WONCA Working Party: Quality & Safety

Dr Oana Bulilete (Spain)

Email Chair

Team Leadership

• José María Valderas (Singapore) – Chair of the Working Party on Quality and Safety and Executive Committee Member
• Oana Bulilete (Spain) – Secretary and Executive Committee Member
• Mercy Wanjala (Kenya) – Executive Committee Member
• Leonardo Graever (Brazil) – Executive Committee Member
• María Pilar Astier Peña (Spain) – Immediate Past Chair and Executive Committee Member
• Andrée Rochefort (Ireland) – EquIP Liaison and Executive Committee Member
• Sky Koh (Singapore) – Executive Committee Member
• José Miguel Bueno Ortiz (Spain) – Executive Committee Member

The World WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety in Family Medicine will support family doctors (family physicians/general practitioners) around the world in their efforts to review systematically and improve continuously the quality of health care they provide in a safe environment as follows:

Statement of principles of the WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety in Family Medicine

1. To provide quality and safety tools to all healthcare providers with regard to the structures of environment, the care processes and outcomes of health,
2. To provide more educational activities for residents and general practitioners on quality improvement and safety in and at regional and research meetings,
3. To share information on quality and safety improvement programs between our countries,
4. To identify patient based indicators to include clinical, organisational and patient satisfaction to measure quality and safety of care,
5. To develop a repository of programs in WONCA to make available a continent based platform to bench mark programs from different countries.

Prague Statement 2013

WHO decade for Patient Safety group photo- February 2020.
Documents related to WHO Global Consultation - A Decade of Patient Safety 2020-2030, are available here.


The WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety in Family Medicine(WWPQSFM) will:

• Establish across the world, regional networks of family doctors interested in quality safety in family medicine.
• Facilitate the exchange of ideas through conferences, reports, communication and through collaborative research,
• Increase the capacity of those involved in quality and safety in healthcare,
• Develop a leadership for quality and safety in family medicine;
• Provide mutual support within the regions;
• Serve as a resource for concepts and methodologies for safety and quality in family medicine, such as principles of guidelines development, patient outcomes measures, practice assessment tools, or partnerships with patients for quality in health care; and
• Conduct education and other sessions at strategic regional and international WONCA conferences.