European Training Requirements for GP/FM Specialist Training – EURACT Document 2018
WONCA Europe and its teaching organization EURACT have produced several important documents on the definition and description of the General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) specialty. EURACT specifically dealt with the different aspects of education in GP/FM – from undergraduate to special...
2018 Public
Overdiagnosis And Action to Be Taken – Position Paper 2018
Modern medicine has brought impressive benefits to humankind. A side-effect of its many successes is however an unfounded, cultural belief that more medicine is necessarily better, irrespective of context. Consequently, problems related to “too much medicine”, overdiagnosis and overtr...
2018 Public
WONCA Europe 2018 Krakow: Promoting Equity for a Better Quality of Care for All Europeans
“Everyone has the right to timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality” is one of the 20 principles and rights proclaimed by the European Commission in 2017. EQuiP, the European Society for Quality and Safety in Family Practice, a WON...
2018 Public
WONCA Europe 2016 Copenhagen: European Family Doctors call for Joint Action with Heads and Hearts!
Primary healthcare workers are experiencing increasing pressure from new healthcare structures, a rising patient demand for family medicine, and a shortage of resources. Many European countries face a lack of investment in primary care in contrast to ongoing high investment in specialised seconda...
2016 Public
Prevention and Health Promotion in Primary Care – EUROPREV Policy Statement 2010
Over the past thirty years general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) has become the cornerstone of most national healthcare systems in Europe. New research and evidence and other advances are inspiring major changes in health care systems all over the globe and in GP/FM. Medical organisations rep...
2010 Public