WONCA World
WONCA is an acronym for the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians, or World Organization of Family Doctors for short. Wonca World maintains close collaboration with the WHO, e.g. in the areas of tobacco cessation, obesity and mental health. Wonca is made up of national professional and academic organizations of general practitioners/family doctors from more than 100 countries worldwide as well as of individual members. The family doctors attached to Wonca’s member organizations provide care to 80% of the world’s population. More information can be found on www.globalfamilydoctor.com WONCA Europe
WONCA Europe is one of the 6 sub-organizations of WONCA World and includes all European countries and represents more than 45.000 family physicians in Europe. WONCA Europe has about 400 direct members. The society of WONCA EUROPE is the academic and scientific society for general practitioners in Europe. Its objective is to improve the quality of life of the peoples of the world through fostering and maintaining high standards of care in general practice/family medicine by providing a forum for exchange of knowledge and information; encouraging and supporting the development of academic organizations of general practitioners/family physicians; and representing the educational, research and service provision activities of general practitioners/family physicians before other world organizations and forums concerned with health and medical care. The society aims to stimulate networking among GPs with an interest in professional development, research, education and quality improvement. WONCA Europe networks are:

Education: EURACT

Quality improvement: EQuiP

Research: EGPRN

These networks handle all important family-medicine-related issues in Europe. In cooperation with delegates from all member countries, they work on key consensus documents for family medicine. These can then be used by the national GP organizations, following adjustment to their individual health systems. WONCA Europe carries out an annual European conference to promote networking between GPs with an interest in research, education and quality improvement. WONCA’s objectives are:

to improve the quality of life of the world population, promoting high standards in family medicine.

to support the development of academic organisations of family medicine.

to provide a forum for exchange between member organisations.

to represent the educational, research and service provision activities of family physicians before other organisations.

to ensure professional development, research, education and quality improvement.

More information can be found on: www.woncaeurope.org