EFPC NEWS

EFPC has a vacancy in the Utrecht based secretariat for a junior coordinator. Have a look at the vacancy description and consider an application. Please respond before the 1st of December by sending your motivation letter and CV to the EFPC [...]

We are proud to have our former EFPC chair Jan De Maeseneer as one of the newly elected members of the American National Academy of Medicine (NAM)! The election is regarded as one of the highest awards in [...]

At the 2019 Nanterre EFPC General Assembly the members of the EFPC agreed on a statement regarding vaccination and Primary Care. The statement was prepared by EFPC chair Sally Kendall in collaboration with the other Executive Board members and [...]

Dear colleague, We have been together with other members and friends of EFPC at our recent conference in Nanterre. We wish you could have been there in Nanterre because.... Best wishes, #EFPC2019 Nanterre conference delegates   We have been together [...]

Interprofessional Education in Primary Care. Tuesday 12 November, 2019 @ 12.30 PM (Dutch time) Registration: send a message to the EFPC secretariat!

The EFPC is pleased to announce a joint collaboration with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Union of General Practitioners (UEMO) and World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). The statement, signed today, 6 June 2019 at EMA headquarter [...]

A new article is now available at the official journal of the EFPC Primary Health Care Research and Development. The article: The establishment and functioning of the PRIMORE (European PRImary care MultiprOfessional REsearcher network) Project, states the need [...]

A skill co-building pre-conference 20 November,2019 This skills co-building preconference aims to share experiences, findings and track solutions regarding the integration of public health and primary care through education and training of primary care and public health professionals [...]

The EFPC provided its compliments with this highly ambitious agenda. From the Primary Care perspective many points are relevant and very much supported by the EFPC. Very good is the wider scope of the EMA addressing problems with [...]

Dear EFPC members, We would like to inform you that for our upcoming EFPC General Assembly which will be held on the 30th of September in Nanterre. There are nine positions available within our Advisory Board. The EFPC would [...]

Primary care is significantly impacted by caring for increasingly complex populations. Effectively managing aging patients and chronic conditions requires that primary care professionals acquire new skills to build engaged teams in primary care to help “share the care.” [...]

What do you want to change for a better mental health service in primary care? What is, in your opinion, the most urgent problem related to mental healthcare? Does the problem lie with the inequality of the model [...]

The UN High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Universal Health Coverage will take place on 23 September 2019 during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week. The EFPC has been approved as a non-governmental organisation to participate in [...]

The launch meeting of the PRIMORE project was held in Utrecht on March 28-29, 2019. Over forty participants from all over Europe and from multiple disciplines within primary care joined us in an unusual and inspiring setting at [...]

In this webinar you will listen to the results of the PARADISO project which aims to create through participatory educational and awareness raising activities for healthcare professionals – an accepting environment and equal access for LGBTQI people, while trying [...]

Health and health care among migrants are relevant and controversial issues in Europe for many years. The number of people with migrant status living in Europe is growing rapidly. Despite international conventions and resolutions, many refugees and migrants lack [...]

The EFPC has responded to a public consultation from the European Ombudsman on how the European Medicines Agency engages with medicine developers before they apply for authorisations to market their medicines in the EU. This public consultation is [...]

Preparations for the 29/30 Sept - 1 Oct Nanterre conference are ongoing. #EFPC2019 The key-note speakers are identified: Sara Willems, Armin Fidler and Charlotte Marchandise The call for abstracts is closed after having received more than 125 abstracts! Thanks for all those interesting [...]

This webinar will introduce the PRIMORE research network project.This initiative aims at bringing together researchers with different backgrounds and from a wide range of professional groups within the fields of primary care research and long-term care research, develop and [...]

ORAMMA Project Final Event Thursday 28th February,2019. 10.30-15.30 Maastricht University Campus (Brussels,Belgium) Free Registration The event will feature an overview of the project and its products, a report on the findings of the systematic review and training implementation, [...]

We are pleased to announce our first Key Note Speaker: Charlotte Marchandise, Deputy Mayor of Rennes, France and Chair of the French National Network of Healthy Cities. We are happy to have her presence at the 14th EFPC conference on Primary [...]

Former and present chair of the EFPC, Jan De Maeseneer and Sally Kendall came together for this editorial taking you into the primary health care (PHC) journey. This paper explains PHC evolution along the years and the future [...]

ORAMMA Webinar Friday 25th January 2019 at 12pm noon UK time. Join Professor Hora Soltani of Sheffield Hallam University and Eleanor Shaw from the European Midwives Association to hear about the ORAMMA project and the systematic review Hora [...]

EFPC Webinar: Imbalances in rural primary care: the risk of a primary care vacuum in rural and remote areas Rural and remote areas have an ageing population, with increasing health needs and a shrinking carrying capacity for community [...]