Working Party News

June, 2018

Val Wass OBE, Chair, WONCA Working Party on Education provides a report on the working party activities over the past year including considering outcomes achieved and plans for the future.

May, 2018

Many have just returned from an extremely successful WONCA World Rural Health conference in Delhi. Dr Pratyush Kumar, chair of the Host Organising committee and Dr Raman Kumar President of the Academy of Family Physicians of India report on the many aspects of this wonderful event.

April, 2018

This month we reproduce a blog entry from RuralGP.com written by Dr Steve McCabe who works at the Portree Medical Practice on the Isle of Skye and giving his perspective on rural healthcare… "I work as part of a group practice in Portree, the largest settlement on Scotland’s second largest island, Skye. Skye is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful islands in the world."

April, 2018

The young doctors and medical students of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice 'Rural Seeds" have worked together with young members of the Working Party on the Environment to make an innovative movie "Planetary Health? What is this?"

March, 2018

​Dr Veronika Rasic is a GP trainee and co-chair of Rural Seeds, a group of young doctors and medical students with an interest in rural practice. Veronica recently authored a blog entry on the Transformative Education for Health Professionals. The subject of the blog entry is “Connecting Future Rural Healthcare Workers with Rural Communities”

March, 2018

La Doctora María-Pilar Astier-Peña, presidenta del Grupo de Trabajo de WONCA World de Calidad y Seguridad WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety participó en una reunión de expertos sobre “acción temprana para apoyar la implementación del tercer reto mundial de seguridad del paciente de la Organización Mundial de la Salud” “Medicación Sin Daño” (#MWH Pride).

March, 2018

Val Wass chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education announces that this months free access article from Education for Primary care is about placements in the community for undergraduate education influencing career choice.

February, 2018

The WONCA rural family will be meeting once again in two months’ time in Delhi for the 15th WONCA World Rural Health Conference. It is this global collective approach that has made a difference over the last 22 years since we met in Shanghai in 1996 for our first inaugural conference.

February, 2018

Dr Maria-Pilar Astier-Peña (Pictured), chair of the WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety has participated in an expert consultation concerning “Early global action to support implementation of the third WHO Patient Safety Challenge “Medication Without Harm” (#MWH Pride).

February, 2018

Chris Dowrick, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health writes about the latest resource produced by his Working Party : Core Competencies of Family Doctors in Mental Health Care. In the document they consider that there are six domains for the core competencies of family doctors in primary mental health care.