Working Party News

September, 2017

The WONCA Working Party for Women & Family Medicine (WWPWFM) was involved in various activities recently and the wokring party executive would like to share a summary report. It is going to be an exciting one-year preparing for Seoul, October 2018. Please come share your ideas and tell your stories of the wonderful work we all do for our patients and communities, and the challenges we face.

September, 2017

The launching of WONCA Rural Africa (WoRA) took place as scheduled during the 5th Joint WONCA Africa conference / South Africa Academy of Family Physicians in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday 18th August 2017.

September, 2017

The Patient Safety and Risk Management unit at the WHO has recently announced the roll-out of their updated patient safety website.

September, 2017

Prof Val Wass OBE, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education (WWPE) provide the Annual Report of the working party for July 2016 to June 2017. “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

September, 2017

Prof Felicity Goodyear-Smith, chair of WONCA Working Party on Research provides the working party's Annual Report July 2016 to June 2017 - The WONCA Working Party on Research (WWPR) has been increasingly active in the past year, our membership is growing and a Google discussion group has been set up.

September, 2017

Christopher Dowrick, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health (WWPMH) reports on activities in 2016-17. Since November 2016, we have made substantial progress on our three broad objectives: to improve internal structures; to offer mental health guidance for WONCA members; and to provide global leadership on primary mental health care.

August, 2017

I am Jesse Rockmore, a 4th year osteopathic medical student in the United States. I am originally from a small town in the lower Appalachian Mountains in Georgia. Poor access to primary and surgical care in my small town compelled me to pursue a career in rural health care.

August, 2017

The WONCA Europe 2017 conference seemed a very favorable setting to promote the issue of Planetary Health and increase the general awareness for it. Some of this happened, but the potential is much greater.

July, 2017

Information on high quality, freely accessible online resources, with a focus on common mental health problems, aimed primarily (but not exclusively) at family doctors. This list has been collated by members of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health

July, 2017

Dr John Wynn-Jones, Chair of RuralWONCA (WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice) summarises the annual report of the Working Party: It has been particularly busy year with two conferences within six months; at the World WONCA Conference in Rio de Janeiro (November 2016) and at our own 14th WONCA World Rural Health Conference in Cairns Australia (April 2017). Both were highly successful and it was valuable for our council to meet on both occasions.