WONCA Europe

📢 WONCA Europe July 2025 Newsletter is out!

🌾 EURIPA's Wittenberg Statement 2025
📖 EUROPREV: 7 ways to optimise prevention
📚 Leonardo Course for medical educators in Ukraine
🍷 Support for Ireland's alcohol labelling law

📩 Read now: https://pnc.ee/we2507

#WONCAEurope #FamilyMedicine

🎙️ Join 3 upcoming WE Talks:
🔹 27 Aug – Member-at-Large candidates
🔹 3 Sep – President-Elect candidates
🔹 11 Sep – OECD's PaRIS & Patient Voice

Free & open to all → https://pnc.ee/wetalk

#WETalk #WONCA #FamilyDoctors

📢 Turkish-language HPV webinar by WONCA Europe & KLİMİK now online!

🎙️ Insights from PROTECT-EUROPE by Prof. Ungan & Dr. Sarıca Çevik.

🎥 Watch: https://pnc.ee/LYzolWp

#HPV #Vaccination

...visions and priorities.

https://pnc.ee/ArvOPG6

...Member-at-Large and President-Elect positions:
27 August: Featuring candidates for WONCA World Member-at-Large
3 September: Featuring candidates for WONCA Europe President-Elect
These sessions aim to provide members with the opportunity to engage with the candidates and learn more about their...

...WONCA Europe is a member, sent a letter to the Irish Minister of Health Defending Ireland's Alcohol Labelling Regulations – A Critical Public Health Imperative.
WONCA Europe will host special WE Talk webinar sessions to introduce candidates standing for the upcoming elections of WONCA WORLD...

...thrive, maintaining a strong submission rate and a Q1 Impact factor.
WONCA Europe welcomed a new associate member from Turkey.
The EB discussed the possible establishment of a European Family Medicine Ultrasound Special Interest Group.
European Health Alliance on Alcohol (EHAA), of which...

delegates must have valid WONCA Europe website accounts.
The European Council meeting and handover ceremony will take place in Lisbon on 17 September
The WONCA Europe Open Meeting will showcase research projects in the last three years.
The European Journal of General Practice continues to...

The Executive Board (EB) held its regular online meeting on Monday, 28 July, ahead of the WONCA World Conference 2025 in Lisbon and related pre-conference meetings.
A demonstration of the electronic voting system for the European Council meeting was conducted, emphasizing that all registered...

...on enhancing the role and competencies of primary care, including prescribing rights, referral authority, financing reform, and digital transformation — all key to building a more efficient and accessible system.

for more => https://pnc.ee/8Ev9GqA

...supported by more than 100 distinguished speakers, including national and international experts. Sessions included symposia, interactive workshops, and thematic sections tailored to physicians, dentists, and healthcare professionals across the full spectrum of primary care. Discussions focused...

together healthcare professionals, policymakers, and international experts to explore how primary care can assume a more central role in Hungary's healthcare landscape, which remains overly hospital-centered.
The conference was attended by over 650 participants, with the professional program...

Prof Shlomo Vinker represented WONCA Europe at the Hungarian Association of Family Doctors (HAOSZ) 5th National Conference, that took place between June 12–14, 2025, in Balatonalmádi, Hungary. Themed “What is the Role of Primary Care in the Future Healthcare System?”, the event brought...

...#AlcoholAwareness #CancerPrevention #EHAA #RightToKnow #EVIDAction

...https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/08-05-2025-european-health-alliance-on-alcohol-launched-to-reduce-the-unsustainable-toll-of-alcohol-harms-in-europe
https://www.woncaeurope.org/news/view/we-at-the-european-alcohol-health-alliance-lauch-during-easl-2025-conference

#PublicHealth...

...delay.

👉Read the full letter: https://pnc.ee/azEwk4Y
👉 Learn more about the EHAA:...

...labelling regulations, set to take effect in May 2026.

This evidence-based policy is critical for reducing alcohol-related harm, ensuring consumer health literacy, and safeguarding public trust.

We call on the Irish Government to resist commercial pressure and implement this measure without...

𝗘𝗛𝗔𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁.

The European Health Alliance on Alcohol (EHAA), of which WONCA Europe is member of, representing 1.2 million health professionals across Europe, has submitted a formal letter of support for Ireland's alcohol...

𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 – 𝗔 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲....

...often poor even when recommended, in particular in staff with less formal education.
Interaction between infectious diseases and noncommunicable diseases and the prevention of NCD complications triggered by infection merit further attention.

...who initates and organises consent, who actually delivers the vaccinations? This may vary in different healthcare systems, but will require both interprofessional teams and appropriate management.
Flu and COVID vaccination coverage among health care providers and other nursing home staff is...

...facilities as they need to rely on various other parties to facilitate vaccination.
In long term care facilities, both general infection control measures and better access to vaccinations require defined responsabilities, workflow routines: Who keeps track of vaccination schedules and needs,...

...between countries. Public recommendations and cost coverage do not necessarily align. Even in countries where vaccinations are recommended and paid for resident of long term care facilities, coverage is often mediocre. Access can be particularly cumbersome for people living in long term care...

...infection-conscious cleaning and laundry routines, contact hygiene and adequate contact management of (index) cases of infection are essential, but not always given sufficient attention.
Adults/elderly people's access to vaccines against respiratory diseases and Herpes Zoster vary considerably...

...well be somewhat biased by indication, there also appears to be substantial differences between facilities as to the risk they pose to their inhabitants.
The risk associated with living in a nursing home seems to be institutional rather than individual.
Adequate building infrastructure,...

...home/long term care residents are a population vulnerable to infectious diseases. One predominant risk factor is older age. However, the only really relevant other risk factor is the fact of living in a nursing home, rather than any specific morbidities or combination thereof. While this may...

...Respiratory Viruses (ESWI) https://eswi.org /), as well as a representative from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en, and two industry observers.
The various pieces of research presented allow for some remarkable conclusions:
Nursing...

...through infection control committees and trainings in nursing homes. Experts included medical doctors from different fields (geriatrics, hygiene, public health, general practice among others), nurses, and interest groups (EICA, AIB, European Scientific Working group on Influenza and other...

...facilities/nursing homes were presented and discussed (see programme). The main focus was on vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases (influenza, COVID-19, pneumococcal pneumonia/IPD, RSV, pertussis) and also Herpes Zoster, as well as more general aspects of infection control, for example...

...participation in a Technical Meeting of the AIB (Adult Immunization Board, https://www.adultimmunizationboard.org/) organized 7th-8th May 2025 in Warsaw (Poland).

In the San Servolo Meeting, different aspects on prevention and control of infectious diseases in residents of long term care...