activities of the group held recently at the WONCA world conference in Seoul.