Working Party News

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

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

July, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones, Immediate Past Chair WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice has been writing a regular “rural miscellany” email since March, to provide resources on COVID-19 but also to give us a touch of poetry as a diversion in these difficult times. His body of work is now available on one website for your enjoyment.

June, 2020

Prof Chris Dowrick, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health, writes on some resources in the time of COVID-19 in his latest newsletter to colleagues.

June, 2020

WONCA's Working Party on Research through Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Bob Mash have produced a book on "How to do Primary Care Research". A review of this book has been published and can be found online.

June, 2020

This multinational survey aimed to understand characteristics and strategies employed by different countries to deal with COVID-19 from a PHC perspective to determine: factors most associated with national mortality rates during the pandemic period to date, and lessons to better address both current and future pandemics

June, 2020

Prof Val Wass, Chair WONCA Working Party on Education writes on the latest open access item in Education for Primary Care: from Felicity Goodyear-Smith "Provision of e-learning programmes to replace undergraduate medical students’ clinical general practice attachments during COVID-19 stand-down"

May, 2020

WONCA has launched a webinar series on COVID-19. Watch previous webinars online. Find out how to join the next WONCA webinar on Research coming on Sunday, 31 May at 10:00am UTC.

May, 2020

The WONCA Working Party on Education thanks WONCA World for hosting a Working Party on Education webinar. It provided an international platform to explore the impact of COVID-19 on Education and Training.

April, 2020

Prof Bruce Arroll has now made a high quality film on the subject - Depression -an evidence based first consultation"