The conference entitled: “Towards Real-World Solutions in Mental Health” was held from 5-8 April 2025 in Madrid (Spain) and featured the proactive presence of WONCA Europe (WE).
Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, WE member-at-large was involved at the European Psychiatric Association (EPA)-Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Network (GAMIAN)- European Federation of Associations of Families of People with Mental Illness (EUFAMI)- WONCA joint symposium named Patients, Families, Primary Care and Mental Health Professionals-Towards Collaborative Care Models.
The presentations of this symposium highlighted the importance of involving patients and their families in a proactive way to address this increasingly emerging condition since mental health has become by now a public health issue. Collaboration between primary and secondary care providers has also proved to be essential.
Dr. Petrazzuoli illustrated the results of some surveys carried out in the WONCA Europe families showing that the COVID-19 pandemic had a catastrophic effect of the primary care workforce producing high levels of burnout. Unfortunately, despite the end of the pandemic, recent international surveys have shown that this condition is not doing any better. Apparently, the growing burden of administrative tasks is one of the stressors which is more related to early burnout in the primary care workforce.
You can dowload the presentation of Ferdinando Petrazzuoli from here.
The joint workshop conclusions highlighted the importance of future scientific collaboration between WONCA Europe and the EuropeanPsychiatric Association .
Joint symposium EPA-GAMIAN-EUFAMI-WONCA Europe: Patients, Families, Primary Care and Mental Health Professionals- Towards Collaborative Care Models
06.04.2025 |
Chair: Marianne Destoop (Belgium) , André Decraene
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08:00 - 08:20 |
Public mental health: An opportunity to support collaborative action Speaker: Marianne Destoop (Belgium) |
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08:20 - 09:00 |
Collaborative Care from the Family Perspective Speaker: Shaun Johnson (United Kingdom) |
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08:20 - 09:00 |
Collaborative Care from the Family Perspective - 2 Speaker: John Saunders (Belgium) |
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09:00 - 09:20 |
Professional Burnout in primary care workforce Speaker: Ferdinando Petrazzuoli (Italy) |
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09:20 - 09:30 |
Q&A |
The conference was a great success with over 5000 (5227) delegates from all over Europe and nearly 3000 (2926) abstracts submitted.
Solid basis for future scientific collaboration between WONCA Europe and the European Psychiatric Association have been established.
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