Working Party News

January, 2017

WICC is the WONCA International Classification Committee, the oldest working committee of WONCA. The WICC currently has 45 members from 29 countries. "A classification is much more than the annoying outflow of bureaucrats. Instead it is a tool to separate the fuzzy world into disjunctive categories in order to make it countable and statistically describable."

December, 2016

​The aim of the working party is to enhance global equity of access to high quality primary mental health care. Our objectives are to improve internal structures, offer mental health guidance for WONCA members and provide global leadership on primary mental health care. Here are the activities planned for the next two years.

December, 2016

Prof Chris Dowrick the new chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health (WWPMH) intends a regular series of bulletins to keep you all in touch with latest developments and activities for our Working Party. Here is news following on from Rio.

November, 2016

The WONCA Working Party on Research's new Chair, Prof Felicity Goodyear-Smith, reports on the meeting in Rio's development of activity plans for the next two years.

November, 2016

The 14th WONCA World Rural Health Conference will be held at the Cairns Convention Centre, Australia, from 29 April to 2 May 2017. The conference will be based around themes most relevant to all rural and remote health practitioners. These include social and environmental determinants of health; leadership, education and workforce; social accountability and social capital, and rural clinical practices: people and services.

November, 2016

“Young Doctors”, doctors from developing countries, and medical students, are invited to apply for bursaries to support them to attend the WONCA Rural Health Conference which will be held in Cairns, Australia from 29 April -2 May 2017. Others are invited to support bursaries for colleagues or medical students.

September, 2016

John Wynn- Jones writes: I have just returned from a remarkable international symposium in Norway on the research associated with generalism in rural practice, which was hosted by the Centre for Rural Medicine at the University of Tromso. Although the term rural generalism appears to be new, it is really a reaffirmation of the fact that doctors working in rural & isolated communities are by nature generalists. Good rural doctors, who have such a wide scope of practice have to be good generalists.

September, 2016

WONCA has supported a Bill of Rights produced by the World Psychiatric Association. The Bill of Rights has been supported by the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health and WONCA World Executive.

September, 2016

Have you heard about the "Rural Health Stories" set up by a partnership of WONCA Rural South Asia (WoRSA) and the World Rural Medicine Students Network. This month we note that WONCA’s President Elect, Prof Amanda Howe has submitted a very lovely poem "Human Kindness".

July, 2016

WONCA has launched its new policy statement on eHealth developed by the WONCA Working Party on eHealth. The statement on eHealth calls for information technology that supports the family doctor in providing patient-centered care that has high quality and is safe.