December 12th, 2003.
Location: Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC) Barcelona
(Notes in italics do not refer to items discussed at the time of the meeting, but to latter developments).


Those present:

Carlos Brotons (Spain), Ramon Ciurana (Spain), Ton Drenthen (The Netherlands), Andtre Franck (Belgium), Suleyman Gorpelioglu (Turkey), Eva Jurgova (Slovakia), Pilar Kloppe (Spain), Maxime Mancini (Switzerland), Arthur Mierzecki (Poland), Ingrid Pichler (Austria), Rosa Piñeiro (Spain), Livia Pullerits (Estonia), Mario R Sammut (Malta) and Mary Sheehan (Ireland).

Apologies received from delegates that could not attend to the meeting.

1. CB welcomes new delegates from Turkey and Belgium.
   
   
   
2. CB reads minutes of last meeting in June 19th in Ljubljana, and are adopted.
   
   
   
3. Europrev delegates fees updated are shown. There are some countries that did not receive the letter to the President of National Colleges. The letter will be send out again (with a copy to the delegate). There are some countries that have not replied to our insistent request. The list of countries is reviewed and it is decided to drop out some of them since for along time we have not received any response to our mails. Those countries are France, Germany, Iceland, and UK. Nevertheless, if some of them contact us again the will be very welcome to join us.
   
   CB reads the letter sent by Poul Brix Jensen, Director of the Denmark College of GPs: 'You have in a letter dated 23rd of October 2003 asked the Danish College of General Practitioners about financial support to Europrev. It has now been discussed in the executive at its meeting in November. The Danish college respect Europrev and its activities. But if Wonca Europe cannot afford regular funding to Europrev the College find that financial support should come from the member organisations of Europrev. The Danish college are paying Danish members of the three other Wonca networks for participating and also giving financial support when meetings are hold in Denmark.
   
   We do not have Danish representatives in Europrev so far why the College kindly say no to your request.
   
   In the future the College could be interested in membership of Europrev but of economical reasons not for the moment. The Danish College hope that Europrev will find solutions of the financial problems'.
   
   
   
4. Eva Jurgova comments she will try to contact somebody from UK, Lithuania, and Czech Republic.
   (After the meeting Eva sent a message to Carlos saying: I have contacted the English man - Dr. Paddy Quinn at the RCGP, as I I have promised, but unfortunately he can not represent the College in Europrev. But he has promised to let me know as soon as he will find an appropriate candidate from there. From Lithuania I have an offer - Dr. Egle Zebiene will send you the name of the candidate, and in Czech republic there is a big interest from the side of the Czech Society of General Practice, they will nominate the candidate and they will let me know, or they will contact you straight on soon.
   
   
   
5. WONCA 2004 in The Netherlands
   
   It is decided to organise two workshops:
   
   The first one will be the presentation of the Nutrition Guideline.
   
   After a heavy discussion concerning the guideline, it is decided (as a proposal of Mary) to run a pilot with 10 GPs per each country, asking if it is feasible, if other health professional besides GP could use it in the practice, and if it is useful to patients. A short questionnaire and the draft of the guideline will be sent to all the delegates, and they will do the pilot. It is said (as proposed by Ramon C.) that it is not necessary at this phase to translate into different languages. In the workshop it will be presented the results of this pilot and the prefinal version of the guideline. It is expected important feedback and interaction with people from the audience, and after the workshop the final version will be published.
   
   
   
6. It is decided that by the 15th of January we will receive suggestions from delegates concerning the actual version worked by Rosa, Mateja and Dominique. Ton will send the nutrition training manuals developed by the Dutch College, since it could be useful.
   
   The second workshop will be on screening for breast cancer. Ramon presents the draft of the workshop, and it is accepted although some aspects concerning the role of GPs should be included.
   (The abstracts for the two workshops were successfully submitted on time).
   
   
   
7. Concerning the World WONCA Conference in Orlando, next October 2004, it is decided to organise a workshop on the final version of the Nutrition Guideline. Interesting inputs from GPs all over the world could be very useful and positive for us.
   Max comments on the possibility to organise a workshop on tobacco, with Rick Bothelo, and Leo Pas.
   Carlos also comments on the possibility to present the final results of Europrev survey. It is accepted the proposal.
   
   
   
8. EUROPREV survey: the study was not accepted in Family Practice. It has been now submitted to Preventive Medicine.
   
   (Mario Sammut comments that the European Journal of General Practice (www.ejgp.com) is now indexed by the National Library of Medicine. If the EUROPREV survey is not accepted in the Preventive Medicine journal we can then try the EJGP).
   
   
   
9. European Commission Public Health Funding:
   
   Ton D. attended on behalf of Europrev the last meeting in the Netherlands, 'Mobilizing the Health Professions for Effective Alcohol Policy'. Ton will be the Europrev representative in this project and he will follow the development and the results. He will probably attend next meeting in Barcelona.
   
   Carlos B. attended the 9th European Nutrition Conference, last October 1st-4th, in Rome on behalf of Europrev, presenting "Dietary advice in clinical practice: the views of general practitioners in Europe". Chris van Weel was the chairman of the session.
   
   
   
10. Open discussion:
    
    Artur M comments on the creation of an Institute of health promotion in Poland where Maciek G-C and himself are involved.
    
    Ingrid P shows a health check form and distributed to all the assistants if they can review it and send comments.
    
    Max M comments on the development in Switzerland of a good guideline on tobacco cessation sponsored by pharmaceutical industry, and shows it as an example of a good collaboration with the industry.
    
    Carlos B comments that he may contact some Spanish companies and see if they could collaborate with Europrev in the future.
    
    Ingrid P distributes a 'Health Chep-UP questionnaire' and she would appreciate if she could received some comments.
    
    
    
11. Next meeting will be held in the Netherlands, next June 2004, at WONCA Europe. Ton D. will find out a place and date of the meeting and will inform Antonia.

Meeting ends at 20.30 minutes.