EFPC NEWS

The healthcare systems operating in the various member states of the European Union differ from one another quite significantly. However, all are under pressure from a number of pan-European developments and all are implementing reforms designed to [...]

Dear EFPC members, We would like to inform you that for our upcoming EFPC General Assembly, which will be held on the 6th of September during our Bergen Conference this year, there are two positions available within our [...]

Dear EFPC members, The Executive Board is pleased to announce the nomination of Prof Maria van den Muijsenbergh as the  new EFPC chair for the upcoming years. Due to the fact that Prof Sally Kendall is ending [...]

Dear EFPC members, We can announce a vacancy on the executive board, for which we would like to find someone who shares our vision for high quality, interprofessional primary care throughout Europe! For this vacancy  we have [...]

Greener Primary Care By Pim de Graaf Does Primary Care have a big environmental footprint? Do we produce much waste and CO2 emissions? Do we use much energy, more than necessary? I suspect we have no data. [...]

WFPHA Press Release: Coalition of International NGOs Call for Equitable Access for Vaccines and Treatment during COVID-19 Pandemic Around the world, governments are struggling to find ways to work together and control the spread of COVID-19. The [...]

A call to action for global, European and national stakeholders and governments to strengthen pandemic preparedness and responsiveness by taking a life- course immunization (LCI) approach which will expand access to vaccines, improve uptake, and ensure optimal protection of all [...]

European Forum for Primary Care: Position Paper for Primary Care Mental Health. Time for change, now more then ever! There is a need for a paradigm shift across mental health in primary care to improve the lives [...]

Petition for the campaign 30by2030 goes live from the 15th of November We call for major international donors to assign a part of their vertical (disease-oriented) categorical budgets, increasing to 30% by 2030, to strengthening horizontal Primary [...]

Dealing with the collateral damage of covid-19: It’s not all about cure—it’s about care COVID-related disruptions in care disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. With strong PHC, populations can access quality care from trusted health care workers in [...]

EFPC acts as one of the Allies Improving Primary Health Care An empowered, vocal and engaged community, uniting to achieve reliable and resilient primary health care which started a global campaign named "#StrongwithPHC". Together with [...]

“Does corona offer a level playing field?” or in other words “Is one population group more affected by corona than another?” Covid-19 appears to be hitting people of ethnic minority background more often. Does the coronavirus discriminate? [...]

Collecting cases of Primary Care in closed settings/prisons The Working Group ‘Prison Health’ of the European Forum for Primary Care would like to collect information on the relationships between health care in prisons and primary care after [...]

EFPC 2020 General Assembly Date: Monday, 28 September 2020 Time: from 17.00h to 18.30h (CET) Place: online Agenda EFPC 2020 General Assembly: On-Line via Zoom (Before joining a Zoom meeting you must download the Zoom app (Zoom [...]

Statement on COVID-19 from the European Forum for Primary Care: Reducing the Impacts on Vulnerable Groups On behalf of its members and partnering institutions, and based on four focus groups and a two-part survey, the EFPC has [...]

The EFPC is pleased to announce a collaboration on Primary Sources with WONCA World, Afro Primary Health Care, Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI,  WHO, WorldBank, Gates Foundation and UNICEF initiative), to promote stories from the frontlines [...]