Optimising the organisation of family medicine practice. Selected abstracts from the 94th EGPRN conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May 2022

ABSTRACT

The mission of WONCA Europe is the development of General Pratice / Family Medicine (GP/FM) discipline in Region Europe by addressing the current challenges of health and healthcare. The theme of this meeting is "Optimising the organisation of family medicine practice' to accomplish this vision. When we checked the meaning of "organisation' in the Webster dictionary, the words "forming a business for a particular purpose,' "certain order to be found or used easily' and the "process of planning' emerged and attracted our attention. The crucial discussion describing primary care (PC) organisation was based on the same concepts (if we summarise the words as needs, structure and delivery) after many years.Today the authors consolidated several frameworks and defined (1) population needs;(2) organisation and structure of PC practices;(3) delivery of PC services and (4) patient and population health outcomes as the four domains and added connecting constructs to link the domains accessibility, appropriateness, productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, equity and integration. Knowledge about the relationship between structure and process (including the interpersonal and societal exchange/performance of GP/FP) and outcome derives from the organisational, behavioural and healthcare sciences. So we need to partner with interprofessional and multisectoral teams to evaluate detailed research on PC organisation.In EGPRN-Istanbul, we hope we will discuss weaknesses and strengths, opportunities and threats of PC organisation in different conditions and develop many approaches during this meeting under the light of well-planned and applied trials or controlled observational studies, evidence, collaboration and collectivity.