WONCA News

September, 2015

WONCA and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation are pleased to announce the release of the General Practitioner/ Family Practitioner Reasons for Encounter/ Health Issues (GP/FP) subset and the map from the GP/FP subset to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2).

September, 2015

The recently published WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for quality health care services for adolescents aims to assist policy-makers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services

September, 2015

Prof Amanda Howe is on holidays, so this month’s Policy Bite is written by guest author Dr is Luisa Pettigrew. Luisa is a member of WONCA Executive and our liaison person with the WHO. The cliché is that “if it is not measured it is not managed” - or simply may not be done. Whilst there are numerous pitfalls associated with wanting to measure things that cannot or should not be measured, there is also some underlying truth in this saying.

September, 2015

WONCA East Mediterranean region is holding its 2016 conference from March 17-19 in Dubai. Submission of abstracts is now open.

September, 2015

The WONCA World Special Interest Group on migrant care, international health and travel medicine will present two workshops at the coming WONCA Europe conference in Istnabul, on the health of refugee children and on migrant children. Other relevant program items are listed.

September, 2015

Ewen McPhee writes of an exchange of ideas between rural doctors from Queensland, Australia, and rural doctors in Japan, after a chance meeting at the WONCA rural conference in Dubrovnik.

September, 2015

It is with great pride that the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) releases its latest resource: Fundamental Teaching Activities in Family Medicine™: A Framework for Faculty Development (FTA Framework).

September, 2015

WONCA Europe conference is coming soon to Istanbul Download the full program, register for courses, meet the speakers.

September, 2015

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Complexities in Health will run three workshops and a meeting at this year’s WONCA Europe conference in Istanbul.

September, 2015

WONCA truly is a global organization, representing over 500,000 members in more than 140 countries and territories in all continents. This month's report is on representation on the global stage.