WONCA News

April, 2017

Val Wass, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education summarises the group's planned activities at the next two WONCA conferences - the world rural conference in Cairns in late April, and WONCA Europe in Prague in late June.

April, 2017

Applications are sought for this year's Dr Atai Anne Deborah Omoruto Scholarship Award for an African woman to attend the 2017 WONCA Africa conference in Pretoria.

April, 2017

Conservo unos recuerdos muy intensos acerca del Congreso de China que ha sido impresionante y que me animan un poco - acabo de asistir al encuentro de la organización miembro de WONCA llamada Cross Straits (Entre Estrechos) en Xiamen, que ha reunido a más de 2.000 delegados. Hace dos semanas me estuve en un encuentro de la Región Mediterránea Oriental en Abu Dhabi, que será también la sede del Congreso de WONCA Mundial del próximo 2020. Este fue un encuentro fantástico.

April, 2017

Il me reste les souvenirs de la conférence extraordinaire de Chine pour me remonter le moral -je viens d’assister, à Xiamen, à la réunion de l’organisation membre de Cross Straits qui comptait plus de 2000 délégués et a attiré de nombreux conférenciers au niveau ministériel. Il y a deux semaines, j'étais à notre réunion régionale de Méditerranée orientale à Abu Dhabi où aura lieu la conférence mondiale de 2020. La réunion d’Abu Dhabi était également excellente,

April, 2017

WONCA CEO, Garth Manning, reports on this year's coming WONCA conferences. It is also World Family Doctor Day on May 19 and this year a theme you may like to use is "depression". The WHO has a number of useful resources for this theme.

April, 2017

I have just attended the Cross Straits member organisation meeting in Xiamen, which had more than 2000 delegates and attracted a number of ministerial level keynote speakers. Two weeks ago I was at our Eastern Mediterranean regional meeting in Abu Dhabi, which will also host the global conference in 2020. This was also a wonderful meeting.

March, 2017

This month's guest policy bite comes from the Robert Graham Center, in the USA. The chosen topic is: Valuing, Measuring & Paying for Primary Care’s Foundations: Comprehensiveness, Continuity, & Coordination.

March, 2017

Prof Amanda Howe and Dr Jamie Murdoch, University of East Anglia write: the challenge for primary care services to negotiate tensions between meeting patients’ needs effectively and managing demand for care is a global problem. Rising life expectancy and improved options to help diagnosis and treatment mean that doctors both in community and hospital settings have to manage increasingly complex patients with multi-morbidities.

March, 2017

WONCA Europe comes to Prague from June 28 - July 1, 2017. The latest news from the Scientific Committee chair and about the exciting WONCA Europe open meeting chaired by Job Metsemakers with Han Kluge from WHO.

March, 2017

In recent weeks a story on the Primary Care crisis in Northern Ireland written by our colleague Michael Smyth has stimulated enormous discussion on the WONCA Working Party on Rural practice google group. If you are not a member, find out what all the fuss is about as Michael writes for WONCA News.