WONCA News

March, 2014

Dr William Wong is the convenor of the new WONCA Special Interest Group on Health Equity. Find out more.

March, 2014

WONCA CEO, Garth Manning, writes of meetings attended, upcoming WONCA conferences, direct membership (find out who is Direct member 001), and more.

March, 2014

John Wynn-Jones reports on his attendance at the Prince Mahidol conference in Thailand and the lessons learnt.

February, 2014

Amanda Howe's perspective on the recent VDGM forum where she delivered the keynote speech "We are not one - how health inequalities in Europe afflict healthcare, patients and healthcare professionals".

February, 2014

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Point-Of Care testing requests your participation in a survey of family doctors

February, 2014

On 13 February 2014, the worlds of academic general practice, community health and rural health lost an extraordinary contributor with the passing of Robert Hall.

February, 2014

La recolección de datos desde la atención primaria: difícil, peligrosa, ¡y definitivamente necesaria!

February, 2014

Difficult, dangerous, and definitely needed! Amanda discussed the British Government's plan to make routine, the collection of anonymised ‘patient level’ data (age, sex, locality, attendance, medical problems…)

February, 2014

The mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG), developed based on WHO recommendations, contains clinical protocols for management of priority conditions by non-specialist health care providers.

February, 2014

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board meeting which takes place every January and World Health Assembly in May in Geneva stand out as crucial events during the course of the year to mark the agenda for future WHO activities and bring together representatives from the 194 member states’ ministries of health as well as other stakeholders. WONCA as a non-governmental organisation in official relations with the WHO is invited to participate.