WONCA News

December, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. During the COVID-19 crisis he has been writing a daily 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. As a final item for 2020 we publish our hopes for 2021 - "Health and Wellbeing" - written by John in September.

December, 2020

Currently, we are redesigning WONCA Europe 2021 Virtual Conference as we will not be able to organise a fully physical conference in Amsterdam. Yet, we really would like to achieve the best conference experience possible in these uncertain COVID-19 times.

November, 2020

Dr Anna Stavdal, WONCA President-elect, recently represented family medicine at the WHO Pan-European Commission which aims to position health at the top of the political agenda within the Sustainable Development Goals, and to strengthen the resilience of health and social care systems in the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region.

November, 2020

This month our Young Doctors provide updates on activities over the past few months. - activities which continue despite COVID-19 interrupting the WONCA conference programme.

November, 2020

I trust you are all staying well, despite the resurgence of the pandemic in many parts of the world. The results of the turbulent US elections remind us that change is possible. As Jill Benson told us during our recent webinar: “We need to stay hopeful, because we know that hopelessness is more infectious that COVID-19”.

November, 2020

The ’30 by 2030’ campaign calls for development partners explicitly to assign 30% of their health funds towards building and improving primary care systems, to deliver integrated, comprehensive primary care services by 2030.

November, 2020

Décembre 2020 marque la fin d'une ère pour WONCA - et le début d'une nouvelle ère. À la fin du mois, Garth Manning prendra sa retraite en tant que PDG de WONCA après plus de huit ans en poste. J'ai travaillé avec Garth tout au long de cette période et j'ai fait partie du jury qui l'avait nommé.

November, 2020

Diciembre de 2020 marca el final de una era para WONCA y el comienzo de una nueva era. A fin de mes, Garth Manning se jubilará como CEO de WONCA después de más de ocho años en el cargo. He trabajado con Garth durante todo ese tiempo y estuve en el ejecutivo que lo nombró. El primer día de Garth en el cargo fue el primer día de una reunión ejecutiva de WONCA de tres días, en Londres, en 2012.

November, 2020

2020年12月标志着WONCA一个时代的结束， 亦是新时代的开始。首席执行官Garth Manning将于本月底退休，离开任职八年多的岗位。我是任命Garth的小组成员，一直与他并肩作战。Garth在2012年上任首天，参与了于伦敦举行为期三天的执行委员会会议，便随即着手这艰巨的工作 ！

November, 2020

The new WHF position paper – The Case for the Digital Transformation of Circulatory Health – explores how digital innovation can improve healthcare for people with circulatory diseases