WONCA News

May, 2016

May 19. 2016 - World Family Doctor Day. WONCA President, Prof Michael Kidd sends greetings to all colleagues thanking them work they do throughout the year.

April, 2016

World Family Doctor Day is fast approaching. What is your WONCA Member Organization doing on May 19? We already have some proposals for the day from Portugal, the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), and Bangladesh.

April, 2016

This month I want to tell you a little of the recent WONCA Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) conference in Dubai and also provide some feedback on the latest WONCA Executive meeting in Abu Dhabi on 20th and 21st March.

April, 2016

I was in Costa Rica to participate in the 6th Iberoamericana Family and Community Medicine Summit (Cumbre in Spanish), hosted in the capital city, San José, by the Association of Family and Community Medicine of Costa Rica, and our WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF Region, which includes the Spanish speaking nations of Central and South America, as well as Brazil, Portugal and Spain

April, 2016

WONCA has provided a submission to the Commission through the recent public call for contributions issued by the Expert Group of the Commission, and Professor Ruth Wilson (WONCA President North America region) participated in a face-to-face consultation with health professional organisations on 11th April in Geneva.

April, 2016

WHO has just published the document “Communicating radiation risks in paediatric imaging: Information to support health care discussions about benefit and risk”. This document is intended to be a tool for health care providers to communicate about risks associated with paediatric imaging procedures.

April, 2016

​A global stakeholder meeting seeking to shape a global agenda on measurement for improvement in primary health care (PHC) took place over 6th-8th April 2016 at WHO headquarters in Geneva.

April, 2016

We are delighted to present the first edition of the ”programme at a glance” for WONCA Europe 2016. We received a record-large number of session proposals and abstracts. Based on external reviews and a thorough assessment by the energetic Scientific Committee, we are proud of the result.

April, 2016

WONCA CEO, Dr Garth Manning has recently been in South America preparing for the coming WONCA world conference in Rio. He provides this summary of WHO information on the Zika virus.

April, 2016

During 2014, the WONCA Special Interest Group on Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) launched an online survey. The survey closes on June 30 - respond now!