WONCA News

August, 2018

Victor Ng, SIG convenor writes: Below are a few examples of the great work of our WONCA SIG EM members in various WONCA regions. While this is far from an exhaustive list, it shows the commitment of our members to promote acute and emergency medicine to the rest of our family medicine colleagues. We appreciate and are thankful for their service to our discipline.

August, 2018

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Ageing and Health has been reconvened in this 12 months. New convenor, Prof Dimity Pond (Australia) reports: The group has been busy producing a consensus statement about the importance of strengthening family medicine in the face of the increasing numbers of elderly people throughout the countries of the world.

August, 2018

Trabajando a escala - como médicos y médicas de familia necesitamos pensar tanto a nivel pequeño como a nivel más grande – y no siempre debemos sentir que debemos avanzar nosotros solos. Algunos de los modelos en asistencia moderna ofrecen un apoyo efectivo y una mayor capacitación, mientras mantenemos como prioridad la cara humana de la Medicina de Familia.

August, 2018

Dr Tane A Taylor, Chair, WP on Indigenous & Minority Groups Health Issues (WWPI&MGHI) chair reports: The activities outlined in this plan have been bubbling along, but can and should be enhanced.

August, 2018

Ilkka Kunnamo (Finland), chair of the Working Party on eHealth reports: Time has come for me to retire from the position as convenor of the Working Party and thank all colleagues who have been involved in its activities.

August, 2018

The annual WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC) meeting in 2017 was held from 26 August to 1.September in Lyon/France. The main topics were the international ICPC-3 Consortium founded for the development of a new version of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-3) under the lead of Kees van Boven at the University of Nijmegen/Netherlands and its relationship to WICC. Furthermore the WICC directly worked on the content of the future ICPC-3. Another important topic was the development of a primary care version (linearization) of ICD-11 in collaboration with WHO.

August, 2018

The WONCA South Asia region conference will be held from November 22-24, 2019, in Lahore, Karachi, Pakistan. The theme is "Primary Care- complete health care". The conference is hosted by the Pakistan Society of Family Physicians.

August, 2018

This is the first announcement in WONCA News about the WONCA Asia Pacific region conference coming in 2019 to Kyoto, Japan. The conference will be held from May 15-18, 2019

August, 2018

We continue to recruit and welcome new members from all WONCA regions who wish to work together to strengthen the discipline of Family Medicine with a special interest on Workers Health. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Alma Declaration, Family Doctors must emphasize our passion for Primary Care,

August, 2018

As of 24 April 2018, there are 113 members in the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Global Point-of- Care Testing (POCT), comprising 11 Executive Members and 102 General Members; these members represent 44 different countries and all seven WONCA regions.