WONCA Europe Dublin 2024 Statement

Cultivating the Future - One size does not fit all   Family medicine plays a crucial role in primary care by offering comprehensive, continuous, and personalised healthcare to individuals of all ages, often serving as the first point of contact within the healthcare system. It manage...

2024 Public

WONCA Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care

  Ultrasound has been described as 'the Stethoscope for the 21st Century'. Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) can answer a specific clinical question or support a specific procedural aim within a routine clinical consultation. Its use within family medicine is rapidly increasing...

2024 Public

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

WONCA Europe 2017 Prague: Growing Together in Diversity for the Benefit of All Europeans

Growing together in diversity for the benefit of all Europeans Diversity has always been one of the most defining and intrinsic characteristics of the people of Europe. The tension between diversity and a desire for uniformity has been the source of many of Europe’s great achievemen...

2017 Public