WONCA News

December, 2020

At the end of this month, Dr Garth Manning retires as WONCA CEO. This collection of photos reflects on his term as CEO 2012-2020.

December, 2020

Final details are available including on speakers and programme for the European Conference of Family Doctors - DEGAM Annual Congress 2020 which is a virtual conference on December 16 - 19, 2020.

December, 2020

The completely modernised International Classification for Primary Care (ICPC) wiil be launched on December 15 and be available without cost, online at www.icpc-3.info, and includes supporting information and training material.

December, 2020

2020年快将结束，我们比以往任何时刻更感受到全面及持续的基层医疗系统的重要性。随着去年全球倾力对抗前所未知的冠状病毒，各国在履行2018年《阿斯塔纳宣言》承诺时似乎欠缺了一些动力。

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.