Position statement PRICOV endorsed by EQuIP
Position paper Moving Forward After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned in Primary Care The Covid-19 pandemic presented a significant challenge to primary care (PC), its organization, the people working in it, and its interfaces with the w...
2023 Public
THE EUROPEAN DEFINITION OF GENERAL PRACTICE / FAMILY MEDICINE. WONCA EUROPE 2023 Edition
THE EUROPEAN DEFINITION OF GENERAL PRACTICE / FAMILY MEDICINE WONCA EUROPE 2023 Edition THE EUROPEAN DEFINITION OF GENERAL PRACTICE / FAMILY MEDICINE WONCA EUROPE 2023 Edition THE WONCA TREE – AS PRODUCED BY THE SWISS COLLEGE OF PRIMARY ...
2023 Public
WONCA Europe 2023 Brussels: Shortage of European Primary Health Care Workforce Statement
Excessive workload, early burnout, and the shortage of the primary care workforce are interconnected factors representing the most formidable challenge of the near future. The complexity of the shortage of doctors and other healthcare professionals in European primary care necessitates a comprehe...
2023 Public
WONCA Europe Recommendation on Qualifications for General Practice/Family Medicine Academic Posts in the Universities and Academic Units
By World Organization of Family Doctors Region-Europe (WONCA Europe) WONCA Europe aims to provide evidence and guidance to Decision Makers, Rectors, Deans, Department Heads, Academic Administrators and to those others responsible for recruiting academic staff for GP/...
2023 Public
WONCA Europe Recommendation on the role of Primary Health in the care for patients with chronic respiratory diseases
Background Nearly 200 million people (4% of the world’s population) have COPD, and 3.2 million die of it each year, making it the third leading cause of death worldwide, and probably significantly under-counted due to under- or mis-diagnosis. Asthma affects more than 350 million pe...
2023 Public
WONCA EUROPE STATEMENT FOR THE 73rd SESSION OF THE WHO REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR EUROPE SHORTAGE OF EUROPEAN PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE
WONCA EUROPE STATEMENT FOR THE 73rd SESSION OF THE WHO REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR EUROPE SHORTAGE OF EUROPEAN PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE The interconnected challenges of excessive workload, premature burnout, and a shortage of primary care personnel represe...
2023 Public
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