News from our Working Parties and Special Interest Groups, includes the latest clinical tool from the WP on Mental Health: GP/FP Role in non drug interventions. There are also new resources from the WHO for their global campaign: Medication Without Harm.

I find myself in the odd position of being a featured doctor this month (after seven years of avoidance). Also featured is the president of the coming WONCA EMR conference in Kuwait, Dr Anwar Alnajjar.

Finally, don’t forget next year’s conferences will soon be here – it’s time to submit abstracts and consider registering for at least one of them.
Dr Karen Flegg. WONCA Editor.

From the President – November 2017

WONCA President Amanda Howe visits Lebanon: Tahaddi clinic is next to one of the main Palestinian refugee camps, and provides health services to a population who live mostly in shanty housing. Over 65% of these patients are Syrian refugees, while the remaining 35% are Lebanese residents of the area.

From the CEO’s Desk: WONCA Executive meets

Greetings again from Bangkok. This month I’ll report on the meeting of the 2016-18 Executive, which took place in Bangkok on 29th and 30th October 2017 – this was the second full meeting of the 2016-18 WONCA Executive and the last meeting for Prof Michael Kidd.

Policy Bite: Rural priorities and progress – Australia

WONCA has had a Working Party on Rural Practice for many years. Their vision is “health for all rural people around the world”, and, as for WONCA as a whole, one of the key aims of their advocacy is to ensure governments recognise the importance of family medicine and its rural and remote workforce. It is therefore a source of celebration that Prof Paul Worley, a member of the WONCA Rural Working Party, has been appointed as the first Rural Health Commissioner of Australia

AAFP members help Puerto Rico colleagues

Kim Yu MD from the USA, is one amazing colleague. In just one week after the recent hurricane devastated Puerto Rico, Kim took to Facebook and drove a fundraising effort to help her collegues in Puerto Rico, raising over $62,000 from all the chapters of the American Academy of Family Physicians in just over one week,

Mental Health resource: GP/FP Role in non drug interventions

launched at the WONCA Asia Pacific Region Conference this week: “Family doctors’ role in providing non-drug interventions (NDIs) for common mental health disorders in primary care” is a new resource produced by the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health

World conference 2018 Seoul – welcome message

WONCA’s next world conference comes to Seoul, Korea from October 17 – 21, 2018. The theme of the conference is “Primary Care in the Future: Professional Excellence,” and will cover diverse disciplines of family medicine from the present to the future. For the vision of future family medicine, we plan to offer a dynamic and stimulating array of scientific and practical hands-on programs as well as special events. Find out more.

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WHO Liaison

WHO new leadership team

Medication Without Harm

WONCA EMR at WHO

WONCA Asia Pacificat WHO

WONCA Groups

Rural Round-up: A Rural Health Commissioner

Mental Health MattersEducation WP- Asia Pacific

SIG Health Equity

Promoting Planetary Health

SIG Family Violence at VdGM

Featured Doctors

Karen FLEGG -Australia

Anwar ALNAJJAR -Kuwait

Notices

WONCA leaders awarded

Atai Omorutu Scholarship

CONFERENCES

World conference 2018 Seoul

World Rural Health 2018

Dragon News 5: Krakow

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