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European Forum for Primary Care has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 UN Interagency Task Force and the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award. We, as the EFPC, are highly honored to be receiving such an important award The UN Interagency Task Force & the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health [...]

We are proud to inform you that the European Forum for Primary Care has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 UN Interagency Task Force and the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award. These awards are in recognition of the role in providing an exemplary platform for primary health care professionals [...]

The EFPC Primary Care Organization Working Group has published a new Position Paper in the official EFPC Journal Primary Health Care Research & Development (PHCR&D): Title: Organization of Primary Care Published: 1st September 2022 Authors: Mehmet Akman, Duygu Ayhan Başer, Bugu UsanmaKoban, Tino Marti, Peter Decat, Yann Lefeuvre and Robin Miller Journal: Primary Health Care Research [...]

The EFPC General Assembly will take place in Ghent, on the 26th of September. The agenda and annexed documents will be sent to the EFPC members in the upcoming days. Date: Monday, 26 September 2022 Time: from 18.00h to 19.30h (CET) Place: “Het pand” | Onderbergen 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Please, register for the EFPC 2022 Conference to confirm your [...]

Free online CME-accredited content covering diabetes and obesity. The Academy for Science and Continuing Education in Diabetes and Obesity (ASCEND) is a free online CME-accredited educational content covering diabetes and obesity. The E-learning Portal is a learning programme to support general practitioners/family physicians to improve patient outcomes through interactive knowledge and skills-based learning. Live [...]

Blueprint Alliance for a Future Health Workforce Strategy on Digital And Green Skills: BeWell project kicked-off A strategy on upskilling and reskilling the European health workforce is being produced by a consortium of 24 partners from 11 European countries, led by the European Health Management Association (EHMA). The strategy is part of a project [...]

The EFPC would like to congratulate Elena Petelos as the new member of the HERA Civil Society Forum. The EFPC is thrilled and fortunate to have an exquisite representative like Elena Petelos to represent us in future meetings and discussion groups. Elena Petelos gave the following statement about her new position: “This is wonderful [...]

The EFPC Prison Health Working Group has published a new Position Paper in the official EFPC Journal Primary Health Care Research & Development (PHCR&D): The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care Groenewegen, P., Dirkzwager, A., Van Dam, A., Massalimova, D., Sirdifield, C., [...]

3i Collaboration: Promoting Community Health through Primary Care (ProComm) In May, the EFPC collaborated with the Universities of Kent, Ghent, and Lille to hold the '3i Collaboration: Promoting Community Health through Primary Care (ProComm)' event. The event was three days and took place in Canterbury (on the campus of the University of Kent). Within those three [...]

The EFPC would like to invite members interested in joining the Advisory Board for the next 3 years to come up with a nomination or submit your interest! If you would like to know more about what it means to become an EFPC Advisory Board, please have a look at the following document! In [...]