Working Party News

June, 2017

The WONCA Rural Africa group (WoRA) was introduced at the 14th WONCA Rural Assembly in Cairns Australia and was unanimously accepted. WoRA will be launched on the 18 August 2017 during the 5th WONCA Africa region conference in Pretoria and in India during 15th Rural WONCA conference 2018.

June, 2017

The government of Ukraine, together with the WHO-office in Kiev, is engaged in a process of transformation of the health care system, strengthening primary care and family medicine. Dr. Kees van Boven and Prof. Jan De Maeseneer gave a two-days training workshop for 50 family doctors, coming from the different Oblasts (“Provinces” in Ukraine), in Kiev.

June, 2017

A task group of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health, led by Alan Cohen (UK) and Kim Griswold (USA) has developed guidance to enable family doctors to care more effectively for their patients with severe mental illness.

May, 2017

Two Australian medical students, Thomas Currie (6th Year Medicine, James Cook University) and William Moorhead (4th Year Medicine, University of Queensland) – ‘Tom’ and ‘Billy’ attended the WONCA World Rural health conference in Cairns in early May. They provide their perspectives on the conference.

May, 2017

If you missed this amazing event, now is your opportunity to see our highlights reel! Thanks to everyone who attended the 14th World Rural Health Conference. It's hard to pick a highlight - there's so many to choose from! So here's some stand out events from the four days of conferencing.

May, 2017

The WONCA Working Party on the Environment has developed the WONCA Statement on Planetary Health and Sustainable Development Goals which was endorsed by the WONCA Executive in April 2017.

May, 2017

This month, David Hogg, a rural GP from the Isle of Arran, Scotland and tells us about his innovative website RuralGP.com... The aim of the site is to network and embrace rural general practice - and whilst there has been an inevitable Scottish focus, I am keen to feature any material relevant to international rural practice.

May, 2017

The "Education for Primary Care" journal has obtained free permanent open access for all WONCA members to five key and most informative leading articles on education for patient safety in primary care.

May, 2017

Its a great pleasure to announce the 15th WONCA World Rural Health Conference, South Asia Rural health conference (WRHC 2018) to be held in New Delhi from 26 - 29th April 2018. Early bird registration discounts are now open.

April, 2017

Professor Christopher Dowrick, Chair of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health writes about Depression as this year's theme for World Family Doctor Day and announces a new clinical resource for consultations.