Nicosia 7/8 May 2009, "Primary Care: Interdisciplinary and Community Oriented"

The University of Nicosia and the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) recognizing evidence for the development of primary health care, as described in the World Health Report 2008, “Primary Health Care, now more than ever”, have taken the initiative to organize an event focusing on interdisciplinarity and community orientation in relation to Primary Care.

A short report on the conference is available and for most of the presentations, please see below the links within the programme. If you did not fill out the evaluation form, please download it and send it to info@euprimarycare.org
 
Final programme: 
 
Day 1 (Thursday, 7 May)

Morning (9.00–13.00) Auditorium

 
Key notes:
Coffee-break (30 min)
Plenary discussion (30 min)

Lunch (13.00–14.00)
 
Afternoon (14.00–17.00)
 
Position Paper on interdisciplinary collaboration
  • (Room 1) EFPC Position Paper workshop chaired by Mr. Paolo Tedeschi, coordinator EFPC Position Paper, St Anna School, Pisa, Italy (with a maximum of 10 invited experts) (180 min)
 
Parallel sessions

  • First round (75 min)
A: (Room 2) EFPC Position Paper workshop PC & Sexual & Reproductive Health (Mr. Evert Ketting, NL & Ms. Aysegul Esin, Turkey)
B: (Room 3) Home Nursing for Elderly (Ms. Felicia Cretu, Moldova & Ms. Anastasia Argyrou, Cyprus)

Break (30 min)

  • Second round (75 min)
C: (Room 2) PC & Preconceptional Health (Mr. Denhard de Smit, NL)
D: (Room 3) Nursing Care in PHC setting (Ms. Majda Zorec, Montenegro & Ms. Chryso Gregoriadou, Cyprus)

Late afternoon (17.00–18.00) Conference room

Annual Member Meeting chaired by Prof Jan De Maeseneer (only for EFPC members) (60 min)

Evening (19.00–22.00) Conference room

EFPC Executive Committee meeting (180 min)

Day 2 (Friday, 8 May)

Morning (9.00–12.30) Auditorium

Key-notes
Coffee break (30 min)

Plenary discussion (30 min)

Lunch (12.30–13.30)

Afternoon (13.30–17.00)

Round Table
 
  • (Room 1 or auditorium) Community Oriented Primary Care in Cyprus (chaired by Prof. Barbara Parfitt, UK) (180 min)
 
Parallel sessions

  • First round (75 min)
E: (Room 2) EC Green Paper on EU Health workforce (Ms. Liz Kidd, UK/EU & Mr Antoni Peris, Spain)
F: (Room 3) EFPC Position Paper workshop PC & Chronic Cancer (Mr. Pim de Graaf, NL & Ms. Danica Rotar, Slovenia) Feedback presentation of Frank Buntinx, University of Leuven, Belgium

Break (30 min)

  • Second round (75 min)
G: (Room 2) Organisational frame-works for PHC centres , presentation Piero Salvadori and presentation Matteo Cecchi (Mr. Arthur Eyck, NL & Piero Salvadori, Italy)
H: (Room 3) EFPC Position Paper workshop PC & Care for Elderly (Ms. Fabrizia Lattanzio, Italy) 
 
Closing address by the host and EFPC (30 min)
 
 
Organizing Committee:

University of Nicosia
• Dr. Nicos Peristianis
• Dr. Wasileh Petro
• Dr. Edna Yamasaki
• Ms. Savoula Ghobrial
• Mr. John Mavris
European Forum for Primary Care
• Mr. Diederik Aarendonk
• Dr. Tatyana Pasenyuk-Protopapa
Ministry of Health Cyprus
• Dr. Andreas Polynikis
 
Conferences in the future
  Thank you for coming to Cyprus  
Introduction of the theme:
Health care systems in Europe struggle with inadequate coordination of care for people with chronic conditions. Moreover, there is a considerable evidence gap in treatment of chronic conditions, lack of self-management, variation in quality of care, lack of preventive care, increasing costs for chronic care and inefficient use of resources. In order to overcome these problems, several approaches to improve the management and coordination of chronic conditions have been developed in European health care systems.
Dissemination of best practices in interdisciplinary collaboration throughout Europe from the European Forum for Primary Care perspective will be the main goal of this conference, by answering the following key questions:
- How can health centres be community oriented and contribute to the wellbeing of the population they serve?
- Primary Care teams:  how is an interdisciplinary health-care team best suited to primary care? What is the current stage in their development and how do they function in practice? How can benefits be described and assessed, in particularly regarding interdisciplinary collaboration? Are there disadvantages to the team approach?
- What have been the developments in terms of new professions and distribution or delegation of responsibilities within Primary Care settings? What are the minimum levels of collaboration to ensure involvement in tackling problems at the family level?
- The optimal skill mix and its’ implementation! How can we ensure the educational foundations (competence and capacity) for the new and expanded professional roles? How can a primary care team best utilize the skills of each other?
- What can be the patients’ role in the interdisciplinary approach? Can non governmental patients’ platforms make critical contributions to improve quality of care?
All professionals active in the conference will be aware of the opportunities interdisciplinary collaboration and community orientation has in relation to Primary Care.