WONCA SIG POLICY ADVOCACY WEBINARJUNE 22ND

SETTING OUR PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT BIENNIUM WHAT WILL HELP WONCA MOST?

Background

The SIGPA was set up in the last biennium, aimingtobuildcapacityforpolicyadvocacy by family doctors at national and local level We have run webinars, shared evidence on howtohandlepowerandcreatechange,and heard from colleagues who have been advocates through WONCA and their other roles We know that educational events are valuable, and also that people like to have the chance to apply their learning to their own situations. With the next WONCA Conference in October, all SIGs and WPs are expected to create a programme of work, and so we want to use the June webinar to sharesomeideasaboutprioritiesforourSIG, andgetyourviews Thisinitselfisalearning exercise–howtodecidewhatmattersmost, andhowtoactonit!Sojoinus.

TIMES

To accommodate different time zones, we shallruntwowebinars–

0700 and1600-1730UTC-RegisterHERE

Chairs–AmandaHoweandShabirMoosa

Panelspeakers - to give us their views on whatcanwork,andwhattoprioritisetohelp family doctors be effective advocates for their patients and teams, their services and communities, and their health systems, we welcome

Dr Florian Stigler (Austrian family physician, also convenor of the “Global Forum on UHC & PHC” Forum; and Dr Sankha Randenikumara YDM Representative on WONCAExecutive

Format

The Chair and panellists will start the webinar with brief presentations and then questions. We will go into breakout rooms for 20 minutes and then come back to continue the wider debate The Chair will summarise“take-homepoints”thatwillhelp the SIGPA Exec to form a further proposal, which will then be shared on the Portal so members can feed back ahead of October, whenprogrammecanbefinalised.

Specific questions to start you thinking

“What do I most need from the WONCA SIGPA to help me be effective as a family doctor? How can we make the advocacy efforts of our national family medicine associationmoreeffective?WhatwouldIlike them to do over the next 2 years? Who else needstobeinvolvedforthistowork?”

Seeyousoon!