Working Party News

August, 2015

Ian Couper, Roger Strasser, Jim Rourke, John Wynn-Jones have published a history of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice 1992 to 2012 in the journal "Rural and Remote Health". It includes some fascinating memories and conclusions about the state of play at the moment.

July, 2015

I am a middle aged Italian family doctor who lives and works in a rural village in Southern Italy. I work in a solo doctor practice and my surgery is in a wing of my own house. This is quite unusual and considered barely legal nowadays, but is tolerated as I started my practice long ago.

June, 2015

This month we make a special rural feature in WONCA News. In April, the WONCA world rural health conference was held in Dubrovnik and our very active WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice formally met. The WWPRP is chaired by Dr John Wynn-Jones of Wales and he and Dr Jo Scott-Jones of New Zealand have fueled such a wave of enthusiasm from working party members that we have decided to make a special rural feature in this month's WONCA News.

June, 2015

Veronika Rasic, a family medicine trainee, from Croatia and a member of the Vasco da Gama Movement for young doctors writes on her experience with the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice in Croatia recently. She is now looking to connect with other young rural enthusiasts.

June, 2015

At the WONCA Rural health conference in Dubrovnik the new Working Party on Rural Practice’s resource page was launched to augment the existing webpage on WONCA's website. The new resource page will provide an up to date working space

June, 2015

A great conference leaves an impression that lasts, a great health conference creates something new that impacts on patient outcomes. On this measure, Dubrovnik was a great conference. Jo Scott-Jones reports.

June, 2015

Dr Noreen Lineen-Curtis, a general practitioner from Achill, County Mayo, Ireland says that life as a rural GP on the West coast of Ireland is never, ever dull. Read on to find out why ..

June, 2015

This is the story of a doctor’s experience in the worst case disaster situation, it is a story unsung bravery and of the courage staff at Jiri Hospital, Nepal, displayed during and after the disaster - Dr Roshan Khatri, Medical Superintendent at Jiri Hospital, Dolakha district east of Kathmandu writes.

May, 2015

You don’t have to be inspired to work here ... but it helps! So here I am at age 60, resurrecting an old rural practice in the northern-most community in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

May, 2015

From 28th-30th April, a conference took place in Lille, France, under the title “Mental Health for all: connecting people and sharing experience”. The WONCA Working Party on Mental Health took advantage of the presence of WWPMH members for a meeting.