2nd EURIPA Rural Health Invitational Forum

Family medicine is the foundation of every organized healthcare system and its practice must remain a deeply vocational one. Practicing this speciality in rural and remote areas creates an important additional challenge for healthcare professionals. The 2nd EURIPA Rural Health Invitational Forum will address the quality of care under 8 themes which we believe is important to structuring family practice as a whole, in the very spirit of WONCA.

Workshops will each address one of the themes, starting from a position paper, and will contribute to a final report from the Forum. Representatives from countries across the EU, which have rural and remote areas, will work together in order to identify common issues as well as particular situations which require individual attention. This second Forum will build on the foundations established last year at the 1st EURIPA Rural Health Invitational Forum, in Majorca.

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Poster submission deadline is May 1st. Please send your poster in .ppt or .pdf format to Jane Randall-Smith (e-mail) and Jose López Abuin (e-mail) for review. Your poster must address one of the themes of the Forum. Please send only one poster abstract per Forum participant.

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Dear Colleagues

We have great pleasure in announcing the details of the 2nd EURIPA Rural Health Invitational Forum meeting which will take place in Sinaia, Romania 12-15th May 2011.

Many of you joined us last year in Majorca and helped make the Forum a memorable occasion. The Majorca Rural Forum was a great success. It brought together rural practitioners, academics and policy makers from across Europe and we were able to lay the foundations for a future strategy document on the future of Rural Health in Europe.

We are dedicating this second Forum to one of EURIPA’s principal themes, “The Provision of Quality Care in Rural Practice”. We are sure that you will all agree with us that our patients deserve high quality care irrespective of where they may live. Living on the periphery is just not an excuse for substandard care. This challenging aspiration commits us as clinicians and our colleagues as planners and policy makers to ensure that care is adequately resourced and issues of patient safety and clinical governance are diligently adhered to.

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The recent participation of the Romanian family doctors in the European and the international medical events reveals that we share the same passion with our colleagues from abroad.

Organizing the second edition of the Euripa Forum will be a new opportunity for us to strengthen the local initiatives, to enhance the decision making in the rural areas, to raise awareness for the urgent actions needed to support primary care.

We are keen to share with others the Romanian model for professional organizations, networking and community oriented primary care.

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