WONCA News

August, 2020

A medida que se continúan sucediendo las últimas oleadas de la pandemia de COVID-19 en todo el mundo, muchos profesionales están investigando acerca de su origen, las condiciones para frenar su propagación, los tratamientos, los impactos a largo plazo en la salud y una gran variedad de todos los problemas relacionados.

August, 2020

随着最新一波的新冠肺炎(COVID – 19) 全球大流行继续在世界各地蔓延，各界专业人员正埋首各样的研究，包括病毒来源、传播、治疗、对健康的长期影响，以及其他相关的问题。医学期刊收到大量来自各方的文章和研究项目

August, 2020

World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) 2020 will be observed across the world on 17 September. WHO will be launching a global campaign for World Patient Safety Day 2020 to emphasize the importance of health worker safety as a priority for patient safety.

August, 2020

Guidelines.co.uk, is offering our members discounted access to over 300 clinical guideline summaries online

August, 2020

Prof Val Wass, Chair WONCA Working Party on Education writes on the latest open access items in Education for Primary Care.

August, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones writes on Courage. During this dreadful pandemic there have been many acts of courage and fortitude shown by health care workers. Despite the personal risks, many of you have continued to practice, often without adequate PPE, knowing that you and sometimes your loved ones are at risk.

August, 2020

Please join us for the Virtual AfroPHC Workshop to be held 4-7pm over three days 9th-11th September 2020. The theme is “Building Teamwork for PHC in Africa”. It is intended to be a truly interactive African experience that is free and open to anyone interested in building PHC in Africa. Please see more details and register for the AfroPHC Virtual Workshop.

August, 2020

The Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine (Centre) at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) invites you to participate at the Virtual 2020 Family Medicine Forum taking place Wednesday, November 4 to Saturday, November 7, 2020.

August, 2020

The following is a short version of this report to be published in the 2020 WONCA Annual report. WHO liaison person, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi writes:

July, 2020

By the time you read this column most of you will know that we have had to take the decision to postpone our World Council and conference planned for Abu Dhabi in November, to be hosted by the Emirates Medical Association. It was really heartening and very important for us to receive speedy feedback from the Member Organisations that they were happy to postpone this year’s planned World Council and conference until 2021.