June 11th, 2002
Location: Royal College of General Practitioners. London.


Those present:

Carlos Brotons (Spain), Mateja Bulc (Slovenia), Ramon Ciurana (Spain), Ton Drenthen (The Netherlands), Pilar Kloppe (Spain), Eleftherios Thireos (Greece), Georgopoulou Cotni (Greece), Georgakila Heley (Greece), Maxime Mancini (Switzerland), Domenique Durrer (Switzerland), Leo Pas (Belgium), Rosa Piñeiro (Spain), Mario Sammut (Malta), Donatella Sghedoni (Italy), Eva Jurgova (Slovakia), Jasna Vuckach (Croatia),Giorgio Visentin (Italy), Olga y. Kurznetsova (Russia), Antonia Sánchez (Spain).

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

1. Carlos Brotons reads the minutes of the previous meeting, last November in Barcelona.
   
   
   
2. New delegates: a new delegate from Cyprus (Valia Markou) has been incorporated into the network.
   
   
   
3. EUROPREV survey: it is finished and Pilar Kloppe will present the final results at the WONCA conference. A draft will be prepared and circulated to all the delegates in order to submit it for publication. It is suggested to try to publish it in Family Practice.
   
   
   
4. The proposal to EGPRW for sponsorship was rejected, basically because the proposal did not represent a new project. However EGPRW it is willing to received research projects, and they encourage us to try again with new ones, or also, try to get some sponsorship from the European Society of GP/FM. It is agreed to submit a research proposal based on the development of a cancer prevention guide. At the Conference it is distributed a Spanish Guide for cancer prevention (as well as a guide for prevention of mental health disorders). This material can be used as baseline to prepare the proposal. In addition, it was agreed to prepare a proposal to EGPRW for sponsorship. Different topics are raised, and will be presented and discussed at the next meeting of EUROPREV: Obesity (Dominique), Tobacco (Leo), Cardiovascular Risk Estimation (Ton and Carlos), Cancer (Ramon and Pilar), and a Cardiovascular research project (Giorgio).
   
   
   
5. EUROPREV funding (membership): so far, we have received two membership registration from two national colleges (Belgium and Malta). Again, it is reinforced the idea of obtain as much as national colleges memberships in order to cover the expenses of EUROPREV (secretary, meetings, printing material,..).
   
   
   
6. It is mentioned the possibility to organise an open scientific meeting of EUROPREV,
   with a specific theme, in November 2003 in Barcelona. A proposal of them will be circulated and discussed at the next meeting of EUROPREV.
   
   
   
7. Next meeting: the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine is going to organise the next National Congress in Madrid, November 20-23. The organisers have invited us to attend the Congress and to organise our meeting there, in November 22.
   
   It is important that delegates send us as soon as possible their confirmation in order to book hotel accommodation. It is mentioned that it would be important to send an official invitation to all the delegates.
   
   

The meeting finishes at 19.30 minutes